AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI
In this new foundational Twitch training series, you will learn generative AI concepts, gain hands-on experience hosting large language models, fine-tuning LLMs, and using generative AI-powered coding tool Amazon CodeWhisperer.
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Join your AWS expert hosts for this new series that helps you gain the knowledge and skills to apply generative AI concepts.
This 3 episode training series on the AWS Training Live Twitch channel is for beginners to intermediate learners looking for a foundational understanding. The goal is to provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience to utilize Amazon SageMaker for model deployment.
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Join your hosts Erica Vismer, Trevor Spires, and Srilatha Kola for a new series AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI to build your generative AI skills. Get answers to all your questions along with expert tips and demonstrations.
Episode 1: Introduction to Generative AI
In this episode, you will journey to AWS Cloud Quest: Machine Learning Island to explore fundamental generative AI concepts. Dive in, as your hosts show you how to use Amazon SageMaker for generative AI model deployment.
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Watch on demand › Episode 2: Fine-Tuning an LLM on Amazon SageMaker
In this episode, you will continue exploring AWS Cloud Quest: Machine Learning Island, as you set out to help Cloud Quest’s city optimize their generative AI models. Your hosts will demonstrate techniques for fine-tuning a large language model using custom datasets, and you will gain insight into integrating an Amazon SageMaker endpoint into an application.
Episode 3: Build Apps Faster With Amazon CodeWhisperer
In this final episode, you’ll take a detour to AWS Cloud Quest: Serverless Island to help the city’s recreation department speed up their software development pipeline, using Amazon CodeWhisperer. Your hosts will demonstrate how to use Amazon CodeWhisperer to make it easier to write CLI commands and deploy AWS Lambda functions to boost productivity.
AWS Power Hour: Cloud Practitioner, Season 5
Join your hosts Greg Powell, Forest Penland, and Michelle Metzger at twitch.tv/aws to build your skills and prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam. Get answers to all your questions along with expert tips on how to prepare for exam day.
Episode 1: Exam Overview
In this episode, you’ll get to know the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam. By the end of the episode, you should understand what domains and task statements are on the exam and what exam-style questions to expect.
Resources
Exam prep resources
Learning resources
- Sign up for AWSome Day (August 23, 2023) - this free, virtual event helps beginners learn about the 5 key AWS services with help from a technical trainer. You’ll also get free hands on labs and a 50% off voucher you can apply to the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification.
- Overview of Amazon Web Services AWS Whitepaper
- How AWS Pricing Works
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
- AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner
Episode 2: Cloud Concepts
In this episode, you’ll review Domain 1: Cloud Concepts. By the end of the episode, you should be able to define the benefits of the AWS Cloud, identify key design principles, understand migration strategies, and better comprehend cloud economics.
Resources
Exam prep resources
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Offiical Practice Question Set
- Exam Prep Enhanced Course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02 - English) - Domain 1 includes bonus questions and flashcards (Requires Subscription)
Learning resources
- What is AWS?
- What is cloud computing?
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- High availability and scalability in AWS
- Migration and transfer
- Cloud economics in AWS resources
Episode 3: Security and Compliance
In this episode, you’ll review Domain 2: Security and Compliance. By the end of the episode, you should understand the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, cloud governance concepts, AWS access management capabilities, and other key security components.
Resources
Exam prep resources
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Offiical Practice Question Set
- Exam Prep Enhanced Course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02 - English) - Domain 2 includes bonus questions, flashcards, and a lab assessment: Exploring AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge (Requires Subscription)
Episode 4: Cloud Technology and Services
In this episode, you’ll review Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services. By the end of the episode, you should be able to define methods of operating in the AWS Cloud and identify AWS compute, database, network, storage, and other in-scope service resources.
Resources
Exam prep resources
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Offiical Practice Question Set
- Exam Prep Enhanced Course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02 - English) - Domain 3 includes bonus questions, flashcards, and two lab assessments: Exploring Amazon EC2 and Exploring Amazon S3 (Requires Subscription)
Episode 5: Cost Efficiency and Pricing Models
After building our infrastructure in the previous episodes, we’ll focus on cost efficiency and pricing considerations. We’ll review the decisions we’ve made on our journey and discuss the benefits of various pricing models. We’ll even learn how to set up alarms to help you monitor your spending.
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Episode 6: Review and Practice
In this session, you’ll have a chance to test your knowledge as we practice with additional exam-style questions. You’ll also get expert insights and strategies to better prepare for the exam—and don’t forget to ask your hosts to answer any lingering questions!
AWS Power Hour: Cloud Practitioner, Season 4
Whether you’re just beginning your cloud learning journey or preparing to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, there’s a fun and interactive way to achieve your goals. This free 6-episode series will help you learn in-demand cloud skills to take the next step in your career.
Episode 1: AWS Cloud Concepts
We’ll kick off this Twitch series with a high-level overview of the AWS Cloud and review what you might expect to find on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification exam. Next, we'll explore design principles for the AWS Well Architected Framework and how you can apply these principles to your learning.
Resources
- Learn about the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
- Explore and start building on AWS Free Tier
- The AWS Well-Architected Framework
- The AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Learn about AWS Global Infrastructure
- Visit AWS Educate for self-paced training and resources for new-to-cloud learners—including hands-on labs in the AWS Management Console
Episode 2: Security and Compliance
During the second episode, we'll expand on what we covered in the first episode by discussing AWS security and compliance concepts. Starting with the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, we'll address which AWS services can help you secure your AWS account.
Episode 3: Network and Compute Services
The third episode of this Twitch series will focus on core AWS services you can use to build your cloud infrastructure. We’ll work through a variety of network and compute services, such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as you expand your cloud knowledge.
