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Learn all about AWS Skill Builder Trivia, a new tool that transforms knowledge reinforcement into a fun, competitive experience. Designed to create and deliver real-time multi-participant competitions, AWS Skill Builder Trivia offers an interactive format for knowledge checks, icebreakers, and team challenges that strengthen understanding of key cloud concepts.

Three former data center technicians share their journey to becoming AWS Solutions Architects, offering a roadmap for IT professionals looking to transform their careers. From learning essential compute concepts to gaining hands-on experience with AWS services, this blog post provides valuable insights and resources for those ready to level up their skills in cloud computing.

Discover how JC Boissy transformed from a cloud novice to an award-winning game developer through AWS Cloud Institute. His journey from managing cloud projects to creating CloudJack-21, an innovative serverless card game that earned recognition in the 2024 AWS Game Builder Challenge, showcases the power of structured cloud-skills training and hands-on experience.

Discover how AWS re/Start and Momentum are creating pathways for women in tech through their collaborative workforce development program. Learn about the upcoming opportunities to engage with newly certified AWS Certified Cloud Practitioners and how your organization can contribute to building a more inclusive tech future while strengthening your technical teams.

To help organizations implement Well-Architected best practices consistently while they expand, we’ve launched Well-Architected for Enterprises, a new free digital course. Designed for technical professionals who architect, build, and operate AWS solutions at scale, this intermediate level course will help you optimize your cloud architecture while aligning to your business goals.

In January 2025, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including two new AWS Jam Journeys, additional language availability for Exam Prep materials in support of AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer certification exams, as well as a new AWS Builder Lab, Sustainability Strategies with AWS Compute Workload, designed to help identify sustainability strategies using AWS services and tools to optimize usage and costs in an AWS environment.

The journey from AWS Certified AI Practitioner to AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty offers a structured approach that helps you grow—from understanding fundamental AI concepts to handling complex ML projects in a cloud environment. By using resources like AWS Skill Builder, AWS Educate and the Udemy Business Leadership Academy cohort programs, you can accelerate your learning and stay ahead of the competition in the fast-moving AI/ML landscape.

We’re both experienced AWS professionals and have witnessed firsthand how cloud technologies can accelerate mission-critical initiatives and solve complex challenges in regulated industries. AWS Certifications have been an important part of our respective career progression and we’re passionate about sharing our certification experiences to help others. This blog outlines our AWS Certification learning journeys, the impact on our careers, and our best practices to prepare for an AWS Certification exam.

To help organizations validate AI and machine learning (ML) skills within their existing staff and when hiring new employees, and to help individuals showcase their knowledge and practical skills in AI and ML, we launched two new AWS Certifications: AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate, with associated exam prep materials for each. Learn about two new limited-time incentives we’re offering to help you earn one or both of these new certifications.

AWS Jam is a unique form of immersive learning in the cloud computing domain that offers an engaging approach to developing AWS skills. This blog post explores the inner workings of AWS Jam and examines the reasons why this innovative learning experience is ideal for cloud enthusiasts, professionals, and organizations alike.