Welcome to May’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. This month, we launched 33 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including two new AWS Builder Labs, a new Digital Classroom course (Build Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases), a new Partner course (Generative AI on AWS Essentials (Business)), and localized versions of Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), Exam Prep: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional (DOP-C02), and Exam Prep: AWS Certified ..read more

Did you know that 95% of customers consider cloud certifications important in their decision-making process when choosing an AWS Partner? Moreover, 85% cite them as a deciding factor when selecting a partner (Canalys, 2023). Partners with AWS Certifications have demonstrated their understanding of AWS best practices, architectures, and services. This enables them to recommend the most suitable solutions that align with the customer’s requirements and business goals. AWS Certifications are widely recognized in the industry and serve as a mark of credibility. Customers can trust that certified p ..read more

Beginning your learning journey often starts with a single step: the decision to enhance your skills in a structured, measurable way. For me, that decision was driven by recognizing the increasing importance of cloud technology in our life – both at work and at home – and my desire to excel in this rapidly evolving field. I’m Deepti, a Technology Associate at Strategio, and I’m passionate about leveraging cloud technologies to innovate and solve real-world problems. In my role, I help provide early-career, diverse technologists with accessible tech education. I love exploring new technologies ..read more

Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that gives enterprises the ability to use their data and internal information in revolutionary ways. Amazon Q business can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your data and enterprise information. A new key component of Amazon Q business is Amazon Q Apps (Preview), a groundbreaking new feature that allows users to quickly create generative AI-apps through simple natural language processing. These secure and customized apps can streamline tasks and increase team and individual productivity. Ama ..read more

Welcome to April’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. This month, we launched 19 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including two new AWS Digital Classroom courses (Digital Classroom – Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS and Digital Classroom – Security Engineering on AWS), nine new digital courses, two new AWS Partner courses (both include an Accreditation Badge to be awarded upon successful completion of the final assessment), and localized versions (Japan ..read more

Are you at an inflection point and exploring how you might transition to a career in cloud? We’re an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect (Prasad) and Technical Trainer (Ashish) and we’ve been mentoring learners on their AWS Cloud career journeys since 2019. We’re passionate about helping people from all walks of life find their place in the cloud, regardless of their starting point. We recently co-authored a book, Cloud Career Journeys, and sought to tell the stories of individuals who started or advanced their cloud career in the hopes that it will help inspire you to get started or ..read more

Going through a career transition is never easy, but having access to the right training resources and expert guidance can help you develop the skills and confidence you need to succeed. That’s one of the primary reasons Steen Krogh Groennebaek turned to AWS Skills Center Seattle when he was ready to explore a career in the cloud. As a job seeker with some previous exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, Steen realized that acquiring new skills would be critical to remaining a good job candidate for hiring companies. Although he didn’t have direct experience with the clo ..read more

Learning the different AWS services and how they work can be a daunting task, especially if you’re new to the cloud. Last year, we wrote about how you can use AWS Solution Focused Immersion Days (SFID) to accelerate your team’s understanding of different aspects of AWS. There are many resources available to help you build your knowledge and skills, such as AWS Whitepapers and 600+ free digital learning courses and resources on AWS Skill Builder, our online learning center. Today, we want to introduce you to the resources that power SFIDs – AWS Workshops. AWS Workshops are free, self-guided tut ..read more

Amazon CodeWhisperer is a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI)-powered productivity tool that improves developer productivity and can serve as an accelerated learning path for cloud computing. Amazon CodeWhisperer uses machine learning (ML) to provide intelligent code suggestions in an integrated development environment (IDE). Amazon CodeWhisperer is trained on billions of lines of Amazon and publicly available code. It has built-in security scans, provides code suggestions to remediate any issues it identifies, and makes it easy for developers to deploy AWS services that meet AWS best p ..read more

Welcome to March’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. This month we launched eight new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including four new AWS Builder Labs and a free learning plan called, Generative AI Developer Kit. We also have three new, and one updated AWS Classroom Training courses—two of which have AWS Partner versions—including Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS. A reminder: registration is now open for the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate ..read more