Episode 4: Storage and Database Services
In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into topics around fundamental storage and database services for your cloud environment. In particular, we’ll focus on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
Episode 5: Cost Efficiency and Pricing Models
After building our infrastructure in the previous episodes, we’ll focus on cost efficiency and pricing considerations. We’ll review the decisions we’ve made on our journey and discuss the benefits of various pricing models. We’ll even learn how to set up alarms to help you monitor your spending.
Resources
Episode 6: Review and Exam Prep
As we reach the conclusion of this Twitch series, we’ll look back at the previous episodes to summarize what we’ve learned and prepare for the exam. Then we’ll cover what to expect for the next steps in your journey to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
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AWS Power Hour: Database
Join us live on Twitch at twitch.tv/aws for AWS Power Hour: Database to learn key concepts you’ll want to know if you’re preparing for the AWS Certified Database - Specialty exam. Our hosts will use demonstrations and real world examples to help you learn to design, migrate, deploy, monitor, and secure databases on the AWS Cloud. Stay with us for a 30-minute live forum opportunity to ask your questions and get help from AWS experts.
Friday, October 7, 2022
8:00am - 9:30am PT
Episode 1: Introduction to Designing Databases on AWS
In the first episode of our AWS Power Hour: Database series, we will review the certification exam guide and resources for you to study as we progress through this series. We will then introduce you to designing a database on AWS. We’ll talk about the differences between database types and using AWS Managed Services or deploying a database on an EC2 instance.
Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox
Friday, October 14, 2022
8:00am - 9:30am PT
Episode 2: Database Deployment and Migration
In this episode, you’ll learn about costs around AWS database solutions, followed by a discussion of how to deploy your database in the AWS Cloud. We will finish the episode by working through data preparation and migration strategies using native database and AWS managed tools.
Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox
Friday, October 21, 2022
8:00am - 9:30am PT
Episode 3: Database Management, Operations, and Security
In this episode, you’ll learn about management and governance. We will talk about database security, controlling access, and automating operational tasks. This includes backups, encryption, and upgrading your database.
Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox
Friday, October 28, 2022
8:00am - 9:30am PT
Episode 4: Database Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Monitoring databases is a critical component to ensure we have a healthy workload with properly provisioned resources. In this episode, we will review the tools available for us to react, respond, and troubleshoot as needed. Once we have our database monitored, we will also discuss some performance optimization options for different AWS database solutions.
Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox
Friday, November 4, 2022
8:00am - 9:30am PT
Episode 5: Review and Prepare for the Certification Exam
In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Database, we will review topics from the previous four episode. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Database - Specialty certified.
Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
10:30am - 11:30am PT / 1:30pm - 2:30pm ET
Episode 6: AWS cloud quest - cloud computing essentials
In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.
Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes
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AWS Power Hour: Advanced Networking
Join us live on Twitch at twitch.tv/aws for AWS Power Hour: Advanced Networking to learn key concepts you’ll want to know if you’re preparing for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty exam. Our hosts will use demonstrations and real world examples to help you learn to design, implement, operate, and secure networks on the AWS Cloud. Stay with us for a 30-minute live forum opportunity to ask your questions and get help from AWS experts.
Friday, October 7, 2022
9:30am – 11:00am PT
Episode 1: Network Design
Join us to learn about designing networks on AWS—including AWS Regional resources, on-premises resources, and edge network services—to achieve a design that supports global traffic reliably. This episode will focus on an overview of services and features to use, rather than their configuration or implementation. You’ll learn about high availability, scalability, and DNS.
Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief
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Friday, October 14, 2022
9:30am – 11:00am PT
Episode 2: Network Implementation
In this episode, you’ll learn about implementing routing strategies to support global traffic reliably. We’ll look at routing options with AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and VPNs.
Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief
Friday, October 21, 2022
9:30am – 11:00am PT
Episode 3: Network Management & Operation
An observability strategy is key to understanding the health and security of our networks. In this episode, you’ll learn about options like VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch, Route 53 health checks, and VPC Traffic Mirroring. We’ll wrap-up by discussing how to automate network operations on AWS.
Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief
Friday, October 28, 2022
9:30am – 11:00am PT
Episode 4: Network Security, Compliance, and Governance
In our final episode, we’ll be focusing on AWS inbound and outbound network security features and services, such as AWS WAF, Shield, and Network Firewall. We’ll also discuss inter- and intra-VPC security features such as security groups, network ACLs, and VPC endpoint policies. And with any time remaining, we’ll wrap-up with network encryption options.
Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief
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AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning
Join us live on Twitch at twitch.tv/aws for AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning to learn key concepts you’ll want to know if you’re preparing for the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty exam. Our hosts will use demonstrations and real world examples to help you learn to develop, architect, and run machine learning workloads in the AWS Cloud. Stay with us for a 30-minute live forum opportunity to ask your questions and get help from AWS experts.
Friday, October 7, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm PT
Episode 1: Introduction to Machine Learning on AWS
In the first episode of the AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning series, we will introduce you to the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty exam and cover the exam guide. Then, we will go into details about the data engineering phase of machine learning lifecycle on AWS.
Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas
Friday, October 14, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm PT
Episode 2: Exploratory Data Analysis
The second episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning will focus on data preparation, feature engineering and visualization techniques on AWS.
Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas
Friday, October 21, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm PT
Episode 3: Modeling
Since the modeling domain is 36% of the certification exam, this topic deserves an entire episode to itself! In this episode, you’ll learn about training, hyper-parameter tuning, and model evaluation.
Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas
Friday, October 28, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm PT
Episode 4: Security, Operations, and the Certification Exam
In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning, we will discuss best practices to help you deploy secure and resilient machine learning workloads on AWS. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty.
Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas