New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in June 2024

Welcome to June’s post announcing new training and certification updates to help equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our May course update? Check it out here.

This month, we launched 29 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 12 new generative AI digital courses (eight free and four paid), two new AWS Builder Labs, one new AWS Digital Classroom course, and a robust learning plan for aspiring machine learning engineers. For leaders, we launched a six-week generative AI learning experience in collaboration with the Udemy Business Leadership Academy. We also announced two new AWS Certifications, AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate, with supporting exam prep materials.

Learners will notice a new, intuitive dashboard in AWS Skill Builder, with personalized recommendations, new and enhanced search and discovery features, and more. Available in English, with additional languages to follow.

New AWS Skill Builder Subscription features

AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally for individuals and teams and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including 1,000+ interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges. AWS Digital Classroom courses dive deep with expert instruction and are available with Individual annual subscription and Team subscription.

Check out the newest course and learning plan additions to AWS Skill Builder subscription:

AWS Builder Labs 

• Intermediate:

  • Lab – Build with Amazon Neptune
  • Lab – Monitoring Micro-Service Architectures with AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Digital Classroom

• Digital Classroom – AWS Migration Essentials

Paid Digital Training (with Labs)

• Intermediate:

  • No-code Machine Learning and Generative AI on AWS (With Labs)

• Advanced:

  • AWS ML Engineer Associate 1.1 Collect, Ingest, and Store Data
  • AWS ML Engineer Associate 1.2 Transform Data
  • AWS ML Engineer Associate 1.3 Validate Data and Prepare for Modeling

Paid Learning Plan

• AWS ML Engineer Associate Learning Plan (includes labs)

AWS Certification exam preparation and updates

AWS has announced two new AWS Certifications: AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate. Beta exams for both certifications are available in English and Japanese, and beta registration opens August 13, 2024.

Use one of our four-step Exam Prep Plans with materials developed by the experts at AWS to go from start to AWS Certified. Learners who enroll in the Exam Prep Plan now will automatically be enrolled in additional courses as they become available.

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Designed for business professionals, AWS Certified AI Practitioner allows you to showcase your knowledge in leveraging AI to unlock opportunities for your organization like generating tailored education content, providing personalized investment advice, and more. Exam prep materials include:

• Standard Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) features eight new training courses including Fundamentals of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and Exploring Artificial Intelligence Use Cases and Applications.
• Enhanced Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) includes everything in the standard plan, plus AWS Skill Builder subscriber content, such as AWS Builder Labs, game-based learning, an official pretest, and more exam-style questions.

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

Designed for IT and cloud professionals, the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate certification allows you to showcase your technical ability to scale AI models for real time usage. Exam prep materials include:

• Standard Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) includes free training courses.
• Enhanced Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) includes everything in the standard plan, plus AWS Skill Builder subscriber content such as Collect, Ingest, and Store Data and Transform Data courses, game-based learning, AWS Builder Labs, an official pretest, and more exam-style questions.

Free Digital Training on AWS Skill Builder

AWS Skill Builder offers access to 600+ free digital courses and learning plans to learners of all skill levels in 200+ countries and territories.

This month, we launched the following new, free digital learning plans and digital courses:

Free Digital Learning Plans

• Fundamental:

  • Amazon Q – Generative AI-powered Assistant Learning Plan
  • AWS Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Learning Plan

Free Digital Courses

• Fundamental:

  • Fundamentals of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Exploring Artificial Intelligence Use Cases and Applications
  • Responsible Artificial Intelligence Practices
  • Developing Machine Learning Solutions
  • Developing Generative Artificial Intelligence Solutions
  • Essentials of Prompt Engineering
  • Optimizing Foundation Models
  • Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
  • Generative BI with Amazon Q in Quicksight – Getting Started
  • Amazon Q Developer Getting Started

• Intermediate:

  • Discover and Assess On-Premises Database Fleet with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
  • Using AWS Mainframe Modernization Replatform with Micro Focus Packaged Deployment on Amazon EC2
  • No-code Machine Learning and Generative AI on AWS

AWS Digital Training from AWS Training Partners

• Fundamental for executives/leaders:

  • Unlocking GenAI Opportunities with AWS

AWS Training for Partners

• Fundamental:

  • AWS Partner: Generative AI Sales
  • Updated! AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials