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AWS Training & Certification Courses for Cloud Teams

Standardize your cloud team on AWS — from Cloud Practitioner fundamentals through the Generative AI Developer Professional. Structured certification paths, hands-on labs, and team admin reporting that helps IT leaders track partner-tier skill coverage.

40
Courses
2,811
Videos
390h 2m
Total
Cloud engineering team collaborating around laptops and dashboards in a modern operations center

Cloud team ready

Built for teams shipping production workloads on AWS.

Certification architecture

Build AWS capability across foundational, associate, and specialty tiers

Bring everyone to a shared cloud baseline (Cloud Practitioner), match associate-level certs to the roles your team holds (architects, developers, CloudOps, data engineers, ML engineers), then develop specialty depth in security, networking, and generative-AI development.

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Certification tier

Tier 1 — AWS Foundational

Bring the whole team to a shared AWS vocabulary. Cloud Practitioner is the prereq baseline every AWS-adjacent role should hold; AI Practitioner is the new foundational cert for teams adopting Bedrock and AWS-native AI services.

AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

1 course

The foundational baseline. Covers cloud concepts, AWS core services, security, compliance, and billing/pricing fundamentals. The shared vocabulary that prevents misaligned design conversations between cloud, security, and data teams.

AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)

1 course

The fundamentals-tier cert for teams adopting AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Comprehend, Q). Useful for analysts, PMs, and non-ML engineers your team needs to bring into AI-enabled workflows.

AWS Beginner Skills & Core Services (S3, EC2, VPC)

4 courses

Hands-on grounding in the AWS primitives every cloud engineer touches in week one — S3 storage, EC2 compute, VPC networking. A prerequisite layer for new hires before SAA-C03 prep.

2

Certification tier

Tier 2 — AWS Associate Specialization

Match associate-level AWS certs to the roles your team actually holds — solutions architects, developers, CloudOps engineers, data engineers, and ML engineers. These are the credentials AWS Partner Network tier requirements are calibrated against.

AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03)

1 course

The most widely-held AWS cert. Covers designing resilient, secure, performant, and cost-optimized AWS architectures. The credential AWS Partners require for Advanced/Premier tier eligibility.

AWS Developer — Associate (DVA-C02)

2 courses

For application engineers building on AWS — Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CodePipeline, X-Ray. The cert your application team should hold before they own production AWS-native services.

AWS CloudOps Engineer — Associate (COA-C03, formerly SOA)

1 course

Operations and reliability for production AWS workloads — monitoring, automation, deployment, security operations. The associate-tier cert for SREs and CloudOps engineers carrying the on-call pager.

AWS Data Engineer — Associate (DEA-C01)

1 course

For data engineers building pipelines on S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, and Kinesis. The newest associate-tier cert and a fast-growing standard for data team hiring rubrics.

AWS Machine Learning Engineer — Associate (MLA-C01)

1 course

For ML engineers operationalizing models on SageMaker, PyTorch, and TensorFlow inside the AWS stack. Pairs the AI Practitioner foundational with the associate-level MLOps depth your data-science team needs to ship production models.

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Certification tier

Tier 3 — AWS Specialty & Professional

Develop the senior bench that owns architecture, security, and AI strategy. Specialty certs prove deep platform expertise; the new Generative AI Developer Professional is the expert-tier credential for teams shipping production GenAI on AWS.

AWS Security — Specialty (SCS-C03)

1 course

Expert-level AWS security: identity, data protection, infrastructure hardening, threat detection, and incident response. The credential your security architect should hold when signing off on AWS production environments.

AWS Advanced Networking — Specialty (ANS-C01)

1 course

Hybrid cloud networking at scale — VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, and multi-account network architectures. For network engineers operating large AWS estates or hybrid connectivity.

AWS Generative AI Developer — Professional (AIP-C01)

1 course

AWS's newest professional-tier cert. Covers production-ready generative-AI development on Bedrock, including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and responsible-AI guardrails.

Customer outcome

Real cert coverage outcomes, not just course assignments

Customer leaders describe the value in operational terms: AWS Partner-tier requirements satisfied, faster cloud onboarding for new hires, and the ability to point AWS account managers at concrete cert coverage instead of headcount. That's the outcome leadership cares about — not seat-time or completion percentages.

14 engineers certified
AWS associate-level certs earned by a single team after path adoption

Role-based paths

AWS Training by IT Job Role

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

AWS Training for Solutions Architects

6 courses

Architecture, networking, and design depth for engineers owning production AWS topology. SAA-C03 plus the advanced networking specialty and the operational depth (VPC, Transit Gateway, S3 design) that day-to-day architecture work demands.

AWS Training for Cloud Developers

8 courses

For application engineers building on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and the broader serverless stack. DVA-C02 plus operational depth in compute, messaging, and developer tooling.

AWS Training for CloudOps & SRE Engineers

8 courses

Operations, automation, and reliability for production AWS workloads. COA-C03 plus PowerShell/Python automation depth and the management/governance services SREs ship with.

AWS Training for Data & ML Engineers

10 courses

Data engineers and ML engineers building pipelines and operationalizing models on AWS. DEA-C01 + MLA-C01 plus the operational depth across S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and the AI/ML automation tooling.

AWS Training for Security Engineers

6 courses

Defenders running AWS-native security tooling — IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, Macie, KMS. The Security Specialty cert plus the operational depth (access management, data security, compliance) day-to-day security work demands.

Platform depth

Learn AWS Tools and Platforms

Platform-by-platform deep dives for the specificAWS tools your team operates.

Learn AWS EC2 & Compute

5 courses

EC2, Lambda, and the broader AWS compute stack. From foundational EC2 admin through Python/PowerShell automation patterns CloudOps teams use to manage fleets at scale.

Learn AWS S3 & Storage

6 courses

S3, EBS, EFS — the AWS storage fabric. Foundational usage through automation, data security, and storage tier-management for cost optimization.

Learn AWS VPC & Networking

3 courses

VPC design, automation, and the Advanced Networking specialty. For network engineers operating production AWS topology, hybrid connectivity, and multi-account networking.

Learn AWS Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)

4 courses

RDS for relational, DynamoDB for NoSQL, plus Python automation and the Data Engineer cert path for teams owning production data infrastructure on AWS.

Learn AWS Security & IAM

6 courses

IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, and the broader AWS security control plane. From access-management foundations through the Security Specialty cert path for teams hardening production AWS estates.

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.

Scott Pletcher

Scott Pletcher

Cloud Computing & Cloud Security

Knox Hutchinson

Knox Hutchinson

Cloud Computing & DevOps

Jonathan Barrios

Jonathan Barrios

Data Science, Machine Learning & AI

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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