Evaluating Generative AI on AWS

Amazon Bedrock now provides several evaluation paths for production generative AI: automated model evaluations, LLM-as-a-judge evaluations, human evaluation workflows, and RAG evaluations for Bedrock Knowledge Bases or external retrieval systems. The AIP-C01 exam is the closest current AWS certification target for professionals expected to make these production evaluation decisions. The important shift is from testing… Read More »

Amazon AWS SCS-C03: Tough Topics Worth Practicing

The SCS-C03 exam covers Detection, Incident Response, Infrastructure Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, and Security Foundations and Governance. The difficult topics are where several AWS policy, identity, network, encryption, or organizational layers interact in one request. Candidates improve fastest by practicing failure states: a cross-account role that almost works, a KMS-encrypted resource with… Read More »

RAG on AWS: Retrieval and Vector Design

Retrieval-augmented generation on AWS is no longer just “embed documents and search a vector index.” Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports managed and customer-managed retrieval patterns, metadata filtering, reranking, multimodal data, and agentic retrieval. For certification context, the AIP-C01 exam is the closest current AWS role target for professionals building production generative-AI applications. The design… Read More »

Amazon AWS SCS-C03: Study Plan: What to Practice

The SCS-C03 exam is the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty assessment. AWS’s current guide divides the scored content into Detection, Incident Response, Infrastructure Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, and Security Foundations and Governance. A productive study plan should build one multi-account security environment and use it repeatedly for logging, IAM, network control,… Read More »

Amazon Bedrock: Models, Agents and Guardrails

Amazon Bedrock is AWS’s managed foundation-model platform for building generative-AI applications with model access, retrieval, evaluation, safety controls, and agentic capabilities. The AIP-C01 exam is the closest current AWS certification target for professionals who need production depth around foundation-model integration and generative-AI applications. The platform has also changed materially in 2026: Amazon Bedrock itself remains… Read More »

Amazon AWS SCS-C03: What the Exam Tests

The SCS-C03 exam is the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty assessment. AWS’s 2026 exam guide organizes the scored content into Detection, Incident Response, Infrastructure Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, and Security Foundations and Governance. The exam is designed for professionals responsible for securing AWS cloud solutions. It is not a general security-theory… Read More »

AWS AI Certifications by Skill Level

AWS now offers a distinct AI certification path that ranges from foundational AI literacy through machine-learning engineering and professional generative-AI development. The clearest entry point is AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01, which validates foundational AI, ML, and generative-AI knowledge in an AWS context. The path is not strictly linear. Business professionals, ML engineers, GenAI developers,… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAA-C03: Certification Path

The SAA-C03 exam is the current AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate assessment and remains one of the broadest technical architecture credentials in the AWS certification family. AWS uses it to validate the ability to design solutions aligned to the Well-Architected Framework across security, resilience, performance, and cost. SAA-C03 sits between foundational cloud awareness and… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAP-C02: Certification Path

The SAP-C02 exam is the current AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam on October 4, 2026. AWS has announced that registration for SAP-C03 opens October 27, SAP-C02 delivery ends November 16, and SAP-C03 general availability begins November 17. That creates an unusual career-planning moment: SAP-C02 is still a valid professional credential target today, but… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAA-C03: Thinking Through Scenarios

The SAA-C03 exam validates the ability to design secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Scenario questions become difficult because several AWS services can usually satisfy the functional requirement. The best approach is to identify the hidden constraint before choosing the service. Ask what must be secure, what failure must… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAP-C02: Better Scenario Reasoning

The SAP-C02 exam remains the live AWS Solutions Architect – Professional version on October 4, 2026. AWS has announced that SAP-C03 registration opens October 27, SAP-C02 delivery ends November 16, and SAP-C03 begins November 17. For candidates taking SAP-C02, the most important scenario skill is ranking several technically valid architectures against the actual business constraints.… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAA-C03: Skills Candidates Struggle With

The SAA-C03 exam is built around secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architecture. Candidates usually struggle when several AWS services can satisfy the functional requirement and the correct answer depends on nonfunctional details such as failure scope, operational burden, latency, identity boundaries, or cost. The hardest skills are therefore comparative. You need to recognize which design… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAP-C02: What to Practice More

The SAP-C02 exam remains the live AWS Solutions Architect – Professional version on October 4, 2026, with SAP-C03 scheduled to replace it in November. Candidates sitting SAP-C02 before its final delivery date should keep preparation focused on the current professional architecture skills rather than mixing future-version details into the plan. The topics that deserve extra… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAA-C03: A Practical Study Plan

The SAA-C03 exam validates associate-level AWS architecture across four domains: secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized design. A practical plan should therefore train comparison and tradeoff skills rather than turn into a catalog of AWS services. The most efficient approach is to keep one workload alive for the entire study cycle. Start with a simple web… Read More »

Amazon AWS SAP-C02: How to Study

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is in a transition window. The SAP-C02 exam remains the live version on October 4, 2026, but AWS has announced that SAP-C03 registration opens October 27, SAP-C02 delivery ends November 16, and SAP-C03 begins November 17. That timing should change your study decision. If you are already close to… Read More »