AWS Training and Certification Blog
Category: Technical How-to
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.
Boost your AWS proficiency with Solution-Focused Immersion Days
AWS Solutions-Focused Immersion Days are a series of events that are designed to educate you about AWS products and services and help you develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications in the cloud. Hands on labs provide you with an immersive experience in the AWS console, guided by AWS Solutions Architects and subject matter experts. Learn how you can sign up for these free events to build your AWS Cloud knowledge.
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, […]