Category: Amazon Machine Learning

Developing cloud skills and expertise across the workforce is a critical first step as organizations continue their cloud journeys. While cloud maturity is an iterative process, effective training and enablement is crucial for the success of this transformative journey. This blog highlights how organizations can upskill their workforce across five key cloud initiatives – migration, modernization, generative AI and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), security and resiliency, and cost optimization.

AWS Certification will introduce three new question types: ordering, matching, and case study. Combined with the existing multiple-choice questions and multiple-response questions, the new question types are designed to reduce your reading time and test additional critical concepts. The first exams to include these new question types are AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate. Learn more about each new question type.

In June, we launched 29 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 12 new generative AI digital courses (eight free and four paid), two new AWS Builder Labs, one new AWS Digital Classroom course, and a robust learning plan for aspiring machine learning engineers. For leaders, we launched a six-week generative AI learning experience in collaboration with the Udemy. We also announced two new AWS Certifications in AI and ML, with supporting exam prep materials.

The new learning program, Unlocking Generative AI Opportunities with AWS, developed in collaboration with the Udemy Business Leadership Academy, is uniquely designed to equip leaders across all industries with the generative AI knowledge and change management strategies they need to develop talent successfully and drive the digital transformation within their organizations. Now’s the time for you and your team to learn the what, why, and how behind generative AI.

In May, we launched 33 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including two new AWS Builder Labs, a new Digital Classroom course (Build Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases), a new Partner course (Generative AI on AWS Essentials (Business)), and localized versions of Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), Exam Prep: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional (DOP-C02), and Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02).

Amazon CodeWhisperer is a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI)-powered productivity tool that improves developer productivity and can serve as an accelerated learning path for cloud computing. Amazon CodeWhisperer uses machine learning (ML) to provide intelligent code suggestions in an integrated development environment (IDE). In this blog, we’ll explore three practical ways developers and cloud architects can use Amazon CodeWhisperer as an educational catalyst in their cloud learning journey.

Welcome to the March course launch blog. This month we launched eight new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including four new AWS Builder Labs and Generative AI Developer Kit. We also have three new, and one updated AWS Classroom Training courses—two of which have AWS Partner versions—including Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS. A reminder: registration is now open for the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam. You can begin preparing with curated exam prep resources, created by the experts at AWS, on AWS Skill Builder.

International Women’s Day honors the achievements of women worldwide and advocates for gender equality. This is the perfect opportunity to share a story that truly embodies the spirit of this significant occasion. In the traditionally male-dominated tech industry, a trio of women embarked on a remarkable journey at the recent Tech to the Rescue hackathon.

In February, we launched 22 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including new AWS Digital Classroom courses for annual subscribers, five new solution assignments to build generative AI skills via AWS Cloud Quest, and new prep courses for the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam.

Artificial intelligence (AI) itself may not be new, but the field was thrown into a new level of overdrive in late 2022 when the launch of ChatGPT brought generative AI and large language models (LLMs) quickly and irrevocably into the public’s consciousness. In September 2023, AWS released Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AI service that allows AWS developers to easily integrate generative AI models into their cloud projects. Learn how three IT professionals were all able to use AWS’s training resources to quickly come up to speed on Amazon Bedrock and put these technologies to use.