Solutions Architect or DevOps, which path actually fits how you think?

It comes down to individual preference. A Solutions Architect focuses more on planning, deploying, and managing customer cloud infrastructure using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, so you need to enjoy listening to customer pain points and proposing the most suitable, cost-effective solution. An AWS DevOps engineer builds on top of DevOps practices, working to ensure seamless developer and operations collaboration using tools for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment in the AWS cloud.

The deciding factor isn't the certification, it's which problems you'd rather own: the customer's trade-offs, or the delivery pipeline.