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New Exam Announcement - AWS Certified AI Business Strategist

AWS Certified AI Business Strategist just got announced, in-beta as of two days ago. It's a new category of "Business" certifications.

This is explicitly a test meant for business people assessing AI projects, as opposed to a test of AWS service technical knowledge.

For rigor, the final version of the exam will have the same length as an Associates exam. (The beta goes longer, as is usual.)

Looking at the exam guide, I think the content looks very interesting; I think we could use more exams that test tradeoffs and compromises, expectation-setting, and goes over risk analysis. Really, it's an interesting list of topics to cover.

They've published a corresponding SkillBuilder learning path, with full prep classes specifically written for the exam.

I think I'll definitely put the beta on my To-Do list; it looks really interesting. And as a pre-sales architect, I think it'll help me learn how to explain the why of all this AI stuff instead of just the how.

Get it while it's hot! $50 while in beta!

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u/Sirwired — 1 month ago
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Well, at Least LAOP Didn't Claim Harvey (or Thor-the-Bunny) Got Him Drunk, Drove the Car, Parked It In the Middle of the Road, Gave Him His Car Keys Back, Then Disappeared With LAOP Lying in a Ditch - Or Maybe Thor Called Himself "Dave"

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u/Sirwired — 3 months ago
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Big News: Can now do 1-yr renewals for several Assoc/Pro exams with SkillBuilder

You've been able to renew Cloud Practitioner with CloudQuest for quite a while. They have now added the ability to do one-year renewals (they call this "maintaining") your certification with (paid) SkillBuilder training, once you complete a defined curriculum.

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/recertification/

https://skillbuilder.aws/certification/recertification

Currently covers Cloud Practitioner, CloudOps Assoc., Architect Assoc., Developer Assoc., Architect Pro, and DevOps Pro.

(This is still in Beta, and subject to change.)

This is a little more rigorous than Azure's cert renewals (which are a joke... you can skip all the training, and take the exams Open-PC.) This requires you to actually complete the training.

The program still appears to have a few hitches... For example, I'd love to tell you more about the curriculum, but... all my certs are under my personal email, and my SkillBuilder subscription is through work, so it won't even let me look at the renewal curriculum, because I "earned" the cert yet. I suspect this will get fixed.

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u/Sirwired — 4 months ago
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A really cool, non-AI, announcement out of NY Summit: S3 Annotations

If you are tired of reading All AI, All the Time, here's a refreshing reminder that AWS still works on other services! S3 Annotations!

You can attach up to 1,000 1MB items of additional metadata to each object. Think of them like tags on steroids. (Much bigger, and you get 100x as many of them.) The given sample use case is storing the transcript of a video right there alongside the video itself, instead of having to set up and maintain a parallel data store outside of S3. (Orphaned data becomes a real issue there.) Another example was audit logging. Again, no need to store that data elsewhere, like having to rely on Cloudwatch or CloudTrail logs you'll need to reconcile later. Full S3 URLs to transcoded versions of a file. The possibilities are pretty vast...

All billed at S3 Standard rates; no annotation-specific charges! (Note that they are billed at S3 Standard no matter the class of the parent object; something to keep in mind before going hog-wild creating large annotations on large volumes of small-ish objects you plan on burying in the archives.)

The annotations can be replicated to an Iceberg S3 table for query by Athena or any other Iceberg tool!

They are under S3 replication for DR purposes!

CRUD ops don't require a new object version or object overwrite.

Annotations are not automatically copied to new versions of an object when an object is overwritten, so probably not ideal for use cases with mutable objects.

Overall I think it sounds really neat, and I wish the announcement had gotten more attention.

u/Sirwired — 4 months ago