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AWS Certification Training & Courses for IT Teams

From the CLF-C02 Cloud Practitioner baseline through the SAA-C03 architect and SCS-C03 security specialty paths, every AWS certification track comes with structured training, hands-on labs, and team admin reporting. Build an AWS-fluent cloud team — and prove the capability coverage your auditors and leadership ask for.

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AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams and CloudWatch dashboards in a modern operations center

AWS-credentialed team

Built for teams running production AWS workloads with audit-ready coverage proof.

CertificationsAWS

Spotlight

6 certifications

The AWS certifications IT directors most often standardize their teams on. Each comes with hands-on virtual labs, N2K practice exams, and team admin reporting included.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

In Demand
EntryLabsPracticeCLF-C02
AWS Cloud conceptsSecurity and complianceTechnology

Demonstrate your understanding of the AWS Cloud and its services, including architecture, pricing, security, and more. This certification is ideal for individuals who want to gain a broad understanding of the AWS Cloud and its applications. It's a great starting point for those new to AWS or looking to transition into a cloud-focused role.

Exam investment: $100 USD

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

In Demand
AssociateLabsPracticeSAA-C03
Designing resilient architecturesDesigning high-performing architecturesDesigning secure applications and architectures

Demonstrate your ability to design and deploy scalable, secure, and efficient cloud architectures on AWS. This certification validates your skills in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions, and is ideal for professionals with 2+ years of experience in designing and deploying cloud architectures.

Exam investment: 150 USD

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeSOA-C03
AWS Management ConsoleAWS CLIMonitoring and Reporting

The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification validates your ability to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and secure systems on AWS. This certification is ideal for IT professionals who have hands-on experience with AWS and are responsible for deploying and managing systems on the platform. It's recommended for those who have at least one year of experience with AWS and have a strong understanding of AWS services and their use cases.

Exam investment: 150 USD

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeDVA-C02
AWS SDKAWS CLIAWS services integration

Demonstrate your skills in developing cloud-based applications and solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This certification validates your ability to design, develop, and deploy cloud-based applications and solutions using AWS services. It is recommended for developers who have at least one year of hands-on experience with AWS.

Exam investment: $150 USD

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

SpecialtyLabsPracticeSCS-C03
Incident responseLogging and monitoringInfrastructure security

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing and implementing secure applications and systems on the AWS platform. This certification is ideal for security professionals, architects, and engineers who want to demonstrate their expertise in AWS security features and best practices.

Exam investment: 300 USD

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

SpecialtyLabsPracticeANS-C01
Design and implement hybrid IT network architectures at scaleImplement core AWS services according to basic architectural best practicesDesign and maintain network architecture for all AWS services

The AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing and deploying scalable, secure, and highly available network architectures on AWS. This certification is ideal for network engineers, architects, and professionals who design and deploy network infrastructure on AWS. It demonstrates your expertise in designing and deploying AWS services such as VPCs, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, and Direct Connect.

Exam investment: 300 USD

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Associate Level

1 certification

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeDEA-C01
Data EngineeringAWS Data ServicesETL

The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing, building, and managing scalable and secure data processing systems on AWS. This certification is ideal for data engineers, data architects, and data scientists who want to demonstrate their expertise in designing and implementing data processing systems on AWS. It is also suitable for professionals who want to migrate their data processing workloads to AWS.

Exam investment: $150 USD

Professional Level

2 certifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

ProfessionalLabsPracticeAIF-C01
Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language Processing

AWS Certified AI Practitioner validates in-demand knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI concepts and use cases. Sharpen your competitive edge and position yourself for career growth and higher earnings.

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

ProfessionalLabsPracticeMLA-C01
machine learningdeep learningAWS services

The AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate (MLA-C01) certification validates the ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain machine learning solutions on AWS. It is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role and have one to two years of experience using machine learning and deep learning on the AWS Cloud.

Customer outcome

AWS capability your team can prove on the job

Mid-market IT leaders measure AWS training value in operational terms — faster onboarding into cloud admin roles, defensible IAM and security configurations for audit reviews, and a shared AWS vocabulary across cloud, security, and dev teams. Those are the outcomes leadership cares about, not seat-time or completion percentages.

Role-based paths

AWS certifications by IT job role

Match AWS certs to the actual roles your team holds. Each path bundles the right certs plus the operational depth engineers need day-to-day.

AWS certs for Cloud Admins & Solutions Architects

3 certifications

The associate-level credentials for teams operating production AWS. SAA-C03 is the architect baseline every senior cloud engineer should hold; SOA-C03 covers CloudOps for the team running the workloads. CLF-C02 establishes the shared cloud vocabulary across the org.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

In Demand
EntryLabsPracticeCLF-C02
AWS Cloud conceptsSecurity and complianceTechnology

Demonstrate your understanding of the AWS Cloud and its services, including architecture, pricing, security, and more. This certification is ideal for individuals who want to gain a broad understanding of the AWS Cloud and its applications. It's a great starting point for those new to AWS or looking to transition into a cloud-focused role.

