AWS Training and Certification Blog

Category: Announcements

Game on: Introducing AWS Skill Builder Trivia

Learn all about AWS Skill Builder Trivia, a new tool that transforms knowledge reinforcement into a fun, competitive experience. Designed to create and deliver real-time multi-participant competitions, AWS Skill Builder Trivia offers an interactive format for knowledge checks, icebreakers, and team challenges that strengthen understanding of key cloud concepts.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in April 2025

In April 2025, 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.

AWS Jam Journeys: New role-based challenges on AWS Skill Builder

Imagine navigating the same cloud challenges that AWS solutions architects face daily, and proving you can solve them. That’s what AWS Jam Journeys offer through hands-on learning experiences. And, now we’ve reorganized our AWS Jam Journeys to better match your learning paths and the way you interact with AWS services.

AWS Well-Architected for Enterprises: a new free digital course

To help organizations implement Well-Architected best practices consistently while they expand, we’ve launched Well-Architected for Enterprises, a new free digital course. Designed for technical professionals who architect, build, and operate AWS solutions at scale, this intermediate level course will help you optimize your cloud architecture while aligning to your business goals.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in January 2025

In January 2025, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including two new AWS Jam Journeys, additional language availability for Exam Prep materials in support of AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer certification exams, as well as a new AWS Builder Lab, Sustainability Strategies with AWS Compute Workload, designed to help identify sustainability strategies using AWS services and tools to optimize usage and costs in an AWS environment.

Maximizing your cloud journey: Engaging an AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Solutions Architects are a free resource to customers and partners and wear three crucial hats: technical advisor, customer advocate, and educator. Learn how you can engage AWS Solutions Architects and benefit from their time-tested expertise and best practices across AWS services, industries, and company sizes.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in December 2024

In December 2024, we launched nine new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including five new AWS Builder Labs, a new AWS Jam focused on troubleshooting AWS Web Development issues in a gamified learning environment, and one new AWS Digital Classroom course. We also launched AWS Learning Assistant for AWS Builder Labs, a new AI-powered, chat-based guide that enhances self-paced learning by providing real-time responses and insights to learners.

Announcing AWS AI Skills Champions

This past week at AWS re:Invent, we celebrated the organizations that went above and beyond to certify staff in AI/ML skills. AWS Certification hosted a reception at the AWS Certification Lounge to award AWS AI Skills Champion Trophies to these organizations as AWS AI Certification Early Adopters.