AWS Generative AI Essentials: New learning now available on Coursera and edX

Using AI effectively isn’t just a nice-to-have skill—it’s essential for career growth, team and organizational success. AWS generative AI tools are optimizing workflows and spearheading new opportunities for groundbreaking innovations.

It’s time to be more productive with generative AI and AWS

The new AWS Generative AI Essentials course (now live on Coursera and edX) is the ideal entry point for those looking to use AI in their day-to-day development work. Whether you’re a student in the midst of finishing school and prepping to start a career, an early-career cloud professional, or someone on the search to find efficiency and productive gains for your organization, this course is a good on-ramp.

What makes this training particularly valuable is its focus on real-world application rather than theoretical concepts. You’ll learn to work with tools like Amazon Q Developer, which integrates directly into your IDE to accelerate coding tasks and troubleshooting, and Amazon Bedrock, which gives you access to powerful foundation models without requiring deep AI expertise.

Secure the AI skills that employers are seeking

By completing this course, you’ll add the know-how that will accelerate and amplify your use of AI at school or work:

• Develop Faster – Learn to use Amazon Q to generate code, troubleshoot issues, and create documentation faster.
• Build with AI to match your unique use case – Use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to connect AI models with your organization’s private data, helping you create relevant AI applications to help address your organization’s most pressing needs and opportunities.
• AI security is job zero – Learn to implement guardrails that help keep your AI apps secure, compliant, and synced with your business requirements.
  AI Workflow Automation – Build and deploy AI agents to perform complex tasks through orchestrated workflows, giving you time for the work that matters most to your success.
• Pick the right AI service for every development job – Practice and own the ability to choose the best AWS AI service based on your specific use case.

Move beyond generative AI theory and concepts and build hands-on with AWS

This course isn’t about sitting and passively watching videos. We go beyond theory and concepts and get you building hands-on exercises that match the scenarios you’ll encounter. You’ll see how organizations across industries—from sports organizations to marketing platforms to travel companies—are already using these same AWS services to transform their operations.

For early-career professionals and students, these generative AI skills are a must-have competitive advantage in the job market. For organizational learners, they are a catalyst to bringing innovation and efficiency gains to existing processes without onboarding and scaling specialized AI teams.

The future is about building with generative AI and you now have a seat at the table. This course provides the foundation you need to be part of this pivot—whether you’re looking to enhance your career prospects or advance your organization’s innovation initiatives. The time is now. Build the skills that will define the future of development. The perfect start is at your fingertips. Enroll and start AWS Generative AI Essentials (Coursera and edX) to learn how to use AWS generative AI services and start solving real business problems.