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New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in April 2025
Welcome to April’s post announcing new training course launches and certification launches—helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions.
Missed our March course update? Check it out here.
This month, we launched 14 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 9 new AWS Builder Labs, 4 new Digital Classroom courses, and a new game-based learning offering, AWS Skill Builder Trivia, an immersive learning tool that enables you to create dynamic, multiplayer trivia quizzes for live training sessions and events.
New AWS Skill Builder subscription features
AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges. Select plans offer access to AWS Digital Classroom courses to dive deep with expert instruction. AWS Digital Classroom courses are available with Individual annual subscription and Team subscription.
Check out the newest additions to AWS Skill Builder subscription:
Game-based learning
Ready to turn team meetings into trivia showdowns? Challenge your colleagues in AWS Skill Builder Trivia, the latest game-based learning offering from AWS Skill Builder. Trivia is an immersive learning tool that enables you to create dynamic, multiplayer trivia quizzes for live training sessions and events. Trivia creators can customize content, settings, and game play with options for pre-made templates, free-text entry, and/or AI-generated questions that are tailored to specific knowledge areas. During live trivia sessions, participants join using a code or QR code, competing in real time to answer questions correctly and climb the leaderboard. Learning AWS just got even more fun!
AWS Builder Labs
AWS Builder Labs help you learn cloud skills—hands-on—with practice in the AWS Management Console. Learn at your own pace with 200+ AWS Builder Labs, available with an AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription and Team subscription.
See our newest labs:
Fundamental:
- Lab – Transform Data with HAQM Data Firehose
- Lab – Introduction to HAQM EMR Cluster Management and Job Processing
- Lab – Deploy and Scale MySQL Databases with HAQM RDS for MySQL
- Lab – Create Queues and Handle Messages using HAQM Simple Queue Service (HAQM SQS)
- Lab – Implement Custom Authentication with HAQM Cognito
- Lab – Create and Manage a Basic Kafka Cluster using HAQM Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
- Lab – Build Chatbots with HAQM Lex
Intermediate:
- Lab – Building Secure and Responsible Gen AI with GuardRails for HAQM Bedrock
- Lab – Configure File Systems with HAQM FSx
AWS Digital Classroom
AWS Digital Classroom courses combine the depth of live classroom training with the convenience of digital learning. They provide comprehensive knowledge and skills enablement through recordings of expert instructors, demonstrations, hands-on labs, knowledge checks, and assessments. Enjoy flexibility in time, location, and pace, along with the ability to pause, rewind, and revisit content. AWS Digital Classroom is available as part of AWS Skill Builder Individual annual subscription and Team subscription.
This month, we launched the following AWS Digital Classroom courses:
Intermediate:
- Digital Classroom – MLOps Engineering on AWS
- Digital Classroom – Running Containers on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS)
- Digital Classroom – Designing and Implementing Storage on AWS