Exam investment: $100 USD

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

In Demand
AssociateLabsPracticeSAA-C03
Designing resilient architecturesDesigning high-performing architecturesDesigning secure applications and architectures

Demonstrate your ability to design and deploy scalable, secure, and efficient cloud architectures on AWS. This certification validates your skills in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions, and is ideal for professionals with 2+ years of experience in designing and deploying cloud architectures.

Exam investment: 150 USD

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeSOA-C03
AWS Management ConsoleAWS CLIMonitoring and Reporting

The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification validates your ability to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and secure systems on AWS. This certification is ideal for IT professionals who have hands-on experience with AWS and are responsible for deploying and managing systems on the platform. It's recommended for those who have at least one year of experience with AWS and have a strong understanding of AWS services and their use cases.

Exam investment: 150 USD

AWS certs for Cloud Developers

1 certification

The developer-associate track for teams shipping serverless and containerized applications on AWS. DVA-C02 covers SAM, CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, and the patterns AWS-shop dev teams use day-to-day.

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeDVA-C02
AWS SDKAWS CLIAWS services integration

Demonstrate your skills in developing cloud-based applications and solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This certification validates your ability to design, develop, and deploy cloud-based applications and solutions using AWS services. It is recommended for developers who have at least one year of hands-on experience with AWS.

Exam investment: $150 USD

AWS certs for Security Engineers

1 certification

Defend the AWS stack with SCS-C03 (Security – Specialty). Covers GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM hardening, encryption at rest/in transit, and incident response patterns auditors want to see documented.

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

SpecialtyLabsPracticeSCS-C03
Incident responseLogging and monitoringInfrastructure security

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing and implementing secure applications and systems on the AWS platform. This certification is ideal for security professionals, architects, and engineers who want to demonstrate their expertise in AWS security features and best practices.

Exam investment: 300 USD

AWS certs for Network Engineers

1 certification

ANS-C01 (Advanced Networking – Specialty) for teams running Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, hybrid VPN, and multi-account network topologies. Pairs with the SAA-C03 architect track for full network-architecture coverage.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

SpecialtyLabsPracticeANS-C01
Design and implement hybrid IT network architectures at scaleImplement core AWS services according to basic architectural best practicesDesign and maintain network architecture for all AWS services

The AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing and deploying scalable, secure, and highly available network architectures on AWS. This certification is ideal for network engineers, architects, and professionals who design and deploy network infrastructure on AWS. It demonstrates your expertise in designing and deploying AWS services such as VPCs, subnets, route tables, network ACLs, security groups, and Direct Connect.

Exam investment: 300 USD

AWS certs for Data & AI Engineers

3 certifications

DEA-C01 covers the data engineering track (Glue, Redshift, EMR, MSK). AIF-C01 and MLA-C01 cover the AI/ML specialties for teams shipping generative AI and predictive ML workloads on AWS.

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

AssociateLabsPracticeDEA-C01
Data EngineeringAWS Data ServicesETL

The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate certification validates your skills and knowledge in designing, building, and managing scalable and secure data processing systems on AWS. This certification is ideal for data engineers, data architects, and data scientists who want to demonstrate their expertise in designing and implementing data processing systems on AWS. It is also suitable for professionals who want to migrate their data processing workloads to AWS.

Exam investment: $150 USD

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

ProfessionalLabsPracticeAIF-C01
Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language Processing

AWS Certified AI Practitioner validates in-demand knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI concepts and use cases. Sharpen your competitive edge and position yourself for career growth and higher earnings.

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

ProfessionalLabsPracticeMLA-C01
machine learningdeep learningAWS services

The AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate (MLA-C01) certification validates the ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain machine learning solutions on AWS. It is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role and have one to two years of experience using machine learning and deep learning on the AWS Cloud.

Every certification includes

Expert-led video training
Virtual labs
N2K practice exams
Per-team completion reporting

Practitioner-led

AWS training your team learns from

Built and taught by engineers who have spent decades running production AWS infrastructure — not crowd-sourced contributors.

Bart Castle

Bart Castle

Cloud Computing & Cloud Security

Scott Pletcher

Scott Pletcher

Cloud Computing & Cloud Security

Knox Hutchinson

Knox Hutchinson

Cloud Computing & DevOps

Team outcome

Cloud certification readiness

Role-aligned AWS paths help managers assign the right training without building a certification plan from scratch.

Best fit for: teams standardizing cloud fundamentals, hands-on labs, and certification coverage across a growing engineering group.

Frequently asked questions about AWS training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS training for their team.

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