AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
AWS’s entry-level AI exam: AI, ML and generative AI concepts plus the AWS services behind them. No coding, open to anyone; US$100.
AWS AI Certifications
AWS’s AI certifications are open to anyone, from the no-code AI Practitioner and AI Business Strategist exams to the hands-on ML Engineer and Generative AI Developer exams. Fees run from US$100 to US$300 per attempt. The guides below are listed from the entry-level exam to the hardest.
AWS Certified AI Business Strategist (AIB-C01)
AWS’s first exam for the business side of AI: strategy, ROI, governance and scaling pilots. No coding, open to anyone; US$50 in beta, US$100 after.
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01)
A data engineering exam that supports AI work rather than an AI exam: pipelines, storage and governance on AWS. Open to anyone; US$150.
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01 / MLA-C02)
AWS’s main hands-on ML exam: data prep, training, deployment and monitoring on SageMaker. Open to anyone; US$150 (C02 beta US$75).
AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional (AIP-C01)
AWS’s hardest AI exam: production generative AI apps on Amazon Bedrock with RAG, agents and guardrails. Open to anyone; US$300.