Accreditation courses

These courses teach business- and technical-focused fundamentals of AWS. Successful course and assessment completion earns you an accreditation to help you grow professionally and satisfy one of your partner organization's AWS Partner Tier Knowledge requirements.

Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.

AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business)

The course provides best practices for co-selling with AWS, including a framework, tools, and funding benefits for AWS Partners. Learn what drives customer cloud adoption and how to overcome common customer objections. Understand the business value of cloud and what set AWS apart.

This course replaces AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business).

Digital | 2.25 hours

AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)

This training provides AWS Partners with fundamental, technical knowledge of AWS cloud computing, global infrastructure, services, common solutions, migration, security, and compliance. Upon successful completion of all assessments in this course, you will earn Accreditation as an AWS Technical Professional.

Digital | 5 hours

AWS Partner: Business courses

Explore our partner-exclusive, digital and classroom solutions training options for business audiences.

Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.

AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor. 

Digital | 6 hours

AWS Partner: Generative AI Sales

In this course, you will learn how to support customers through key phases of their journey, examine use cases and learn how generative AI on Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps customers reinvent their businesses. AWS Partners play a critical role in helping customers harness generative AI’s potential, moving it from the art of the possible to the practical. This course shares the same use cases and customer-engagement best practices that we use to train our internal AWS Sales teams.

Digital | 80 minutes

AWS Partner: AWS for Microsoft Workloads (Business)

In this course, you will learn about the benefits of moving Microsoft workloads to AWS. This course is a non-technical, non-competitive training for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. Partners have the option to take this course with an instructor or online. This live classroom course concludes with a comprehensive digital assessment.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: SAP on AWS (Business)

This course will provide AWS Partners with new market data, case studies, and customer engagement models to help partners identify SAP workload opportunities for their customers.

Digital | 2 hours

 

AWS Partner: Amazon Connect (Business)

This course introduces the business benefits of setting up a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect. You will learn about the Amazon Connect Partner Program, as well as how to solve customer challenges and discuss the value proposition and pricing model of Amazon Connect to customers.

Digital | 2.5 hours

AWS Partner: Digital Workplace on AWS (Business)

In this course, you will learn how to identify opportunities to build and grow your End User Computing (EUC) practice on AWS. The course introduces AWS EUC solutions, highlights market trends, and covers customer success stories. You will learn how to position AWS EUC services to customers and how to leverage the AWS tools and resources available to help you grow your business.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: VMware Cloud on AWS (Business)

This course was built to provide AWS Partners an introduction to the VMware Cloud on AWS. Partners will learn the key benefits and use cases to identify and qualify VMware Cloud on AWS opportunities.

Digital | 1 hour

 

AWS Partner: Advanced Migration and Modernization Sales Training

In this course, you'll learn the best practices to adopt as an advanced migration and modernization seller with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You'll also hear directly from AWS experts and learn from their experience to develop and to implement different sales strategies that you can use in the future.

Digital | 2.5 hours

AWS Partner: Data Analytics on AWS (Business)

Learn AWS recommended best practices for effective business discovery conversations, how to align high-level data analytics solutions to customers’ important business initiatives, and how to qualify and validate data analytics business opportunities. In addition, a practice plan will be provided which will be a blueprint for outlining partner 12-month strategies and goals.

Digital | 3.5 hours

 

AWS Partner: IoT on AWS (Business)

This course provides an overview of current market trends and AWS products and services for IoT. Partners will learn how to describe the AWS IoT value proposition, identify and qualify IoT opportunities, handle customer objections, discuss pricing considerations, and accelerate IoT adoption.

Digital | 4 hours

 

AWS Partner: Migrating to AWS (Business)

This course focuses on the value proposition of migrating IT workloads to the AWS Cloud and building a migration practice with AWS. Partners will learn the three phases of a migration: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate and Modernize; how to build a business case; and the business drivers and sales approach for migrations.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: Machine Learning on AWS (Business)

In this course, you’ll learn how to identify and qualify customer machine learning (ML) opportunities, how to help customers navigate the ML solution-building process, and how to use that experience to build an AWS ML solutions practice.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: Security Governance at Scale (Business)

This course covers how to qualify customer opportunities around security governance at scale. You’ll learn about AWS account management, cost control, security, and compliance through automation—along with best practices for establishing an automated, simplified, and secure framework for governance at scale.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: Analytics on AWS – Sales Best Practices

In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing opportunities in AWS analytics services and solutions. It covers basic analytics concepts, introduces core AWS services, and provides practical resources to help you begin working with customers.

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: Windows on AWS – Sales Best Practices

In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing Windows on AWS opportunities. The course covers common customer use cases and resources available to help you accelerate customer opportunities

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: Modern Applications on AWS – Sales Best Practices

In this course, you’ll learn best practices for identifying and developing opportunities around modern applications on AWS. It covers three customer use case scenarios, how to anticipate potential barriers, and how to engage AWS Partner resources so you can start building your customer pipeline.

