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AWS Machine Learning Engineer Associate (MLA-C02)
Many ML projects stall between experiment and production because the team lacks the AWS operations skills to run them safely. This course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a structured way to close that gap. It treats ML engineering mainly as MLOps, much of it the DevOps and SysOps work your infrastructure staff already know, applied to SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. DevOps engineers, system administrators, and cloud practitioners learn to secure ML environments with IAM and network isolation instead of quick-setup defaults. They also learn to clean messy source data with AWS Glue and Glue DataBrew and to train models with SageMaker built-in algorithms, JumpStart, and Script Mode. The course then covers automating workflows with SageMaker Pipelines, monitoring for bias and drift, and controlling training spend with Spot instances and SageMaker Neo. Later skills extend into foundation models, retrieval augmented generation, and agentic workflows on Amazon Bedrock. Each skill includes exam-style validation questions aligned to the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate (MLA-C02) objectives, plus provided notebooks for hands-on work in each learner's AWS account. Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion, with exports Training Managers can use as evidence while planning a certification push.
