New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in November 2022

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Editor’s note: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification courses and offerings in November 2022 include our third learning path for AWS Jam Journey and 12 digital courses to help you learn about migration to AWS, Amazon Detective, Amazon ECR, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Connect, and modern data analytics (for AWS Partners). We also have an updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam, and an exam prep course for AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty.

New AWS Skill Builder subscription features

AWS Skill Builder Individual and Team subscriptions offer a new way for individuals, organizations, and AWS Partners to learn with highly-interactive digital cloud skills training and AWS Certification preparation, allowing you to develop cloud skills wherever and whenever you need. Subscriptions build upon our existing Skill Builder library of 500+ free, self-paced, digital courses. As new subscription features become available, we’ll keep you informed here.

AWS Jam Journey: Machine Learning

AWS Jam Journey now offers three gamified, experiential learning paths for building AWS skills with real-world challenges. In the newest path, AWS Jam Journey: Machine Learning, you will use your machine learning skills to solve various challenges created by AWS experts. Learn how to run predictions in Amazon Redshift, use Amazon Athena to perform analytics on AWS Textract output, and leverage Amazon SageMaker for various use cases. Learn more about AWS Jam Journey: Machine Learning and sign up for either AWS Skill Builder subscription to participate.

AWS Certification

Updated exam: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

The updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam now is available, validating advanced knowledge and skills in architecting complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes. This certification ranks No. 1 on the Skillsoft list of 15 Top-Paying IT Certifications of 2022, with a salary potential of USD168,080. In addition, the certification is in high demand—job listings requiring it increased 39% from April 2021 to March 2022, according to data provided by Lightcast, a labor market analytics firm.

The updated exam’s content outline isn’t significantly different than the prior exam’s and focuses on architecting aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Be sure to review the updated exam guide and sample questions to learn what to expect. Also, Official Practice Exams in all exam languages are available to gauge your exam readiness (available with AWS Skill Builder Individual or Team subscription). This marks the first time that Official Practice Exams are available for a professional-level AWS Certification exam.

AWS Digital Training

Fundamental-level courses

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate (Coursera)—the first professional certificate that AWS is offering on Coursera—provides the knowledge and skills to start building a career in cloud architecture and helps prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Start by learning key AWS services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security to provide foundational knowledge. Then dive into how to design architectural solutions, how to create and operate a data lake, and finish with how to prepare for the certification exam. Coursera’s Professional Certificate program starts at $39 USD per month with a seven-day free trial. The first 250 individuals who complete this program on Coursera receive a 25% discount voucher for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Learn more about the AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate and enroll today.

Getting Started with Amazon Detective

Getting Started with Amazon Detective is a 60-minute, fundamental-level course designed to help the technical security professional understand the service at a foundational level. Amazon Detective simplifies the investigative process and helps security teams conduct faster, more effective investigations. With Amazon Detective prebuilt data aggregations, summaries, and context, you can quickly analyze and determine the nature and extent of possible security issues. Learn about Amazon Detective’s key features, understand the service architecture, use cases, and the pricing philosophy. Read more about Getting Started with Amazon Detective and enroll today.

Getting Started with Amazon ECR

Getting Started with Amazon ECR is a 30-minute, fundamental-level course designed for AWS customers, AWS Partners, and Amazonians. This course is for developers, systems administrators, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects looking for a fully-managed container registry offering high-performance hosting, so they can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere. Learn the benefits, typical use cases, technical concepts, and cost structure of Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Develop the ability to manage, store, and deploy container images in the Amazon ECR registry through the AWS Management Console. Read more about Getting Started with Amazon ECR and enroll today.

Getting Started with Amazon EKS Anywhere

Getting Started with Amazon EKS Anywhere is a 30-minute, fundamental-level course designed for AWS customers, AWS Partners, and Amazonians. This course is for systems administrators, DevOps engineers and cloud architects who want to operate on-premises Kubernetes clusters with support from AWS. Learn the benefits, typical use cases, technical concepts, and cost structure of Amazon EKS Anywhere. Develop the skills to help streamline on-premises Kubernetes management. Read more about Getting Started with Amazon EKS Anywhere and enroll today.

Getting Started with Migration Hub Refactor Spaces

Getting Started with Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is a 60-minute, fundamental-level course designed for cloud architects and application developers who plan to migrate and refactor their applications on AWS. Learn how Refactor Spaces can help reduce the business risk of evolving applications into micro services or extending existing applications with new features written in micro services. Become familiar with technical concepts that help reduce the complexity of refactoring monoliths. Read more about Getting Started with AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces and enroll today.

Migrating to the AWS Cloud

Migrating to the AWS Cloud (edX, FutureLearn, and Coursera*) is a multi-week, fundamental-level course designed for anyone involved in planning and running migration projects, in particular, solutions architects, software engineers, IT project managers, and operation leads who want a deeper dive into AWS migration. Whether you want to understand what services are helpful, need to plan a migration for your organization, or are helping other groups with their own migration, you will gain insights to help your organization approach and implement a migration. You’ll learn through the three-phase cloud migration process from AWS: assess, mobilize, and migrate and modernize. Visit edX, FutureLearn, and Coursera for free and paid enrollment options.

*On Coursera, the course is called AWS Fundamentals: Migrating to the Cloud

Intermediate-level courses

Amazon Connect: Implementing Chat in Connect

Amazon Connect: Implementing Chat in Connect is a 60-minute, intermediate-level course designed for contact-center technical professionals who work, or would like to work, with the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of the contact center. This course dives into how to leverage chat functionality on Amazon Connect. Learn how to use the chat communication capabilities in an Amazon Connect instance, select and build a chat solution that best accomplishes your organization’s goals, and be able to describe the deployment options of Amazon Connect chat. Suggested prerequisites include:

Read more about Amazon Connect: Implementing Chat in Connect and enroll today.

Amazon Connect: Implementing Task on Connect

Amazon Connect: Implementing Task on Connect is a 60-minute, intermediate-level course designed for contact-center technical professionals who work, or would like to work, with the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of the contact center. This course will familiarize you with the configurations and rules for Amazon Connect Tasks. Learn how to create and schedule tasks to make your contact center more efficient and use task reporting options to gain more visibility into your contact center and customer needs. Learn how to explain the benefits of Amazon Connect Tasks, select and build an Amazon Connect Tasks solution that meets your company goals, understand the process of creating and scheduling an Amazon Connect Task, and analyze metrics to track activities within your organization’s contact center. Suggested prerequisites include:

Read more about Amazon Connect: Implementing Task on Connect and enroll today.

AWS Snowball Edge: Using Snowball Edge

AWS Snowball Edge: Using Snowball Edge is an updated, four-hour, intermediate-level course designed for cloud architects, cloud administrators, and storage administrators who plan and execute migrations to AWS. Learn to perform the complete workflow associated with an AWS Snowball Edge device, from creating an AWS Snowball Edge job, to performing data transfer. Develop the ability to perform the tasks required to migrate data using AWS SnowBall Edge workflows and jobs. Read more about AWS Snowball Edge: Using Snowball Edge and enroll today.

Advanced-level courses

Exam Prep: Advanced Networking – Specialty

Exam Prep: Advanced Networking – Specialty is a three-hour-and-20-minute advanced-level course designed for engineers who want to gauge their preparedness to take the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam. Learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring exam topics and how they map to networking on AWS, and to specific areas of study. Gauge your understanding of topics and concepts from each task statement grouped by exam domains. Explore the exam’s various topic domains and how they map to both AWS Solutions Architect roles and to specific areas of study. Read more about Exam Prep: Advanced Networking – Specialty and enroll today.

Performance Tuning on Amazon DocumentDB

Performance Tuning on Amazon DocumentDB is a 90-minute, advanced-level course designed for database architects, developers, and administrators responsible for optimally running an Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster. Learn the design considerations, monitoring techniques and troubleshooting Amazon DocumentDB workloads for your performance needs. You’ll walk away with the ability to describe the techniques and best practices related to architecting with Amazon DocumentDB, identify common metrics and tools for monitoring your Amazon DocumentDB clusters, and troubleshoot common performance challenges with proven techniques. Read more about Performance Tuning on Amazon DocumentDB and enroll today.

AWS Partner Training

Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS

Build skills on the latest AWS Data and Analytics services that your customers are using and help them make better decisions with speed and agility at scale. The four, free AWS Partner Training courses in the Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS collection let you select the right training on specific AWS Services to meet your customers’ needs. Find an upcoming Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS class or learn more today about each course and language availability.

For customers, learn about and enroll in our Building Modern Data Analytics Solutions on AWS course here.

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