AWS Training courses for AWS Partners
Build AWS Cloud skills with courses designed exclusively for AWS Partners
Available exclusively to AWS Partners, our digital and classroom training is designed to provide partners with a technical advantage that can help them better serve their customers. Explore our partner-exclusive training options below.
Built by AWS experts for partners in business, technical, and professional services roles, these courses can help partners of all experience levels build AWS Cloud skills on their own schedule.
Accreditation courses
These courses teach business- and technical-focused fundamentals of AWS. Successful course and assessment completion earns you an accreditation to help you grow professionally and satisfy one of your partner organization's AWS Partner Tier Knowledge requirements.
Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.
AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business)
The course provides best practices for co-selling with AWS, including a framework, tools, and funding benefits for AWS Partners. Learn what drives customer cloud adoption and how to overcome common customer objections. Understand the business value of cloud and what set AWS apart.
This course replaces AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business).
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
This training provides AWS Partners with fundamental, technical knowledge of AWS cloud computing, global infrastructure, services, common solutions, migration, security, and compliance. Upon successful completion of all assessments in this course, you will earn Accreditation as an AWS Technical Professional.
AWS Partner: Cloud Economics
This course introduces partners to the benefits of migrating their customers to the AWS Cloud. Partners will learn about cost savings and data center economics in relation to cloud computing.
Digital | 2.5 hours
AWS Partner: Business courses
Explore our partner-exclusive, digital and classroom solutions training options for business audiences.
Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.
AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor.
AWS Partner: Building your Business with AWS for Executives (Business)
This executive-level course is designed specifically for APN Consulting Partner executives who are new the AWS Cloud. Learners will explore what it takes to transition from a traditional IT sales model to profitability-delivering, value-added services for AWS customers. Partners with business in the public sector should enroll in the Public Sector version of this course.
AWS Partner: AWS for Microsoft Workloads (Business)
In this course, you will learn about the benefits of moving Microsoft workloads to AWS. This course is a non-technical, non-competitive training for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. Partners have the option to take this course with an instructor or online. This live classroom course concludes with a comprehensive digital assessment.
AWS Partner: Amazon Connect (Business)
This course introduces the business benefits of setting up a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect. You will learn about the Amazon Connect Partner Program, as well as how to solve customer challenges and discuss the value proposition and pricing model of Amazon Connect to customers.
Digital | 2.5 hours
AWS Partner: Digital Workplace on AWS (Business)
Digital | 2 hours
AWS Partner: Advanced Migration and Modernization Sales Training
In this course, you'll learn the best practices to adopt as an advanced migration and modernization seller with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You'll also hear directly from AWS experts and learn from their experience to develop and to implement different sales strategies that you can use in the future.
Digital | 2.5 hours
AWS Partner: Data Analytics on AWS (Business)
Learn AWS recommended best practices for effective business discovery conversations, how to align high-level data analytics solutions to customers’ important business initiatives, and how to qualify and validate data analytics business opportunities. In addition, a practice plan will be provided which will be a blueprint for outlining partner 12-month strategies and goals.
AWS Partner: IoT on AWS (Business)
This course provides an overview of current market trends and AWS products and services for IoT. Partners will learn how to describe the AWS IoT value proposition, identify and qualify IoT opportunities, handle customer objections, discuss pricing considerations, and accelerate IoT adoption.
AWS Partner: Migrating to AWS (Business)
This course focuses on the value proposition of migrating IT workloads to the AWS Cloud and building a migration practice with AWS. Partners will learn the three phases of a migration: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate and Modernize; how to build a business case; and the business drivers and sales approach for migrations.
AWS Partner: Machine Learning on AWS (Business)
In this course, you’ll learn how to identify and qualify customer machine learning (ML) opportunities, how to help customers navigate the ML solution-building process, and how to use that experience to build an AWS ML solutions practice.
AWS Partner: Security Governance at Scale (Business)
This course covers how to qualify customer opportunities around security governance at scale. You’ll learn about AWS account management, cost control, security, and compliance through automation—along with best practices for establishing an automated, simplified, and secure framework for governance at scale.
AWS Partner: Analytics on AWS – Sales Best Practices
In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing opportunities in AWS analytics services and solutions. It covers basic analytics concepts, introduces core AWS services, and provides practical resources to help you begin working with customers.
