From instructor-led courses to hands-on labs in live AWS accounts, we offer a full range of AWS courses and certifications.
We offer the entire range of AWS official courses, most of which are aligned with their certifications.
Below is a list of our most popular AWS courses, including a brief outline, the exam that they align with and the number of days the course runs for.
This fundamental-level, one-day, instructor-led classroom course is intended for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. Aligned with the Cloud Practitioner exam.
This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. Aligned with the Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
Pre-requisites: Candidates must hold the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Intended for individuals who are experienced with designing scalable and elastic applications on the AWS platform it builds on concepts introduced in Architecting on AWS. Aligned with the Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.
Helps developers understand how to use the AWS SDK to develop secure and scalable cloud applications. Aligned with the Certified Developer – Associate exam.
Designed to teach those in a Systems Administrator or Developer Operations (DevOps) role how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. Aligned with the Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Pre-requisites: Candidates must hold either the AWS Certified Developer Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.
Demonstrates how to use the most common DevOps patterns to develop, deploy and maintain applications on AWS. Aligned with the Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam.
Learn to build batch data analytics solutions using Amazon EMR, an enterprise-grade Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop managed service.
- Demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud. Aligned with the Certified Security – Specialist exam.
Dives deep into Amazon Lake Formation, Amazon Glue, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Redshift and the current thinking in building and operating data analytics pipelines to turn data into insights.
you will learn about the process of planning and designing both relational and nonrelational databases.
Solve a real-world use case with Machine Learning (ML) and produce actionable results using Amazon SageMaker.
Use the machine learning (ML) pipeline to solve a real business problem in a project-based learning environment.
We recognise that just taking the official AWS course may not be enough for you if you are re-skilling or changing career. We have produced a series of learning paths for various job roles, which include additional courses that will provide additional background knowledge suitable for that job role.
Average salary: £62,000
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Machine Learning Pipelines on AWS AMWSMLP 4 Days £3,735 ex VAT View course Data EngineerAverage salary: £70,000
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Data Warehousing on AWS AMWSDW 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course Planning and Designing Databases on AWS AMWSDPD 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View courseAverage salary: £76,250
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Developing on AWS AMWSD 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course Advanced Developing on AWS AMWSAD 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View courseAverage salary: £90,000
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Architecting on AWS AMWSA 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course Advanced Architecting on AWS AMWSAA 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course AdministratorAverage salary: £45,000
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Cloud Operations on AWS (Systems Operations on AWS) AMWSSO 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course DevOps Engineering on AWS AMWSDE 3 Days £2,890 ex VAT View course Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) AMWSAEKS 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course AdministratorAverage salary: £45,000
Fundamentals Fundamentals AWS Technical Essentials AMWSE 1 Day £990 ex VAT View course Intermediate Intermediate Cloud Operations on AWS (Systems Operations on AWS) AMWSSO 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View course Security Engineering on AWS AMWSSEC 3 Days £2,885 ex VAT View courseWith businesses increasingly relying on cloud computing in day-to-day operations, having individuals who are skilled and certified in software such as AWS has never been so important.
As one of the most used and recognised platforms in the world of cloud computing, there are many benefits for both individuals and businesses in becoming AWS certified.
Certification is a matter of demonstrating your skills and establishing your credibility. Achieving credentials could open doors to get heavily involved in AWS-related projects, or present to clients as a credible subject-matter expert.
Of course, if you are job-hunting, just having 'AWS Certified' on your CV will probably not get you hired, but it could help you get you past various gatekeepers and into an interview room. Businesses do not always have an easy way of testing the competencies of a job applicant. Also, they may be sifting through tonnes of CVs, so having the certification certainly gets you the wanted attention.
Whether having an AWS certification guarantees you a higher salary is a question you may be asking. Now this is very difficult to comment on, but this 2023 PC Magazine article, which lists the ten highest-paying IT certifications, includes three AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional at number one!
Having AWS-certified employees helps to identify skilled team members and reduces the risks when implementing projects on AWS. Having AWS-certified employees can also help you to build your business, as it is one of the criteria for the higher tiers of membership in the AWS Partner Network (APN).
Being a member of the APN gives access to a wide variety of benefits, including training subsidies, AWS usage credits, marketing support and much more. View the APN website for more details.
At QA, we see many learners on our AWS courses who are going on to take the AWS certification exams as part of their employer's APN accreditation.
The rate of change at AWS is astonishing, so AWS certifications expire every three years.
That may seem like a short lifespan, but consider this: in the month of July 2023, AWS made over one hundred and fifty announcements about new features, services and enhancements.
AWS have a recertification policy for the AWS Architect Associate certification, stating it can be renewed by either passing the Associate exam again, or by upgrading to the higher-level Professional certification at a discount. Either way seems appealing when it comes to the end result of being accredited in the constantly changing IT landscape.
