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AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Online Training

Make AI work for you with this AWS Certified AI Practitioner course (AIF-C01), designed for beginners, business leaders, data analysts, and aspiring machine learning engineers. You’ll build a strong foundation in the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning, using AWS services like SageMaker, Bedrock, Comprehend, Rekognition, Lex, and more. Through instructor-led modules and real-world scenarios, you'll learn prompt engineering, model evaluation, and responsible AI practices so non-technical teams can confidently guide AI initiatives and adoption. Aligned with AWS’s five exam domains (AI/ML logic, generative AI, foundation models, ethical AI, and security/governance) you’ll be fully prepared to pass the AIF-C01 exam and earn a valuable foundational AI certification.

Updated August 2025

19Skills
142Videos
1Practice Exam
16hTotal
142 videos1 exam16h

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for non-technical professionals who need to understand AI/ML concepts but don’t need to build models from scratch. It’s built for analysts, managers, and cloud professionals looking to lead AI initiatives, communicate with technical teams, and make smart decisions about using AWS tools for real business problems.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Understanding machine learning workflows on AWS
  • Explaining the purpose and use of foundation models
  • Choosing effective prompt engineering strategies
  • Evaluating model performance and ethical risks
  • Identifying AWS services for generative AI applications
  • Applying AI governance and compliance best practices

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Explore AWS and Cloud Computing Architecture52m
  • Premium skill.Explore Core Artificial Intelligence Concepts46m
  • Compare AI Vs. Machine LearningFree52m
  • Premium skill.Compare Supervised and Unsupervised Learning56m
  • Premium skill.Use Performance Metrics and Phases of ML Workflows1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Examine Foundational Generative AI Concepts50m
  • Premium skill.Apply Generative AI Concepts with Amazon Bedrock49m
  • Premium skill.Build a RAG App & Explore Safety Tools59m
  • Premium skill.Identify Core Prompt Engineering Concepts54m
  • Premium skill.Examine Core Amazon Q Applications52m
  • Premium skill.Explore Foundational Amazon SageMaker Concepts52m
  • Premium skill.Examine Amazon SageMaker AI Tools and Governance50m
  • Premium skill.Compare AWS Managed AI Language Services46m
  • Premium skill.Explore AWS Managed AI Speech & Vision Services51m
  • Premium skill.Explore AWS Managed AI Engagement Services46m
  • Premium skill.Examine AWS Managed AI Infrastructure Services45m
  • Premium skill.Describe Principles Responsible for AI Governance49m
  • Premium skill.Apply Generative AI Security Best Practices44m
  • Premium skill.Apply Tools to Evaluate Fairness in AI Models48m

Certification

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

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.

Exam AIF-C01Level ProfessionalDifficulty BeginnerCost $100
Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionAWS Services such as SageMaker, Rekognition, and Comprehend
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Organizations adopting AI on AWS need shared vocabulary, risk awareness, and service-level decision skills before teams start approving tools or funding pilots. This beginner AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) training is a practical assignment for IT Directors, Training Managers, Team Leads, cloud teams, solution stakeholders, and technical-adjacent staff who need to understand AI, ML, generative AI, and AWS managed AI services without first becoming model developers.

The course is about 16 hours per learner, making it realistic for onboarding, certification readiness, or an AI governance enablement plan. Teams cover AWS and cloud architecture, ML workflow phases and metrics, Bedrock, RAG, prompt engineering, Amazon Q, SageMaker, managed language/speech/vision/engagement services, responsible AI, security, and fairness evaluation. For change management, assign it before AI pilots so practitioners can evaluate use cases, risks, and AWS service options with consistent terminology. CBT Nuggets Playlists, Practice Exams, and Team Reporting can help leaders structure rollout, reinforce exam readiness, and track completion across teams.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to move AI conversations from experimentation to governed, service-aware execution on AWS. The course connects foundational AI concepts to practical AWS services and risk controls that teams can apply when evaluating AI initiatives.

  • Assess AI use cases more consistently: Teams compare AI, ML, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, generative AI, and ML workflow phases before choosing an approach.
  • Evaluate AWS service fit: Practitioners identify where Bedrock, Amazon Q, SageMaker, and managed AI services for language, speech, vision, engagement, and infrastructure fit in AWS environments.
  • Reduce governance and security gaps: Teams examine responsible AI principles, generative AI security best practices, safety tools, and fairness evaluation before approving AI workflows.
  • Support certification and onboarding: Training Managers can use the course to build a shared baseline for AWS Certified AI Practitioner readiness across technical and non-technical contributors.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • Core AWS and cloud computing architecture concepts relevant to AI workloads
  • Differences between AI, machine learning, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and generative AI
  • Common ML workflow phases, performance metrics, and evaluation considerations
  • Foundational use cases for Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, SageMaker, and AWS managed AI services
  • Responsible AI governance, generative AI security practices, safety tooling, and fairness evaluation concepts

Ability

  • Explain AI and ML concepts in business and technical discussions using consistent AWS-aligned terminology
  • Compare AWS AI services for language, speech, vision, engagement, infrastructure, and model development needs
  • Recognize when RAG, prompt engineering, Bedrock, or Amazon Q may support a generative AI use case
  • Identify governance, security, and fairness considerations before AI projects move into production planning
  • Prepare for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam with a structured path through the covered domains

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