AWS certifications
Thirteen AWS certifications, prepared exam by exam: scenario questions written the way AWS asks them, timed practice exams, hands-on cloud labs and an AI tutor that explains every answer in your style.
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Certification paths
AWS certifications go from Foundational to Associate to Professional, with Specialty exams for deep expertise and a Business certification for the people who lead AI adoption. Start where your experience is, then follow the role you want. Select any certification to see its exam.
Foundations
No experience needed
Architecture
Design systems on AWS
Development & operations
Build, run and automate
Data & AI
Pipelines, models and generative AI
Specialty
Go deep on one domain
AI strategy
Lead AI from adoption to scale
All AWS certifications
Filter by track or level. Every card shows the exam you’ll sit, straight from AWS: its code, question count, time limit and passing score.
13 certifications
FoundationalFoundations
Cloud fundamentals for any role
The AWS Cloud, its core services, security, pricing and support: the shared language of every team that works on AWS.
Recommended: Up to 6 months of exposure to AWS
FoundationalFoundations
AI literacy for any role
AI, machine learning and generative AI concepts, and how AWS services like Amazon Bedrock put them to work responsibly.
Recommended: Up to 6 months of exposure to AI/ML on AWS
AssociateArchitecture
Cloud Architect
Design secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized systems across the breadth of AWS services.
Recommended: 1 year designing solutions on AWS
ProfessionalArchitecture
Senior or Enterprise Cloud Architect
Architecture for complex organizations: multi-account strategy, migration, resilience and cost at scale.
Recommended: 2+ years designing and deploying on AWS
SAP-C03 launches Nov 17, 2026
AssociateDevelopment & operations
Cloud Application Developer
Develop, test, deploy and debug cloud applications with AWS services, including AI-assisted development tools.
Recommended: 1+ years building applications on AWS
DVA-C03 is live · DVA-C02 retires Nov 30, 2026
AssociateDevelopment & operations
Cloud Operations Engineer or SRE
Deploy, monitor, automate and troubleshoot workloads on AWS. The successor to SysOps Administrator.
Recommended: 1 year operating workloads on AWS
ProfessionalDevelopment & operations
DevOps or Platform Engineer
Automate delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and incident response across AWS environments.
Recommended: 2+ years provisioning and operating AWS
AssociateData & AI
Data or Analytics Engineer
Ingest, transform, store and govern data on AWS, and keep pipelines reliable and cost-effective.
Recommended: 2–3 years in data engineering, 1–2 on AWS
AssociateData & AI
ML or MLOps Engineer
Prepare data, then train, deploy and monitor ML models with Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock.
Recommended: 1 year with SageMaker AI and Bedrock
Updated MLA-C02 in beta, in English
ProfessionalData & AI
AI Engineer
Build production-ready generative AI on AWS with Amazon Bedrock: retrieval, agents, evaluation and guardrails.
Recommended: 2+ years building on AWS, 1 with generative AI
SpecialtySpecialty
Cloud Security Engineer
Identity at scale, data protection, threat detection, incident response and governance across AWS accounts.
Recommended: 3–5 years securing cloud solutions
SpecialtySpecialty
Network Engineer
Design and run hybrid and AWS network architectures: connectivity, routing, DNS and network security.
Recommended: Hands-on hybrid and AWS networking
Retires Dec 31, 2026
BusinessAI strategy
Business leaders who drive AI
Find where AI creates value, weigh the investment, govern adoption and scale AI initiatives. No coding or hands-on AWS needed.
Recommended: 6 months working with teams adopting AI
Beta open · Early Adopter badge by Feb 15, 2027
Exam details from aws.amazon.com and the AWS exam guides, checked weekly for changes; last updated November 4, 2026. AWS and the names of its certifications are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
Built for AWS exams
AWS exams ask what you would do, not what a service is called. Every tool works toward the exam you’ll actually sit.
Full-length exams in the AWS format: 65 or 75 questions, the real time limit and a score out of 1,000, so exam day holds no surprises.
Learn more: Timed practice examsAWS questions describe a situation and offer four answers that could all work. Practice picking the best one until the reasoning is second nature.
Learn more: Scenario questionsBuild, break and fix cloud setups in guided labs, following the tasks each exam guide describes.
Learn more: Hands-on labsGot one wrong? The tutor explains why each option fits or doesn’t, in the way you learn best.
Learn more: An AI tutor on every answerA readiness score across every exam domain, so you book the exam when the numbers say you’ll pass.
Learn more: Know when you’re readyFAQs
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Cloud Practitioner if you’re new to the cloud, or AI Practitioner if your focus is AI; neither needs experience. With a year of hands-on AWS, most people go straight to an Associate exam, most often Solutions Architect – Associate. If you lead AI work rather than build it, AI Business Strategist needs no technical background.
Foundational exams give you 90 minutes for 65 questions, and Associate exams 130 minutes for 65. Professional exams run 180 minutes for 75 questions, and Specialty exams 170 minutes for 65. Beta exams run longer, often 170 minutes for 85 questions; each card shows the current length.
AWS scores every exam from 100 to 1,000. You need 700 on Foundational exams and AI Business Strategist, 720 on Associate exams and 750 on the current Professional and Specialty exams. Scoring is compensatory, so you don’t need to pass every domain on its own.
Three years. To keep it active, pass the current version of the exam again before it expires, or use the recertification options AWS offers on AWS Skill Builder.
AWS publishes the new exam guide ahead of time and sets a last day for the old version. Each card lists the exam codes you can book today and shows when a new version launches or an old one retires. Check the exam code you’re booked for, and prepare for that version.
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