AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Beginner 14 hours English Professional CertificateFREE
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The only official AWS prep course for the new AIF-C01 exam — taught by the team that wrote the exam.
What you'll learn
Explain core AI, ML, and generative AI concepts in business terms
Identify appropriate AWS AI/ML services for common use cases
Use Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications
Understand foundation models, prompt engineering, and RAG
Apply responsible AI principles and bias mitigation
Recognize security and compliance considerations for AI on AWS
Prepare confidently for the AIF-C01 certification exam
This course includes
14h
On-demand video
40+
Readings
6
Practice quizzes
Yes
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Syllabus· 5 courses · 19+ lessons
- What is AI, ML and deep learning
- Common ML use cases
- Types of ML: supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement
- AWS AI/ML stack overview
- Foundation models and LLMs
- Prompt engineering basics
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Amazon Bedrock walkthrough
- Choosing the right foundation model
- Fine-tuning vs prompt engineering
- Embeddings and vector search
- Agents and tool use
- Bias, fairness and explainability
- Amazon SageMaker Clarify
- Governance and human oversight
- AI data security on AWS
- IAM for AI services
- Compliance frameworks for AI workloads
- AIF-C01 exam preparation
Instructor
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AWS Training and Certification
Official AWS curriculum team
8.5M learners170 courses 4.7 instructor rating
AWS Training and Certification builds and maintains the official learning content used by Amazon engineers and partners worldwide. This course is the official prep path for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam released in 2024.
Requirements
- No prior AWS or AI experience required
- General familiarity with cloud computing concepts is helpful
- AWS Free Tier account if you want to follow hands-on labs
- About 4–6 hours per week for 3 weeks
Who this course is for
- Business and product professionals exploring AI on AWS
- IT staff preparing for the AIF-C01 certification
- Sales, marketing and operations roles working with AI products
- Career switchers entering the AI/ML field
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Frequently asked questions
Yes for non-engineers — it is the first foundational AI cert AWS has shipped, and recruiters at AWS partners are actively asking for it. Engineers should pair it with ML Specialty later.
Pick AWS if your company runs on AWS or you want a recognized vendor cert. Pick Google AI Essentials if you want a faster, more generic intro to using AI tools at work.
No. This is a non-engineering cert. You will see code snippets but you are not asked to write any. SageMaker labs are optional click-through walkthroughs.
It is the easiest AWS exam — 65 multiple choice, 90 minutes, 700/1000 to pass. Most learners finish this course and pass with one week of review.
Audit this course for free for the knowledge, then take Google AI Essentials (also auditable). You skip the badge but gain the same fundamentals.