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: Windows on AWS – Sales Best Practices
In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing Windows on AWS opportunities. The course covers common customer use cases and resources available to help you accelerate customer opportunities
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: Modern Applications on AWS – Sales Best Practices
In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing opportunities around modern applications on AWS. It covers three customer use case scenarios, how to anticipate potential barriers, and how to engage AWS Partner resources so you can start building your customer pipeline.
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: Migration Business Case
In this advanced-level course, you’ll learn methodologies to build more effective business cases to help customers understand the value of migrating to the cloud. You will explore three types of analyses that pull together the business case for moving to AWS – Business value analysis, Directional business case, and Detailed business case.
AWS Partner: AWS GovCloud (US) Essentials (Business)
This course course provides a comprehensive, fundamental understanding of AWS GovCloud (US) and why several types of customers can benefit from this service. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at AWS Partners interested in gaining a non-technical understanding of AWS GovCloud.
Digital | 2 hours
AWS Partner: Machine Learning (Sales)
This intermediate level course shares the same artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) use cases and customer-engagement best practices AWS uses to train its internal sales teams. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals who want to have business-level conversations with buyer personas and identify qualified customer opportunities for key AI/ML use cases.
Digital | 1 hour
AWS Partner: Pricing and Licensing
This fundamental course covers how to explain the basics of AWS pricing and licensing to customers, including the fundamental AWS pricing philosophy, pricing components, and pricing models for AWS core services. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a non-technical knowledge of AWS, use cases, and common solutions.
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: Security and Compliance
This fundamental course covers fundamental of AWS cloud security and compliance, including how security is managed with AWS, how to respond to customer concerns or objections about security and compliance in cloud adoption and how to identify resources for additional information. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a non-technical knowledge of AWS, use cases, and common solutions.
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: AWS for Data (Sales)
This intermediate course covers the business value of data solutions, points of entry in customer accounts, call simulations with key buyer personas, and AWS programs to progress opportunities—the same best practices AWS uses to train its internal sales teams. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to have business-level conversations with buyer personas and identify qualified customer opportunities for key data use cases.
Digital | 70 minutes
AWS Partner: Generative AI on AWS Essentials (Business)
This fundamental course shares the same use cases and customer engagement best practices we use to train our internal AWS Sales teams. You will learn the basics of generative AI, examine key customer use cases and personas, and learn how generative AI on AWS helps customers reinvent their businesses. Upon passing the assessment, you will earn the Generative AI Essentials digital badge. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization and any other partner learners who are interested in gaining a non-technical knowledge of the basics of generative AI on AWS.
Digital | 65 minutes
AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials
This fundamental course covers how to engage customers in migration discussions and use AWS Migration Acceleration Program to benefit migration opportunities. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who have end customers that might benefit from migrating to AWS.
Digital | 80 minutes
AWS Partner: Selling Into the Public Sector
This fundamental course covers how to engage with and sell AWS services to public sector customers. We recommend the course for customer-facing, alliance leads or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a basic understanding of the public sector.
Digital | 40 minutes
AWS Partner: Sales Essentials
This fundamental course covers basic concepts of cloud services, how to articulate business value, handle common customer objections, co-sell with AWS, pricing and licensing, security and compliance, and migrations. There are two optional modules on selling into the public and lead generation workshop. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to understand the AWS value proposition and have effective sales conversations with customers.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Modern Applications (Sales)
This course helps you gain non-technical knowledge of AWS, modern application use cases, and common solutions to facilitate business-level conversations with key buyer personas. In this course you’ll work through a use case, access presentations, online resources, call simulations, and complete knowledge checks, while learning the same customer-engagement best practices AWS uses to train its own internal sales teams.
Digital | 30 minutes
AWS Partner: Technical courses
Explore our partner-exclusive, digital and classroom solutions training options for technical audiences.
Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.
AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor.
AWS Partner: Security Essentials (Technical)
This course covers fundamental Amazon Web Services (AWS) security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how to secure network access to your AWS infrastructure. We recommend it for security professionals with minimal to no working knowledge of AWS.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Amazon Connect (Technical)
Partners will learn the technical details of provisioning, configuring, and managing Amazon Connect for a contact center.
Digital | 1.5 hours
AWS Partner: Digital Workplace on AWS (Technical)
This course provides a technical introduction to AWS End User Computing (EUC) services Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0. You will learn how to answer common technical questions when discussing these solutions and how to provision, configure, and manage these services.
