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AWS Generative AI Developer Advanced Specialization

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Generative AI Developer Advanced Specialization

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Advanced level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply prompt engineering techniques, agentic AI patterns, and FM API integrations to build enterprise-scale generative AI solutions.

  • Evaluate generative AI outputs for relevance, accuracy, and hallucination detection.

  • Design secure, cost-optimized, and responsible AI architectures.

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Specialization - 22 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define generative AI and understand its core capabilities

  • Describe the role and responsibilities of a generative AI developer

  • Recognize the key skills and knowledge areas you will develop

Skills you'll gain

Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Software Development
Category: Vector Databases
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Embeddings
Category: Generative Model Architectures
Category: Multimodal Prompts
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Prompt Patterns
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Generative AI
Gen AI Dev- Select and Configure Foundation Models

Gen AI Dev- Select and Configure Foundation Models

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Implement model evaluation frameworks

  • Design flexible routing strategies

  • Build resilient AI systems with AWS services

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Generative AI
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Software Development
Category: Application Frameworks
Category: Software Design
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Machine Learning
Category: LLM Application
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Natural Language Processing

What you'll learn

  • Build effective data validation and processing pipelines for foundation models

  • Identify required and optional JSON fields for different foundation models

  • Design synchronized audio-visual workflows using Amazon Transcribe

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Data Quality
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Python Programming
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: JSON
Category: Software Development
Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Validation
Category: Generative AI
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: AI Integrations
Category: Multimodal Prompts
Category: Data Processing
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: API Design
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Data Pipelines

What you'll learn

  • Design and implement vector store solutions

  • Create workflows that automatically sync source data with vector stores

  • Evaluate governance strategies to implement effective version control and deployment practices

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Amazon S3
Category: Amazon DynamoDB
Category: Database Architecture and Administration
Category: Data Maintenance
Category: Data Store
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Software Development
Category: Metadata Management
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Taxonomy
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Generative AI
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Amazon Web Services

What you'll learn

  • Design and implement effective retrieval mechanisms

  • Manage Knowledge Base updates through incremental ingestion and synchronization

  • Construct end-to-end RAG systems by applying standardized interfaces that enforce security controls

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI
Category: API Gateway
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Software Development
Category: API Design
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Scalability
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Restful API
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Document Management
Category: Performance Tuning

What you'll learn

  • Implement enterprise foundation model control systems with Amazon Bedrock

  • Implement validation systems for probabilistic foundation model outputs

  • Apply strategies that integrate advanced prompting with business processes while maintaining governance

Skills you'll gain

Category: Quality Assurance
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Context Management
Category: AI Security
Category: Amazon Bedrock
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Generative AI
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: AI Integrations
Category: Software Development
Category: Governance
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Context Engineering
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: AI Orchestration

What you'll learn

  • Build a question-answering application using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

  • Use the Retrieve and RetrieveAndGenerate APIs to query a knowledge base

  • Run through notebooks that answer questions from enterprise knowledge bases

What you'll learn

  • Implement Strands Agent modular patterns for agent development

  • Describe the core benefits of model extension frameworks for foundation model enhancement

  • Implement a text summarization workflow using Strands Agents, AgentCore, and MCP

Skills you'll gain

Category: AI Workflows
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Software Development
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Agentic systems
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Scalability
Category: Generative AI
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Tool Calling
Category: Model Deployment
Gen AI Dev- Model Deployment Strategies

Gen AI Dev- Model Deployment Strategies

Course 9, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Describe the benefits and use cases for model deployment strategies

  • Design model selection frameworks for generative AI applications

  • Develop safeguarding mechanisms to protect your AI workflows

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Infrastructure Architecture
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Scalability
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Capacity Management
Category: API Gateway
Category: AI Security
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Software Development
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Generative AI
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: Serverless Computing
Gen AI Dev- Enterprise Integration Architectures

Gen AI Dev- Enterprise Integration Architectures

Course 10, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Describe the core principles of enterprise integration architectures for AI systems

  • Describe the benefits of event-driven processing in generative AI applications

  • Implement cross-environment generative AI solutions

Gen AI Dev- Foundation Model API Integrations

Gen AI Dev- Foundation Model API Integrations

Course 11, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Describe the core principles of foundation model API integrations for AI systems

  • Explain the benefits of various streaming patterns for conversational AI

  • Implement conversational AI systems using WebSockets and Server-sent events

What you'll learn

  • Enhance enterprise systems by using AI-assisted AWS services

  • Create automated content enhancement and transformation workflows

  • Use spec-driven development features for complex projects

What you'll learn

  • Use the Amazon Nova Lite model through Amazon Bedrock API for intelligent question answering

  • Identify the limitations of zero-shot prompting and enhance response accuracy by providing context

  • Implement both complete and streaming response generation methods for RAG-based systems

What you'll learn

  • Describe purpose and importance of content input safety controls

  • Identify common techniques for input filtering

  • List best practices for implementing content input safety

What you'll learn

  • Describe defense-in-depth for AI strategy and the seven layer approach

  • Locate resources for AI security best practices

  • Implement secure infrastructure for AI data processing with network isolation using VPC endpoints

What you'll learn

  • Define concepts of compliance, governance, and security

  • Locate AWS resources for compliance programs

  • Use AWS services and tools to implement compliance and governance controls for generative AI applications

What you'll learn

  • Enable model access in Amazon Bedrock

  • Set up a knowledge base using provided sample files in an S3 bucket

  • Test the knowledge base with sample prompts

What you'll learn

  • Implement token estimation and tracking mechanisms to optimize foundation models

  • Design capacity planning strategies for foundation model deployments on AWS

  • Apply monitoring and maintenance best practices for intelligent caching systems

Gen AI Dev- Optimize Application Performance

Gen AI Dev- Optimize Application Performance

Course 19, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Implement pre-computation strategies to reduce query response times

  • Implement Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services to accelerate agent deployment

  • Monitor and analyze API performance metrics to identify optimization opportunities

Gen AI Dev- Implement Monitoring Systems

Gen AI Dev- Implement Monitoring Systems

Course 20, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability systems for generative AI applications

  • Implement call pattern tracking systems that identify usage trends and anomalies

  • Apply optimization techniques for FAISS indexes and approximate nearest neighbor algorithms

What you'll learn

  • Assess generative AI outputs using metrics for relevance, factual accuracy, consistency, and fluency

  • Design quality assurance processes integrating continuous evaluation workflows and regression testing

  • Apply testing methods including A/B testing and multi-model comparison for output quality

Gen AI Dev- Troubleshoot Generative AI Applications

Gen AI Dev- Troubleshoot Generative AI Applications

Course 22, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Describe common issues and challenges of generative AI

  • Describe methods for resolving content handling issues

  • Describe methods for resolving retrieval system issues

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