AWS Training and Certification Skills Tracker:

Building Modern ApplicationsTrack your growth as you gain skills for building modern applications

There’s a skills gap impacting modern application development that limits the potential of innovation. By changing the way you design, build, and manage applications, you can help innovation thrive. Start building the development and operations skills required to create robust, reliable, secure, and scalable applications that customers love to use and that unleash innovation. With this comprehensive training guide featuring recommended courses from AWS Training and Certification, you can learn the best practices Amazon trusts to train its own application developers. As you build skills and monitor your growth, make sure you keep pace with your modernization goals.

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Look for symbols and icons on the course chart for information about course lengths, training methods (digital, virtual instructor-led, or classroom), and which specific skills you'll learn. Mark your progress on the map by checking the status buttons to indicate which courses are completed, in progress, or not yet started. Click course tiles to learn more about the training course.

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Digital

30 mins

Fundamental

Getting into the Serverless Mindset

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Virtual

3 days

Intermediate

Classroom

Architecting on AWS Getting into the Serverless Mindset

Digital

30 mins

Fundamental

Digital

1 hr, 15 mins

Fundamental

Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications

AWS LambdaFoundations

Digital

1 hr

Fundamental

Authenticating Serverless Apps to the

Enterprise

Digital

25 mins

Advanced

Amazon DynamoDB for Serverless Architectures

Digital

2 hrs

Fundamental

Build and Deploy APIs with a Serverless CI/CD

Digital

45 mins

Intermediate

Developing on AWS

Virtual

3 days

Intermediate

Classroom

DevOps Engineering on AWS

Virtual

3 days

Advanced

Classroom

Architecting Serverless Solutions

Digital

3 hrs

Intermediate

Digital

40 mins

Advanced

Deep Dive on AWS Fargate: Building

Serverless Containers at Scale

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Architecting on AWS

Begin accelerating your journey by first learning the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS. Discover how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding each AWS service and how it fits into cloud-based solutions. Explore best practices and design patterns that will help you architect optimal IT solutions on AWS, then build and explore a variety of infrastructures through guided, hands-on activity. You’ll also learn how to create foundational architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

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Skills learned

The Well-Architected Framework Networking with AWS Core AWS concepts Event-driven scaling Automation Decoupling Serverless designs How to grow your architecture

Virtual Classroom

3 days

Intermediate

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Getting into the Serverless Mindset

Get familiar with the key serverless concepts in this brief training course. Then, start confidently planning your own serverless architectures and applications. In this course, you’ll also gain an understanding of serverless computing and learn how its event-driven orientation influences various aspects of application development, including tasks and environments.

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Digital

30 mins

Fundamental

6

Skills learned

Serverless concepts Plan serverless architectures

and applications Application development Parallelization of tasks Environment management

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AWS Lambda Foundations

Build your modern applications knowledge with an introduction to AWS Lambda. In this training course, you’ll explore the basics, learn about configuration, and connect AWS Lambda to other AWS services. You will also learn about the factors that impact performance and how serverless development and deployment practices differ from those in traditional deployment environments.

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Digital

1 hr

Fundamental

7

Skills learned

Basic configurations to other AWS services

Serverless development Serverless deployment practices

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Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications

Start focusing on the fundamentals of Amazon API Gateway in this introduction. Then, learn how to create APIs and deploy them. This course also covers the many options for managing and metering access to your APIs, as well as key integration tips for connecting APIs to AWS Lambda.

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Digital

1 hr, 15 mins

Fundamental

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Skills learned

Amazon API Gateway Create and deploy APIs API integration with AWS Lambda

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Amazon DynamoDB for Serverless Architectures

This hands-on comprehensive introduction to Amazon DynamoDB will help you learn its core components, how to set up and access them, and how to leverage them for serverless applications. You’ll also explore several other important features of DynamoDB, review best practices, and get an in-depth comparison between this NoSQL service and other SQL solutions.

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Digital

2 hrs

Fundamental

Skills learned

Amazon DynamoDB Build serverless architecture using

DynamoDB Differentiate SQL from NoSQL

database systems Migrate from existing RDMS to

Amazon DynamoDB Monitor performance

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Developing on AWS

Attend this instructor-led virtual classroom session and walk away with concrete AWS Software Development Kit knowledge. In the course, you’ll learn how to use and develop secure and scalable cloud applications. You’ll also interact with real AWS services using code and get hands-on, real-world experience. This course is essential for your modern applications training, as it covers the key concepts, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for AWS SDK as a whole.

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Skills learned

Develop solutions using AWS SDK Authenticate services with AWS IAM Manage and use Amazon S3, Dynamo DB,

and Flexible NoSQL Develop event-driven solutions with Amazon

SWF, SQS, and SNS Monitor applications with Amazon CloudWatch Deploy applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

and CloudFormation

Virtual Classroom

3 days

Intermediate

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DevOps Engineering on AWS

Learn about DevOps engineering, directly from the experts at AWS. In this instructor-led virtual classroom, you’ll explore key tools, best practices, and the cultural philosophies of DevOps. You'll also gain the knowledge you need to develop, deliver, and maintain modern applications and services at high velocity on AWS.

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Virtual Classroom

3 days

Advanced

Skills learned

Continuous integration (CI) Continuous delivery (CD) Microservices Infrastructure as code Monitoring and logging Communication and collaboration

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Build and Deploy APIs with a Serverless CI/CD

Learn how to build an API engine and manage a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline straight from the AWS experts. AWS IoT Architects will guide you through the process of simplifying your DevOps processes using serverless methods. You’ll start by understanding how APIs are currently managed with traditional methods, then you’ll learn real-world best practices, as well as how serverless application methods (SAM) streamline your operations.

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Digital

45 mins

Intermediate

Skills learned

Simplify DevOps processes Serverless application methods

(SAM)

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Architecting Serverless Solutions

Start thinking serverless as you accelerate your modernization journey. This course provides a complete approach to AWS managed services including AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. Learn how to leverage event-driven patterns to power scalable, secure, and serverless modern applications. Then, create your own proof-of-concept serverless architecture that you’ll use for management, testing, auditing, and deployment—all without downtime.

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Digital

3 hrs

Intermediate

Skills learned

Event-driven architectures Serverless application architectures Scaling serverless architectures Securing and monitoring serverless

applications Serverless deployments

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Authenticating Serverless Apps to the Enterprise

Navigate the world of serverless application authentication with real-world examples, sample configurations, and easy-to-follow steps for managing your authentication needs with the help of AWS experts. This short, informative course will show you how to authenticate users back to Active Directory or Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and reveal what lies beyond Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), user databases, and static user registries.

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Digital

25 mins

Advanced

Skills learned

LDAP User databases Static user registries Manage serverless app

authentication needs

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Deep Dive on AWS Fargate: Building Serverless Containers at Scale

Manage scale for your modern applications with this essential course on launching large-scale containerized workloads with AWS Fargate. AWS experts will review key AWS Fargate topics and show you how to get the most out of your container deployment and management strategy.

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Digital

40 mins

Advanced

Skills learned

AWS Fargate

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Validate your modern application development skills

Gain industry-recognized credentials that validate your hard-earned skills. With AWS Certification, you can prove to business leaders and colleagues that you can reinvent how modern applications deliver business value. Your AWS Certified credential will let the world know your applications have the potential to be faster to market, more reliable, less expensive, and more innovative.

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AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Validate your knowledge of core

AWS services, architectures, and best

practices for cloud-based applications.

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Earn your credentials for designing, managing,

operating, provisioning, maintaining, and

automating AWS operational processes.

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