Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner validates foundational, high-level understanding of AWS Cloud, services, and terminology. This is a good starting point on the AWS Certification journey for individuals with no prior IT or cloud experience switching to a cloud career or for line-of-business employees looking for foundational cloud literacy.

AWS Certified AI Practitioner validates foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI concepts and use cases for AWS Services. This is a good starting point for individuals exploring AI/ML on AWS, whether adding AI skills to an existing cloud career or beginning to work with AI/ML technologies.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is focused on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions. This is an ideal starting point for candidates with AWS Cloud or strong on-premises IT experience. This exam does not require deep hands-on coding experience, although familiarity with basic programming concepts would be an advantage.

AWS Certified Developer - Associate showcases skills and knowledge in developing, optimizing, packaging, and deploying applications, using CI/CD workflows, and identifying and resolving application issues. This certification is a good starting point on the AWS Certification journey for individuals in IT or cloud developer job roles.

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (formerly known as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate) validates skills and knowledge in monitoring and maintaining AWS workloads, implementing security controls and networking concepts, performing business continuity procedures, and implementing cost and performance optimizations.

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate validates skills and knowledge in core data-related AWS services, ability to ingest and transform data, orchestrate data pipelines while applying programming concepts, design data models, manage data life cycles, and ensure data quality.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional helps certified individuals showcase advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes. This certification is a means for organizations to identify and develop talent with these critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional showcases advanced technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS, giving you increased confidence and credibility with peers, colleagues, and customers. Organizations with these qualified professionals can ensure speedy delivery of secure and compliant systems that are highly available and scalable.

The AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional (AIP-C01) exam is intended for individuals who perform a GenAI developer role. The exam validates a candidate's ability to effectively integrate foundation models (FMs) into applications and business workflows. This certification demonstrates practical knowledge of how to implement GenAI solutions into production environments by using AWS technologies.

AWS Certified Security - Specialty validates your expertise in creating and implementing security solutions in the AWS Cloud. This certification also validates your understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms; data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them; and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them.