AWS Training and Certification Blog

Category: Technical How-to

Grow your cloud skills with 19 new hands-on AWS Builder Labs

We’ve released 19 new AWS Builder Labs this month, specifically geared to help individuals in developer, cloud architect, cloud engineer, and cloud administrator roles reinforce their learning across various topics including Containers, Developing, Serverless, Networking, Security and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

5 steps to build your skills for AWS IoT

To succeed in Industry 4.0, companies need to upskill and reskill their workers to maximize the benefits of disruptive technologies, in particular individuals who have traditionally focused on operational technology (OT) domains, such as plant managers, product managers, engineers, and architects. We’ll share five steps and associated resources for individuals in these roles to learn about AWS Cloud and AWS IoT services to skill up for Industry 4.0.

Addressing the diversity gap in engineering leadership

Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) is a non-profit organization that aims at addressing this gap by providing upskilling avenues and increasing the availability of women tech leaders as mentors. AWIT recently launched a collection of courses on Real-World Engineering Management, sponsored by AWS and available exclusively on Coursera.

Build AWS Mainframe Modernization skills with these new courses

As your organization starts to modernize its mainframe workloads, it’s important that the workforce has skills that are diverse and complementary, such as mainframe, mainframe modernization, and cloud skills. In order to help our customers and partners build skills to support their mainframe modernization with AWS journeys, we have launched 10 self-paced courses.

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.

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.

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, […]

Two new Twitch trainings to help grow your app building and machine learning skills

You’re invited to join one or both of our two newest, free Twitch training series: Let’s Ship It—with AWS, launching on Monday, August 23, and Quick Start on AWS: Machine Learning, launching on Tuesday, August 24. Designed for Twitch with developers of all skill levels in mind, these new training series mark the sixth and […]

Building your machine learning skill set for today’s rising demand

This blog is ideal for those new to ML who want to understand the foundational skills needed for ML and how to acquire them, as well as those who want to deepen their ML knowledge and expertise. For each, there are AWS Training, resources, and documentation to help you build your knowledge and comfortably participate […]

New training and resources to build skills in systems operations on AWS

Are you responsible for operating production environments, including systems and databases that support critical business operations? Do you need to administer and analyze multiple production environments and recommend novel solutions to improve availability, performance, and support ability? Do you see an opportunity to combine your deep technical knowledge with knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure? If […]