• At least 6 months of experience working in AWS Cloud in any role, including sales, financial purchase, or technical
• Basic knowledge of IT services and solutions and their uses in the AWS platform

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Explaining and defining AWS Cloud and its global infrastructure, principles of AWS Cloud architecture, and basic characteristics of operation and deployment of AWS cloud services
• Understanding of the AWS Cloud value proposition
• Knowledge of AWS services, common use cases, and basic security aspects of the AWS platform
• The ability to define pricing models and account management

• 1+ years of experience designing and maintaining AWS applications
• Understanding of AWS services, their uses, and best practices
• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level language for programming
• Highly skilled in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based applications on the AWS platform
• Ability to develop and maintain applications built for Amazon S3, SWS, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, and Beanstalk

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Developing reliable, scalable, cost-effective, robust cloud solutions using AWS
• Explaining the appropriate AWS services for the solution to be created on AWS
• Authorizing AWS SDKs to connect the application with AWS services
• Implementing code-level security for developed AWS applications, as well as code development to optimize the AWS service performance

• 2+ years experience operating and managing applications in AWS
• Considerable experience with code development in at least one high-level programming language
• A deep understanding of testing and automation with programming and scripting languages
• Knowledge of other development processes, like Agile

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems on AWS
• Understanding and implementing the automation of governance processes, security controls, and compliance validations
• The ability to build scalable, available, and robust systems on AWS platform
• Automation of processes with designing, maintenance, and management tools
• Identifying and implementing metrics, monitoring, and logging systems on AWS platform

• 1+ years of experience in operations and management of AWS-based applications
• Ability to guide AWS deployment and operations
• Knowledge of how to operate and maintain AWS-based systems
• Ability to identify and define AWS best practices throughout the entire lifecycle of a project
• Highly skilled at identifying an issue and defining a solution for AWS-based applications

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Developing and managing scalable, available, reliable, and secure systems on AWS platform
• The ability to migrate existing applications on AWS
• Identifying best use for operational AWS practices
• Submitting and retrieving data to and from AWS platform
• Identifying and implementing the appropriate AWS services based on data, computation, and security requirements

There technically are no prerequisites for this certification, however, we recommend that AWS Developers first pass the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam and that AWS Admins pass the AWS SysOps Administrator exam before going for this certification. The key concepts you should know for this exam are similar to those of the Associate certification, just on a more advanced level.

• At least 5 years of experience in IT security
• Experience working on the design and implementation of security solutions
• 2+ years of experience securing AWS workloads
• Experience with security controls for AWS workloads

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Addressing security risks and operations by making decisions that factor security, cost, and deployment complexity
• Implementing data encryption methods, secure internet protocols, and data protection mechanisms
• Implementing AWS security services and features to create a secure production environment

• At least 5 years of experience in creating and implementing network solutions
• Advanced knowledge of AWS networking technologies 

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based applications and systems on AWS platform
• Designing and maintaining of network architecture for AWS services
• Implementing AWS solutions using best practices of AWS architecture
• Automating and analyzing AWS networking tasks

• 1-2 years of experience in development, architecture, or running of machine learning workloads on AWS
• Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization
• Expert-level understanding of machine learning and deep learning frameworks
• Ability to comply with model training, deployment, and operational best practices

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Identifying appropriate machine learning approaches for specific problems
• Designing and implementing machine learning solutions with scalability, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and security.
• Identifying appropriate AWS services for implementing machine learning solutions

• At least 5 years of practical experience and a deep understanding of common data analytics technologies
• At least 2 years of experience in the AWS platform
• Experience in working with AWS services for development, security, design, and maintenance of analytics solutions

The key concepts you should be familiar with for this certification include:

• Defining AWS data analytics services
• Understanding the different approaches to integration between AWS data analytics services
• The ability to explain the relationship between AWS data analytics services and the data life cycle stages of collection, storage, processing, and visualization