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AWS ML Engineer Associate Professional Certificate

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AWS ML Engineer Associate Professional Certificate

For Associate Machine Learning Engineers using AWS.

Prepare for ML Engineer Associate certification.

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Advanced level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Prepare data for ML and generative AI workloads on AWS by ingesting, transforming, and validating it with AWS services.

  • Develop ML and generative AI models by selecting a modeling approach, training and tuning models on Amazon SageMaker AI.

  • Operate ML and generative AI solutions in production by deploying, automating, monitoring, optimizing, and securing them with AWS Services.

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Professional Certificate - 19 course series

What you'll learn

  • Explain how foundational machine learning and AI concepts apply to formulating and scoping a feasible ML solution on AWS.

  • Describe key machine learning components, including ML algorithms and models.

  • Describe key ML capabilities and algorithms that help solve common business problems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Cloud Services
Category: AWS SageMaker
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: Model Training
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Amazon Bedrock
Category: Generative AI
Category: CI/CD
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Model Deployment
Category: AI Security
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Fine-tuning
Category: Data Pipelines
ML Engineer - Collect, Ingest, and Store Data

ML Engineer - Collect, Ingest, and Store Data

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate AWS storage and ingestion services for ML and AI workloads based on data requirements and compliance constraints.

  • Differentiate appropriate data formats based on access patterns and processing requirements.

  • Describe different methods for visualizing data.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Amazon S3
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Data Processing
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Generative AI
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: CI/CD
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: AWS Kinesis
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Vector Databases
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: AWS SageMaker
Category: Data Pipelines

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate data transformation, feature engineering, and GenAI data preparation methods for a given dataset and modeling approach.

  • Describe document preparation for RAG applications including chunking strategies and metadata extraction.

  • Describe fundamental encoding techniques.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: CI/CD
Category: Embeddings
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Cloud Services
Category: AWS SageMaker
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Data Wrangling
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Amazon Bedrock
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
ML Engineer - Validate Data and Prepare for Modeling

ML Engineer - Validate Data and Prepare for Modeling

Course 4, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate data quality and bias risks across data modalities and appropriate mitigation strategies for ML and GenAI training data.

  • Explain data quality validation using AWS data quality tools.

  • Describe data labeling and annotation using AWS services.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Generative AI
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Data Validation
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: CI/CD
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Cloud Services
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Ethics
Category: AWS SageMaker
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Model Training
Category: Data Integrity
Lab - Configure Data Pipelines with AWS Glue

Lab - Configure Data Pipelines with AWS Glue

Course 5, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Integrate multiple datasets by joining two cataloged tables in an AWS Glue Visual ETL job.

  • Orchestrate a crawler and an ETL job as a single AWS Glue Workflow using triggers.

  • Process data incrementally with AWS Glue job bookmarks.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Workflow Management
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Amazon S3
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Data Validation
Category: Jupyter
Category: Data Integration
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: SQL
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
ML Engineer - Choose Modeling Approaches

ML Engineer - Choose Modeling Approaches

Course 6, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate modeling approaches for a given business problem.

  • Differentiate FMs from Amazon Bedrock based on task requirements and cost.

  • Identify fine-tuning strategies for pre-trained FMs and when to use each.

ML Engineer - Train Models

ML Engineer - Train Models

Course 7, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate training approaches and configurations for ML models using SageMaker AI.

  • Define core elements in the model training process.

  • Explain SageMaker AI built-in algorithms and common ML libraries for training.

ML Engineer - Customize and Fine Tune Models

ML Engineer - Customize and Fine Tune Models

Course 8, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate techniques to refine and customize ML and GenAI models.

  • Explain techniques to prevent model overfitting, underfitting, and catastrophic forgetting

  • Describe model combination approaches, including ensemble methods such as boosting, bagging, and stacking.

ML Engineer - Analyze and Evaluate Performance

ML Engineer - Analyze and Evaluate Performance

Course 9, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose the performance of ML and GenAI models and systems.

  • Explain reproducible experiment tracking using MLflow on SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock evaluations.

  • Interpret model evaluation metrics such as model bias and model variance.

Lab - Train a model with Amazon SageMaker

Lab - Train a model with Amazon SageMaker

Course 10, 1 hour

What you'll learn

ML Engineer - Manage Deployment Infrastructure

ML Engineer - Manage Deployment Infrastructure

Course 11, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate deployment infrastructure for ML and AI workloads based on latency, cost, and scale requirements.

  • Differentiate appropriate compute environments and deployment targets for ML workloads.

  • Differentiate deployment orchestrators and multi-model or multi-container strategies.

ML Engineer - Provision and Configure Resources

ML Engineer - Provision and Configure Resources

Course 12, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate compute, storage, networking, and AI-specific resource configurations for ML and AI workloads.

  • Explain resource provisioning tradeoffs between on-demand and provisioned resources.

  • Describe compute provisioning automation.

ML Engineer - Automated Orchestration and CI/CD

ML Engineer - Automated Orchestration and CI/CD

Course 13, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate CI/CD pipeline components for automating ML and AI workloads.

  • Describe automated deployment strategies with rollback actions.

  • Explain AWS developer tools for CI/CD and their troubleshooting approaches.

What you'll learn

ML Engineer - Monitor Model Inference

ML Engineer - Monitor Model Inference

Course 15, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate appropriate monitoring strategies for model performance, data quality, drift detection, agent behavior, and FM quality.

  • Describe how to monitor model performance and data quality in production using Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Bedrock evaluations.

  • Explain how to detect anomalies or errors in data processing and model inference workflows.

ML Engineer - Optimize Costs and Performance

ML Engineer - Optimize Costs and Performance

Course 16, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate cost and performance tradeoffs for production ML and AI workloads.

  • Differentiate inference instance families to optimize performance and cost.

  • Describe troubleshooting and analysis tools for ML and AI workloads.

ML Engineer - Secure ML and AI Workloads

ML Engineer - Secure ML and AI Workloads

Course 17, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose security risks in an ML and AI system and the appropriate controls to mitigate them.

  • Explain how to secure CI/CD pipelines by checking for code and image vulnerabilities.

  • Describe least privilege access patterns for ML and AI artifacts.

What you'll learn

AWS ML Engineer Associate Conclusion (ML Engineer)

AWS ML Engineer Associate Conclusion (ML Engineer)

Course 19, 19 minutes

What you'll learn

  • Prepare data for ML and AI, including features, RAG documents, and fine-tuning datasets.

  • Choose, train, fine-tune, and evaluate ML models and foundation models.

  • Deploy and orchestrate ML and AI workflows using AWS services.

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