Digital | 4 hours
AWS Partner: Migration Essentials (Technical)
Formerly AWS Partner: Migrating to AWS (Technical). This technical course provides APN Partner solutions architects with methodologies and best practices for applying and executing migration readiness assessment and planning activities, and how to perform migrations by employing migration tools and services.
AWS Partner: VMWare Cloud on AWS (Technical)
This course provides a technical introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS. It covers the core architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS’s software-defined data center (SDDC) service, plus how foundational VMware compute, storage, networking, security, and management components interact with AWS services.
AWS Partner: Containers on AWS (Technical)
This course provides AWS Partners with an introduction to AWS container solutions, including container platforms, benefits, and use cases. The course introduces the range of AWS container services and adjacent technologies, including an exploration of AWS design considerations and best practices.
AWS Partner: Modernizing Your Application on AWS
This course covers how to modernize your software application using a scalable, self-healing architecture on AWS. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) you will learn design patterns for optimizing applications using AWS managed services. You will also review how to incorporate a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for deployment.
Digital | 2.5 hours
AWS Partner: IoT on AWS (Technical)
This technical course provides an overview of the current market trends and ecosystem of the IoT segment. Partners will learn about the AWS IoT platform and various AWS IoT services, IoT solution lifecycle and common design patterns for deploying AWS IoT services and how to help accelerate customer IoT adoption.
AWS Partner: Data Analytics on AWS (Technical)
Partners will learn how to successfully engage with data-driven customers, discuss five data analytics technical solutions, and make architectural decisions based on AWS-recommended best practices. After completing this course, partners will understand how to build a serverless data lake architecture using an AWS CloudFormation template while making business decisions using the Data Flywheel approach.
AWS Partner: Security Governance at Scale (Technical)
This course covers AWS-recommended cloud security best practices for establishing continuous governance and management at scale. Partners will be able to help their customers scale with agility and innovation while providing the visibility, control, and governance to protect sensitive data and systems.
AWS Partner: Migrating Your Application to AWS (Technical)
In this course designed for AWS ISV Partners, you will learn the technical fundamentals and best practices of migrating your application from on-premises deployments to a single-tenant, highly available AWS Cloud solution.
Digital | 4.5 hours
AWS Partner: Advanced Migrating to AWS (Technical)
This advanced course provides prescriptive guidance on how to migrate workloads at scale, and covers common migration patterns and challenges of large-scale migrations. You’ll learn how to identify use cases for re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-factoring legacy applications to the AWS Cloud—and how to determine which applications are good candidates for automated modernization.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Building Data Lakes on AWS (Technical)
In this course, you'll learn how to build an operational data lake that supports analysis of both structured and unstructured data. You'll also learn the components and functionality of the services involved in creating a data lake. You'll use AWS Lake Formation to build a data lake, AWS Glue to build a data catalog, and Amazon Athena to analyze data.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Well-Architected Best Practices (Technical)
This course is designed to provide a deep dive into the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its 5 pillars. The Well-Architected Framework enables you to make informed decisions about your customers architectures in a cloud-native way and understand the impact of design decisions that are made.
AWS Partner: Advanced AWS Well-Architected Best Practices (Technical)
This course provides an AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews simulation and instructor-led group exercises and discussions regarding prioritizing and solutioning risks. The content focuses on teaching learners how to prepare proposals on high and medium risk issues using the AWS Well-Architected Tool.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Security Best Practices (Technical)
In this one-day instructor-led course, you will learn how to help your customers secure their compute, storage, networking resources on AWS Cloud. You will also learn about logging and alerting, which are key elements of maintaining the highest levels of cloud security.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Building Data Analytics Solutions using Amazon Redshift (Technical)
The course focuses on the data collection, ingestion, cataloging, storage, and processing components of the analytics pipeline using Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse service. You will learn to integrate Amazon Redshift with a data lake to support both analytics and machine learning workloads and how to apply security, performance, and cost management best practices.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Building Batch Data Analytics Solutions (Technical)
Learn how to build batch data analytics solutions using Amazon EMR, the industry-leading cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, to optimize cost and performance.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Building Streaming Data Analytics Solutions (Technical)
Learn to design and implement streaming data analytics solutions using Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) with an expert AWS instructor.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Mainframe Discovery Approach and Questions (Technical)
This fundamental level course covers how to better gather required technical information for each modernization activity. We recommend the course for technical learners who want to understand how to use the prescribed discovery approach of Mainframe questions assessment in the AWS Assessment Tool.
