Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

This comprehensive blog post serves as a career roadmap for cybersecurity professionals, detailing the journey from entry-level SOC analyst positions to advanced security architect roles. It explores the evolving landscape of cloud security careers, highlighting essential technical competencies, certification pathways, and emerging opportunities.

Discover July’s new AWS training offerings, including 4 new AWS Builder Labs, a free AWS Cloud Quest for generative AI skills, and enhanced certification prep materials. Plus, get a first look at the upcoming AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate exam, replacing the SysOps Administrator certification with expanded coverage of container technologies.

Learn how to build a comprehensive cloud security strategy with this detailed guide to AWS security training resources. From fundamental courses on AWS Skill Builder to advanced certifications, discover the five essential security pillars that will help you protect your cloud deployments through identity management, network protection, data security, threat detection, and governance.

In April 2025, we launched 14 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 9 new AWS Builder Labs, 4 new Digital Classroom courses, and a new game-based learning offering, AWS Skill Builder Trivia, an immersive learning tool that enables you to create dynamic, multiplayer trivia quizzes for live training sessions and events.

In March 2025, we launched 13 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 9 new AWS Builder Labs, 3 new AWS Jam Journeys, and 1 new Digital Classroom course.

Imagine navigating the same cloud challenges that AWS solutions architects face daily, and proving you can solve them. That’s what AWS Jam Journeys offer through hands-on learning experiences. And, now we’ve reorganized our AWS Jam Journeys to better match your learning paths and the way you interact with AWS services.

In February 2025, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including seven new AWS Builder Labs, four new AWS Jam Journeys, and six major updates to AWS Jam Journeys.

We’re both experienced AWS professionals and have witnessed firsthand how cloud technologies can accelerate mission-critical initiatives and solve complex challenges in regulated industries. AWS Certifications have been an important part of our respective career progression and we’re passionate about sharing our certification experiences to help others. This blog outlines our AWS Certification learning journeys, the impact on our careers, and our best practices to prepare for an AWS Certification exam.

AWS Jam is a unique form of immersive learning in the cloud computing domain that offers an engaging approach to developing AWS skills. This blog post explores the inner workings of AWS Jam and examines the reasons why this innovative learning experience is ideal for cloud enthusiasts, professionals, and organizations alike.

As businesses aim to focus more on their core competencies, they increasingly turn to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to handle the undifferentiated heavy lifting. In today’s blog post, we will focus on the available training from AWS Training and Certification to help support you on your SaaS journey, how to familiarize yourself with the challenges of operating a SaaS business model, and how to think through these problems from the SaaS lens.