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Develop real-world AWS skills with immersive learning
Accelerate your career with immersive learning experiences that help you achieve your goals faster. Whether you're an aspiring developer, experienced professional, or team leader, build your practical cloud and AI skills through real-world scenarios.
Develop job-ready skills
Building on what you've learned from videos and courses, AWS Skill Builder's immersive experiences put you in real AWS environments where you'll solve problems, build working solutions, and develop the confidence that comes from hands-on practice.
Build role and industry expertise
You'll develop specialized skills that position you for career advancement by practicing real scenarios across different roles and industries.
AWS Cloud Quest
AWS Cloud Quest builds job-ready skills across nine different cloud roles—from solutions architect to data analyst. Drop into a 3D city where you're solving real business challenges and earn digital badges that prove you can actually build what employers need.
AWS SimuLearn
AWS SimuLearn develops both technical and communication expertise through realistic customer scenarios. Start with AI-powered customer conversations where you practice gathering requirements and handling objections, then transition into live AWS environments to build the solutions you just discussed. Pick a role, industry, or topic to focus your learning on the expertise that matters most for your career path.
AWS Industry Quest
AWS Industry Quest builds deep industry expertise in Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and Automotive. Customize your avatar and take over a virtual organization to transform it into an industry leader, earning digital badges you can share with your network.
Practice in the AWS Console
AWS Builder Labs
AWS Builder Labs give you over 200 guided, interactive experiences in safe AWS Console environments with step-by-step instructions to help you learn AWS services. Available with the AI-powered, trainer-inspired Learning Assistant to help you answer queries and explain code, all within your lab's context.
AWS Jam
AWS Jam challenges you to apply your AWS knowledge to real-world scenarios that don't have step-by-step instructions. Choose your challenge level and technical domain, then use your knowledge to troubleshoot, debug, and solve open-ended problems in the AWS Console. You'll earn points, compete with colleagues through customized Jam Events with a Skill Builder Team subscription, or discover that satisfying feeling of figuring it out yourself with Jam Journey.
Prepare for certifications
AWS Certification exam prep includes AWS SimuLearn and AWS Escape Room. AWS Escape Room turns exam prep into an adventure. Work through 100+ exam-style questions, plus hands-on labs, and challenges that map directly to certification domains, including Cloud Practitioner, AI Practitioner, and Solutions Architect Associate.
Validate skills
Microcredentials
Microcredentials validate your hands-on cloud computing skills through real-time assessment in a provisioned AWS environment. Microcredentials complement AWS Certifications by demonstrating your practical implementation abilities.
Pass these practical assessments in areas like Serverless or Agentic AI, and you'll have official AWS credentials that tell employers exactly what you can build.
AWS Cloud Quest: Recertify
AWS Cloud Quest: Recertify Cloud Practitioner offers current Cloud Practitioners an alternative to retaking the exam—complete 13 hands-on assignments instead. You'll refresh your skills while maintaining your certification.
Develop communication confidence
AWS Skill Builder Meeting Simulator
AWS Skill Builder Meeting Simulator builds your strategic communication skills through realistic meeting scenarios with AI-powered characters representing various stakeholders—from executives to technical experts. Through voice or text, practice explaining technical solutions, handling objections, discussing requirements while receiving immediate feedback on your communication effectiveness.
AWS SimuLearn
AWS SimuLearn combines communication skills development with technical building. Engage with a virtual customer in simulated scenarios, gather requirements, develop architectural proposals with constructive feedback, then transition to a guided hands-on solution building exercises in a risk-free AWS environment.
Build foundational knowledge through play
AWS Card Clash
AWS Card Clash turns learning AWS architecture into a fun strategy game. Deploy service cards to build solutions in single or multiplayer matches. Perfect for quick learning sessions on-the-go or during downtime.
Download the free mobile app on iOS or on Android.
AWS Skill Builder Trivia
AWS Skill Builder Trivia makes knowledge retention competitive with 700+ questions, AI-generated content, and live leaderboards. Ideal for reinforcing your AWS knowledge with colleagues at team events, conferences, and customer sites.
Ready to start building?
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