Digital | 1 hour
AWS Partner: End-to-End Blu Age Refactoring Process (Technical)
This intermediate level course covers the refactoring process of a legacy mainframe application. You will learn how AWS Blu Age powers the automated refactoring pattern within the AWS Mainframe Modernization service. We recommend the course for technical learners who want to accelerate the modernization of mainframe applications.
Digital | 1 hour
AWS Partner: IBM z/OS Essentials (Technical)
This fundamental level course provides an overview of IBM mainframes and z/OS. We recommend the course for technical and business learners who want to better understand mainframe ecosystems, application components, architecture, data formats, file systems, and external system integrations.
Digital | 1 hour
AWS Partner: Mainframe Modernization Proof of Concept Scoping with AWS Blu Insights (Technical)
This intermediate course covers how to narrow a Proof of Concept (POC) scope to transform the legacy codebase of a mainframe application, and how to define the POC perimeter with Blu Insights tool. We recommend the course for both technical and business learners who want to understand how to analyze legacy applications and qualify mainframe refactoring projects.
Digital | 1 hour 10 minutes
AWS Partner: AWS Mainframe Modernization Automated Refactor Transformation Center (Technical)
This intermediate course covers how to transform and refactor mainframe legacy applications from COBOL to Java, through AWS Blu Insights, and how to use AWS Mainframe Modernization Automated Refactor Transformation Center to resolve code errors and create code refactoring. We recommend the course for technical learners who gather modernization requirements and want to implement custom transformations.
Digital | 1 hour 15 minutes
AWS Partner: Practical Data Science with Amazon SageMaker
This intermediate course covers how to prepare data and train, evaluate, tune, and deploy ML models. You will gain hands-on, practical skills through labs focused on data preparation with SageMaker Data Wrangler, model tuning and hyperparameter optimization with Amazon SageMaker, and deploying a model to a real-time endpoint to generate a prediction. We recommend the course for Developers or DevOps Engineers at an AWS Partner organization who want to understand how to collaborate efficiently with data scientists and build applications that integrate with ML.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS
This intermediate course dives deep into implementing a networking infrastructure and networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected Framework. You will gain hands-on, practical skills through labs focused on building a multi-availability zone VPC architecture, getting hands on with Amazon CloudFront, and achieving fault tolerance and global traffic optimization. We recommend the course for Network Engineers at an AWS Partner organization who want to run every workload with the highest level of reliability, security, and performance in the cloud.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Build Modern Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases
This course covers how to build applications that involve complex data characteristics and millisecond performance requirements from your databases. Partners will learn to use purpose-built databases to build typical modern application diverse access patterns and real-time scaling needs.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Partner: Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS
This course provides an overview of generative AI, planning a generative AI project, getting started with Amazon Bedrock, the foundations of prompt engineering, and the architecture patterns to build generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain.
Classroom | 2 days
Solutions training for Partners: Professional services courses
This courses were designed to help those in technical roles develop and extend professional services competencies for AWS customer implementations. Choose from training by advisory services or solutions.
Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.
AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor.
AWS Professional Services: Cloud Adoption Framework
This one-day course mixes theory and practice, providing attendees with working knowledge of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the ability to facilitate the AWS CAF Alignment Workshop.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Professional Services: Cloud Advisory
This course teaches you how to build a compelling business case for cloud adoption, and how to accelerate customer's cloud adoption process. You will learn how to apply the cloud economics concepts to a business case. You will also perform Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Total Cost of Migration (TCM) exercises.
Classroom | 2 days
AWS Professional Services: Operational Integration Best Practices
This course is designed to provide a prescriptive approach to establishing Cloud Operating Model (COM) frameworks that address the people, processes, and tooling needed to support production workloads in the AWS Cloud.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Professional Services: Building a Contact Center Using AWS
This course is focused on implementing a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect. You will use the hands-on lab exercises to set up a contact center using Amazon Connect.
Classroom | 1 day
AWS Professional Services: Security Best Practices
This course focuses on understanding and implementing AWS security best practices. The course uses a challenge-based, hands-on approach to teach and reinforce AWS security best practices around encryption, data protection, disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, logging, alerting, event detection, incident response, and security automation.
Classroom | 2 days