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Thank you for your message, Peter.
Take note that from the get-go, we do not offer lifetime access in the Tutorials Dojo Portal, even before we started our operations in 2020. All courses and practice exams have ample labels showing that we only provide limited-time access to the product.
These practice exams, video courses, eBooks, and other reviewers require constant updates, and those updates don’t come cheap. Almost every quarter, or every month even, AWS pushes new updates on its certification exam content. One example of this is the new AWS SysOps Exam (SOA-C02) which will be renamed to AWS CloudOps (SOA-C03) next month. This entails a massive amount of effort on our team to update the current content and create new practice questions, video lessons, admin tasks et cetera; on top of the monthly server costs and staff salaries to keep the site running.
Some platforms, such as Udemy, have an evergreen model that offers lifetime access, but that one isn’t sustainable and unfair to most content creators. It’s like telling the creators to answer user inquiries, churn out new content every quarter (for life), spend on cloud costs forever for a one-time fee of $14. That’s clearly unsustainable, even if we slightly raise the price to let’s say $16 or $18 as your suggested.
You’ll rarely see any “lifetime access” to digital products nowadays, especially the ones that require constant updates, like these cloud certification reviewers. Even Pluralsight and Udemy Pro have their respective subscription models and limited-time content access.
Demanding lifetime access to a product that requires regular updates is akin to paying for a meal from a fast-food chain ONCE and demanding a refill of your drink and unlimited food FOR LIFE. That seems like modern slavery to me.
Regards,
Jon Bonso
