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Category: Announcements

Updated AWS Certified Developer – Associate: Registration now open

Registration is now open for the updated AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam. The first day to take the updated AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam is February 28, 2023. The changes to the updated exam are not significant and reflect changes in trends, the industry landscape, and the work practices of cloud professionals. If you need to re-certify, you have the option to retake the current or updated AWS Certified Developer – Associate, or upgrade to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, which will automatically re-certify the AWS Certified Developer – Associate.

How the AWS Storage Data Migration learning plan helped a Sr. Solutions Architect and AWS Instructor refresh his skills

During AWS Storage Day 2022, the AWS Storage team announced three new digital learning badges by AWS Training and Certification on AWS Skill Builder, including the AWS Learning: Data Migration badge. This badge, which is associated with the Storage Learning Plan: Data Migration, demonstrates an individual’s knowledge of AWS Storage services for creating, managing, and architecting highly available storage solutions. Learn more about building your data migration skills with this learning plan in order to earn the latest digital badge.

IT skills training, certifications benefit both organizations and employees 

In this blog, we’ll recap the key findings from the 2022 Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary report, in particular the impacts of the IT skills gap, the benefits of training and certification to employees and organizations, and data showcasing which training modalities have the greatest impact.

New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in December 2022

AWS Training and Certification courses and offerings in December 2022 include AWS Industry Quest: Financial Services, a fourth learning path for AWS Jam Journey, a sixth role for AWS Cloud Quest, and 13 AWS Builder Labs. There are seven, free, fundamental-level digital courses; two classroom courses about planning and managing databases on AWS and Amazon SageMaker Studio; two AWS Partner courses about security essentials and AWS GovCloud (US); and an AWS Certification update about the availability of online Mandarin-speaking proctors in Mainland China.

Learn to build, train, and iterate machine learning models faster with new AWS course

For experienced data scientists working with disparate data science tools, Amazon SageMaker Studio provides an integrated set of ML tools in a single interface. Our new three-day, advanced-level, virtual classroom course, Amazon SageMaker Studio for Data Scientists, will help you develop the skills to increase productivity at every stage of the ML lifecycle using SageMaker Studio.

New professional certificate pathway on Coursera: build cloud solutions architect expertise

Are you trying to figure out how to build the skills to become a cloud architect or solutions architect? The AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate on Coursera is a new Professional Certificate to help you get job-ready in less than a year through a combination of hands-on demos, quizzes, assessments, exercises, video walk-throughs, and graded projects. It will also help you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

Dive into interactive learning built for your industry with AWS Industry Quest

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS Industry Quest, a new interactive, game-based learning experience to help individuals and organizations develop the skills they need to build solutions for common use cases in their industry. Starting today, professionals and teams can play AWS Industry Quest: Financial Services to learn and build solutions for fraud prevention, data lakes for financial services, serverless deposit accounts, and more—with more industries to come.

New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in November 2022

Check out the new courses and offerings from AWS Training and Certification in November 2022: our third learning path for AWS Jam Journey and 12 digital courses to help you learn about migration to AWS, Amazon Detective, Amazon ECR, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Connect, and modern data analytics (for AWS Partners). We also have an updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam, and an exam prep course for AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty.

Build your cloud skills at AWS re:Invent 2022

Are you looking for ways to accelerate your cloud skills and make valuable new connections? The 11th annual AWS re:Invent conference is almost here, and we hope you’ll join us in Las Vegas from November 28 through December 2. As always, the AWS Training and Certification team will be on hand to answer your questions, […]

Learn how to build Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS

Our collection of instructor-led training courses, called the Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS, teaches data teams and developers how to build a truly modern data analytics solution on AWS. You will learn how to use AWS for data movement, data storage, big data analytics, data lakes, streaming analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning (ML).