BOG AAS v TESU ASNSM CS

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A large majority of IT jobs count "experience" by treating 2 years of school to 2-4 years experience. With 7 years experience, that pushes me past the decade mark. I needed 6 years to qualify for my current job, but with an AS it would of been 3. I just don't see me having the bandwidth to cover all the material in a B.S. even over the next year. Even with the AS i was anticipating 1 year with only a couple hours a week. The majority of WGU cert's are worthless as far as hiring mangers go. Only the big name certs (AWS, VMWare, MCSE, CCNA/P) are actually going to matter.

How much time are people dedicating a day to finish WGU quickly?

I just can't wrap my head around the idea of being able to get an AWS SysOps cert alone in 3 months, let alone a BS. And then people that need to learn VMware, Azure, all these other things I just can't see how it's humanly possible for people to finish something like this so fast.

Most people on this forum who are doing WGU already have many years of experience, so they are coming in with certs and knowledge.  Meaning they aren't learning VMware from scratch, they already have a cert, or have used the product, or whatever.

My husband worked at VMWare for a long time, and has a couple of certs, and then went and got his AWS cert.  He had a CCNA previously, he could probably study for it before starting at WGU.  He'd probably get his A+ Cert through WGU-Academy ($150/mo) so that it wouldn't slow him down once he was enrolled.  He'd figure out which 30cr to get the most quickly at WGU, then get everything else other ways, and probably finish well before the 6months was over.

I think I'm going to pass on WGU. I've got years of experience and I'm a VMWare/Nutanix Hyperconverged Admin and I've worked Ops for a large cloud provider. Even still, the AWS Solution Architect would be difficult. AWS SysOps is one of hardest even for AWS folks with years under there belt. Add an Azure Admin. Associate cert on that and there's no way it humanly possible to do that quick & effectively. Years of experience won't matter when they're asking small, ever changing details for 3 essentially disparate technologies .

Any hiring manager that see that many certs on someones resume that fast is not going to take you seriously and that's why WGU is a waste to me. I'd rather have an Architect cert in Azure/AWS/VMware or other specialization instead of wasting neurons on all three.

If others can pull it off and make it work for them, go for it. It's not for me. Those certs won't help, and may harm, your prospects in the interview. I'd leave all but the most prestigious off of my resume. My plan is COSC. I've got a call with admissions today to see if they can give me a customized degree tuned to my specialization in my role and industry: BIS Industrial Automation/Info Systems/Logistics or some similar combination and have a dual purpose degree.
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You're not actually getting those certs with the degree; you can use them to fulfill requirements if you already have those certs, but they aren't part of the degree.  I was just showing how people get through it quickly, by using what they already have to get past stuff they already know.