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

In January 2023, AWS Training and Certification released 20 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including a games-focused AWS Jam Journey for AWS Skill Builder subscribers, two new learning plans (and earn digital badges) for Solutions Architects and Game Developers, and updates to two AWS Certification exams.

10 study areas for the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty exam

In this blog, learn how an AWS Sr. Solutions Architect prepared for the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty exam, and the 10 areas you can study to prepare yourself to take this certification exam. Earning the credential will validate your expertise in designing data solutions and using analytics services to derive insights from data. This credential also helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.

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.

Life (science) in the cloud: Researchers dealing with petabytes of data become cloud experts

When Chris Dagdigian graduated with a degree in Biotechnology in 1995, the industry was poised to explode with innovation and possibility. There was only one problem, the explosion was being recorded using pen and paper. “Until that point scientists were documenting everything in notebooks,” he recalls. “As the research started to blossom, data volumes were starting to exceed what could reasonably be tracked in a handwritten lab book.”

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.

The value of data and pursuing the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty certification

Gain tips and guidance from four AWS Solutions Architects for how you can build your skills and expertise in data analytics and pursue the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty certification.

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Earn new badges by building your cloud storage knowledge

AWS Training and Certification provides flexible Storage learning plans through AWS Skill Builder to help you build in-demand cloud storage knowledge by progressing from foundational to advanced concepts. AWS Storage digital learning badges are available to showcase your knowledge once you score 80% or higher on the associated online assessment for any of these learning plans.

New courses, resources, and updates from AWS Training and Certification in December 2021

Editor’s note: Below is a summary of new courses, AWS Certification news, and AWS Partner information from AWS Training and Certification for December 2021. Dive in and explore more new and updated training content—four new storage courses, AWS Step Functions courses, an AWS Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) course, AWS Elemental courses, and security governance […]

Deploying serverless application in Amazon S3 on episode 5 of AWS Dev Hour: Building Modern Applications

I can’t believe we’ve passed the halfway mark in our eight-week series, AWS Dev Hour: Building Modern Applications, on Twitch. This free, interactive series is designed for developers of all skill levels who want to get hands-on experience building an end-to-end serverless application in the AWS Cloud. If you’re just learning about this series, it’s […]

Three new digital courses for Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. You can use Amazon S3 to store and protect data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore activities, archiving, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data […]