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: Migration Business Case

In this advanced-level course, you’ll learn methodologies to build more effective business cases to help customers understand the value of migrating to the cloud. You will explore three types of analyses that pull together the business case for moving to AWS – Business value analysis, Directional business case, and Detailed business case.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: AWS GovCloud (US) Essentials (Business)

This course course provides a comprehensive, fundamental understanding of AWS GovCloud (US) and why several types of customers can benefit from this service. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at AWS Partners interested in gaining a non-technical understanding of AWS GovCloud.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: Machine Learning (Sales)

This intermediate level course shares the same artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) use cases and customer-engagement best practices AWS uses to train its internal sales teams. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals who want to have business-level conversations with buyer personas and identify qualified customer opportunities for key AI/ML use cases.

Digital | 1 hour

AWS Partner: Pricing and Licensing

This fundamental course covers how to explain the basics of AWS pricing and licensing to customers, including the fundamental AWS pricing philosophy, pricing components, and pricing models for AWS core services. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a non-technical knowledge of AWS, use cases, and common solutions.

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: Security and Compliance

This fundamental course covers fundamental of AWS cloud security and compliance, including how security is managed with AWS, how to respond to customer concerns or objections about security and compliance in cloud adoption and how to identify resources for additional information. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a non-technical knowledge of AWS, use cases, and common solutions.

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: AWS for Data (Sales)

This intermediate course covers the business value of data solutions, points of entry in customer accounts, call simulations with key buyer personas, and AWS programs to progress opportunities—the same best practices AWS uses to train its internal sales teams. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to have business-level conversations with buyer personas and identify qualified customer opportunities for key data use cases.

Digital | 70 minutes

AWS Partner: Generative AI on AWS Essentials (Business)

This fundamental course shares the same use cases and customer engagement best practices we use to train our internal AWS Sales teams. You will learn the basics of generative AI, examine key customer use cases and personas, and learn how generative AI on AWS helps customers reinvent their businesses. Upon passing the assessment, you will earn the Generative AI Essentials digital badge. We recommend the course for customer-facing or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization and any other partner learners who are interested in gaining a non-technical knowledge of the basics of generative AI on AWS.

Digital | 65 minutes

AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials

This course is designed to prepare sales professionals and other customer-facing roles to engage customers in migration discussions. By the end of the course, learners will be able to articulate the value of moving to the cloud and understand how to effectively use the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) benefits for migration opportunities.

Digital | 80 minutes

AWS Partner: Selling Into the Public Sector

This fundamental course covers how to engage with and sell AWS services to public sector customers. We recommend the course for customer-facing, alliance leads or sales professionals at an AWS Partner organization who want to gain a basic understanding of the public sector.

Digital | 40 minutes

AWS Partner: Modern Applications (Sales)

This course helps you gain non-technical knowledge of AWS, modern application use cases, and common solutions to facilitate business-level conversations with key buyer personas. In this course you’ll work through a use case, access presentations, online resources, call simulations, and complete knowledge checks, while learning the same customer-engagement best practices AWS uses to train its own internal sales teams. 

Digital | 30 minutes

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics

This course introduces partners to the benefits of migrating their customers to the AWS Cloud. Partners will learn about cost savings and data center economics in relation to cloud computing.

Digital | 2.5 hours

AWS Partner: Data Foundations on AWS (Business)

This course will delve into how an organization's data is key in developing generative AI applications that create real value for your customers. You will learn the challenges businesses face with generative AI and how a strong data foundation is crucial in advancing generative AI applications from proof-of-concept to production.

Digital | 1.5 hours

AWS Partner: Technical courses

Explore our partner-exclusive, digital and classroom solutions training options for technical audiences.

Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.

AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor. 

Digital | 6 hours

AWS Partner: AWS Mainframe Modernization Automated Refactor Transformation Center (Technical)

This intermediate course covers how to transform and refactor mainframe legacy applications from COBOL to Java, through AWS Blu Insights, and how to use AWS Mainframe Modernization Automated Refactor Transformation Center to resolve code errors and create code refactoring. We recommend the course for technical learners who gather modernization requirements and want to implement custom transformations.

Digital | 1 hour 15 minutes

AWS Partner: AWS for Microsoft Workloads (Technical)

This technical course is designed to teach APN Partners how to discuss the technical advantages of AWS for Microsoft workloads.

Digital | 6 hours

AWS Partner: SAP on AWS (Technical)

This course teaches the technical fundamentals of running SAP on AWS. It is designed to teach pre-sales engineers at APN Consulting Partner organizations how to discuss the key architectural patterns for running SAP on AWS.

