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Category: Artificial Intelligence

How to become a generative AI builder, starting at square one

Imagine diving into the incredible world of artificial intelligence (AI), where anyone can become a generative AI builder. The journey begins with a curious mindset and an openness to the world of AI. This blog is your guide to transforming from a curious beginner to a proficient generative AI builder using AWS.

New courses and certification offerings from AWS Training and Certification in December 2023

Dive into our 21 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including seven new game-based and interactive trainings and certification preparation courses to help you build AWS Cloud expertise, from AWS Industry Quest: Manufacturing and Automotive, AWS Card Clash, to the new AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam prep resource, AWS Escape Room. You can also recertify for your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner by playing the beta AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner Recertify – no need to take an exam. We also have four new learning plans with digital badges to guide your knowledge-building, and for executives, we’ve added cloud education for Chief Human Resource Officers and for executives wanting to build their security know-how.

Orangetheory Fitness: transforming workouts through data excellence

Leveraging AWS technology, working with AWS experts and upskilling its team with AWS Training, Orangetheory Fitness enabled rapid growth and the introduction of new workout types based on data from millions of members for personalized, smarter workouts.

New AWS skills initiatives help APAC get AI-ready

From Japan to Indonesia, and further south to New Zealand, organizations and individuals from diverse communities are actively embracing and integrating the latest and most advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to improve their lives and work. AWS Training and Certification is helping them build the skills they need to innovate today and tomorrow.

Top 4 reasons to launch your cloud career with AWS Cloud Institute

As cloud technology prevails, the need for skilled professionals who can build and innovate on the cloud is paramount. AWS Cloud Institute is a virtual cloud-skills training program that will help you launch your career as a cloud developer in as little as one year – regardless of your technical background. Learn four reasons why the timing’s right to launch your cloud career with AWS Cloud Institute.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in October 2023

In October, we launched 13 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including a new learning plan and digital badge for Migration, a new AWS Jam Journey for Game Serverless and Analytics, a free digital course to build generative AI skills with Amazon Bedrock, and a new 12-month, prescriptive virtual training program to build job-ready cloud developer skills called AWS Cloud Institute. And, AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner is now available in Japanese.

Gain practical experience building with Amazon CodeWhisperer through AWS Jam

AWS Jam is a practical, gamified learning experience that challenges individuals or teams to build and apply their AWS Cloud skills to solve real-world, open-ended problems using AWS services in a sandbox AWS environment. If you are an AWS builder, you’ve likely heard about Amazon CodeWhisperer, an artificial intelligence (AI) coding companion that is trained on billions of lines of code and can generate code suggestions so you can build applications faster and more securely. We’re excited to bring these two things together, giving builders a new way to learn how to use Amazon CodeWhisperer and increase their productivity.

A finance associate’s race to become a PETRONAS machine learning champion

How PETRONAS’ AWS Skills Guild propelled Aiyna Nazieha Muhamad to become the first female PETRONAS Exclusive AWS Virtual DeepRacer winner — with the fastest time ever recorded in Malaysia. Since 2019, PETRONAS, Malaysia’s national petroleum company, has been going through an extensive digital transformation, embedding data, analytics, and automation into almost every aspect of the […]

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in September 2023

This month we launched 16 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including six AWS Builder Labs—two of which focus on skills development for generative AI—and two new AWS Jam Journeys focused on security challenges from AWS re:Inforce 2023. We have a new AWS Certification exam, currently in beta: AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate. For new-to-cloud learners, ages 18+, dive into a new six-course series to help you build professional skills. Plus, take advantage of the 7-day free trial of AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription.

New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in July 2023

In July, we released 52 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare, AWS Cloud Quest: Networking, 19 AWS Builder Labs, and new exam prep for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. For c-suite executives, explore courses to help you build knowledge of the capabilities of cloud. We also have two new trainings exclusive to AWS Partners in sales roles.