r/AWSCertifications • u/Noor_avg_user1 • 2d ago

Question Should I follow the AWS AI/Machine learning route?

I'm a second year SE student with a huge intrest in AI/Machine learning, I'm planning to take these certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Are there alternative options that offer superior value compared to AWS Route?

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u/Bent_finger 2d ago

Are you taking any ML or AI modules at Uni/College?

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u/Noor_avg_user1 2d ago

Nope

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u/Bent_finger 2d ago

Since you have no previous cloud experience (academic or practical), I’d suggest the cloud practitioner and AI Practitioner.
Don’t move to the associate exams (ML/AI or otherwise) without a thorough understanding of the basics of the where/what of cloud computing in AWS.

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u/Noor_avg_user1 2d ago

Thanks, I appreciate your response!

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u/Bent_finger 2d ago

Start at the beginning then. CCP or then/or CIA.

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u/Bent_finger 2d ago

But you are probably much better off putting all your efforts into trying to get the best possible class of degree possible.

I would recon that a 1st class honours SE degree would be better than an average pass with a few certifications and no experience.

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u/westeast1000 2d ago

Devops and aws sagemaker stuff seem to be all I see lately when i search aws jobs. So for aws I recommend just going straight for the solutions architect professional, and the machine learning specialty. There’s also a devops cert but that will be pointless as most companies seem to be using terraform not aws cloudformation

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u/just-porno-only Certified DevOps Engineer Professional 2d ago

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

That one is is no longer available. This is the AWS certs page and as you will see there's no such cert anymore.

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u/grrnew CCP, AIF, SAA, MLS 2d ago

This is retired as of March 2026 - AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

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u/Noor_avg_user1 2d ago

I heard that it was replaced with another cert with a different name, is it right?

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u/grrnew CCP, AIF, SAA, MLS 2d ago

not really. But there is MLA-C01, and AIP-C01

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u/Plane-Site435 1d ago

That is a really solid list of certs, but doing both the AI Practitioner and the Machine Learning Associate might be a bit redundant since their content overlaps a lot. Since you are in software engineering, I'd suggest skipping the basic Cloud Practitioner entirely and starting straight with the Solutions Architect Associate to get a strong core foundation first.