Digital | 3.5 hours

AWS Partner: Amazon Connect (Technical)

Partners will learn the technical details of provisioning, configuring, and managing Amazon Connect for a contact center.

Digital | 1.5 hours

AWS Partner: Digital Workplace on AWS (Technical)

This course provides a technical introduction to AWS End User Computing (EUC) services Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0. You will learn how to answer common technical questions when discussing these solutions and how to provision, configure, and manage these services.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: Machine Learning on AWS (Technical)

Learn the technical fundamentals of the machine learning (ML) process, how to create and deploy an ML model at scale using Amazon SageMaker, and how to identify opportunities and engage customers in ML discussions.

Digital | 6 hours

AWS Partner: Migration Essentials (Technical)

Formerly AWS Partner: Migrating to AWS (Technical). This technical course provides APN Partner solutions architects with methodologies and best practices for applying and executing migration readiness assessment and planning activities, and how to perform migrations by employing migration tools and services.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: VMWare Cloud on AWS (Technical)

This course provides a technical introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS. It covers the core architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS’s software-defined data center (SDDC) service, plus how foundational VMware compute, storage, networking, security, and management components interact with AWS services.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: Containers on AWS (Technical)

This course provides AWS Partners with an introduction to AWS container solutions, including container platforms, benefits, and use cases. The course introduces the range of AWS container services and adjacent technologies, including an exploration of AWS design considerations and best practices.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: Modernizing Your Application on AWS

This course covers how to modernize your software application using a scalable, self-healing architecture on AWS. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) you will learn design patterns for optimizing applications using AWS managed services. You will also review how to incorporate a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for deployment.

Digital | 2.5 hours

AWS Partner: IoT on AWS (Technical)

This technical course provides an overview of the current market trends and ecosystem of the IoT segment. Partners will learn about the AWS IoT platform and various AWS IoT services, IoT solution lifecycle and common design patterns for deploying AWS IoT services and how to help accelerate customer IoT adoption.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: Data Analytics on AWS (Technical)

Partners will learn how to successfully engage with data-driven customers, discuss five data analytics technical solutions, and make architectural decisions based on AWS-recommended best practices. After completing this course, partners will understand how to build a serverless data lake architecture using an AWS CloudFormation template while making business decisions using the Data Flywheel approach.

Digital | 4 hours

AWS Partner: Security Governance at Scale (Technical)

This course covers AWS-recommended cloud security best practices for establishing continuous governance and management at scale. Partners will be able to help their customers scale with agility and innovation while providing the visibility, control, and governance to protect sensitive data and systems.

Digital | 4 hours


AWS Partner: Migrating Your Application to AWS (Technical)

In this course designed for AWS ISV Partners, you will learn the technical fundamentals and best practices of migrating your application from on-premises deployments to a single-tenant, highly available AWS Cloud solution.

Digital | 4.5 hours

AWS Partner: Well-Architected Best Practices (Technical)

This course is designed to provide a deep dive into the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its 5 pillars. The Well-Architected Framework enables you to make informed decisions about your customers architectures in a cloud-native way and understand the impact of design decisions that are made.

Digital | 2 hours

AWS Partner: Mainframe Discovery Approach and Questions (Technical)

This fundamental level course covers how to better gather required technical information for each modernization activity. We recommend the course for technical learners who want to understand how to use the prescribed discovery approach of Mainframe questions assessment in the AWS Assessment Tool.

Digital | 1 hour

AWS Partner: Mainframe Modernization Proof of Concept Scoping with AWS Blu Insights (Technical)

This intermediate course covers how to narrow a Proof of Concept (POC) scope to transform the legacy codebase of a mainframe application, and how to define the POC perimeter with Blu Insights tool. We recommend the course for both technical and business learners who want to understand how to analyze legacy applications and qualify mainframe refactoring projects.

Digital | 1 hour 10 minutes

AWS Partner: End-to-End Blu Age Refactoring Process (Technical)

This intermediate level course covers the refactoring process of a legacy mainframe application. You will learn how AWS Blu Age powers the automated refactoring pattern within the AWS Mainframe Modernization service. We recommend the course for technical learners who want to accelerate the modernization of mainframe applications.

Digital | 1 hour

AWS Partner: IBM z/OS Essentials (Technical)

This fundamental level course provides an overview of IBM mainframes and z/OS. We recommend the course for technical and business learners who want to better understand mainframe ecosystems, application components, architecture, data formats, file systems, and external system integrations.

Digital | 1 hour

Solutions training for Partners: Professional services courses

This courses were designed to help those in technical roles develop and extend professional services competencies for AWS customer implementations. Choose from training by advisory services or solutions.

Course availability varies regularly. Check back later if no classes are available for your desired course.

AWS Partner: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

This course helps you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud so you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. Access the digital training for on-demand learning, or access the classroom training option to be led by an expert AWS instructor. 

Digital | 6 hours