Category: Customer Solutions

Three former data center technicians share their journey to becoming AWS Solutions Architects, offering a roadmap for IT professionals looking to transform their careers. From learning essential compute concepts to gaining hands-on experience with AWS services, this blog post provides valuable insights and resources for those ready to level up their skills in cloud computing.

Discover how JC Boissy transformed from a cloud novice to an award-winning game developer through AWS Cloud Institute. His journey from managing cloud projects to creating CloudJack-21, an innovative serverless card game that earned recognition in the 2024 AWS Game Builder Challenge, showcases the power of structured cloud-skills training and hands-on experience.

Discover how AWS re/Start and Momentum are creating pathways for women in tech through their collaborative workforce development program. Learn about the upcoming opportunities to engage with newly certified AWS Certified Cloud Practitioners and how your organization can contribute to building a more inclusive tech future while strengthening your technical teams.

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.

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.

Today, we’re thrilled to celebrate the graduation of the inaugural cohort of AWS Cloud Institute learners, marking a significant milestone in their journey toward launching successful careers in cloud development. Throughout the program, this exceptional group of individuals not only honed their technical expertise but also became part of a dynamic and supportive learning community, fostering collaboration and growth along the way.

The journey from AWS Certified AI Practitioner to AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty offers a structured approach that helps you grow—from understanding fundamental AI concepts to handling complex ML projects in a cloud environment. By using resources like AWS Skill Builder, AWS Educate and the Udemy Business Leadership Academy cohort programs, you can accelerate your learning and stay ahead of the competition in the fast-moving AI/ML landscape.

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.

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.

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.