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New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in January 2025

Happy New Year and welcome to January’s post announcing new training course launches and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions.

Missed our December course update? Check it out here.

This month, 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 Associate 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.

New AWS Skill Builder subscription features

AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges. Select plans offer access to AWS Digital Classroom courses to dive deep with expert instruction. AWS Digital Classroom courses dive deep with expert instruction and are available with Individual annual subscription and Team subscription.

Check out the newest additions to AWS Skill Builder subscription:

AWS Builder Labs

AWS Builder Labs help you learn cloud skills, hands-on, with practice in the AWS Management Console. Learn at your own pace with 200+ AWS Builder Labs, available with an AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription and Team subscription.

Experience our newest lab:

AWS Jam

Verify your building skills with an AWS Jam Journey challenge. You’ll solve real-world, open-ended problems in an AWS Console environment, with only clues to guide you.

AWS Certification exam preparation and updates

Exam prep

Prepare for AWS Certification exams with confidence, following 4-step plans on AWS Skill Builder. Each plan includes free content such as practice question sets and enhanced content, via subscription, like official practice exams, self-paced labs, and game-based learning.

AWS Classroom Training

AWS Classroom Training offers live classes with instructors who teach you in-demand cloud skills and best practices using a mix of presentations, discussion, and hands-on labs. Ask questions, work through solutions in person, and get feedback from AWS-accredited instructors with deep technical knowledge. This month, we launched Generative AI Essentials on AWS. This one-day course provides a solid foundation in generative AI, covering key concepts, use cases, and AWS services, and is especially useful for business analysts, product managers, project managers, and/or line-of-business managers – who are using, will use, or make decisions to use AI technologies.

AWS Digital Training from AWS Training Partners