
Explore machine learning, a subset of AI, that learns from data to predict and improve through supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement methods, while noting data quality and black box problem.
Understand the machine learning process from training data to a deployable model, and explore how Amazon SageMaker enables building, training, and deploying ML at scale.
Explore anomaly detection and density estimation in unsupervised learning. See how isolation forest and kernel density estimation reveal patterns with fraud detection and customer segmentation examples.
Learn reinforcement learning where an agent maximizes rewards through trial and error in an environment, using model-based or model-free approaches, and reinforcement learning from human feedback to fine-tune foundation models.
Compare batch and real-time inferencing, focusing on latency and payload size to decide the best approach. See how SageMaker batch Transform and real-time endpoints support these workflows.
Explore Amazon Rekognition, a fully managed computer vision service that analyzes images and videos to detect objects, people, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content, with content moderation and custom labels.
Explore Amazon Rekognition's capabilities, including label detection with confidence scores, image properties analysis, moderation, facial analysis and liveness, celebrity recognition, text extraction, PPE detection, and custom labels.
Explore Amazon Fraud Detector, a fully managed service that enables data preparation in S3, real-time evaluation with a 0 to 1000 risk score, and automated rule-based protection.
Explore Amazon SageMaker AI with its integrated development environment, prebuilt algorithms, and automated training, and map the ML development lifecycle from problem definition to deployment using technical and business metrics.
Navigate the seven-phase machine learning development lifecycle—from business goal identification through ML problem framing, data processing, model development, deployment, monitoring, to retraining—with AWS support.
Explore the machine learning development lifecycle's training, tuning, and evaluation subphases. Learn about data splitting, feature scaling, batch size, learning rate, epochs, and overfitting, with SageMaker guidance.
Map AWS SageMaker AI tools to the ML pipeline components—data preparation, training and tuning, deploy and manage—covering Studio, Unified Studio, Canvas, Data Wrangler, Processing Jobs, and Feature Store.
Learn regression performance metrics—mae, mse, rmse, r-squared, and mape—through a house price example to quantify prediction errors and explained variation.
Explore how SageMaker AI provides end-to-end ML with unified Studio, Jumpstart, and HyperPod, and follow the ML development lifecycle from data processing to deployment, monitoring, and model registry.
Explore the foundation model life cycle from data collection and pre-processing to deployment, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and evaluation. Understand architecture choices and how large-scale data and resources enable general-purpose models.
Explore how generative AI transforms business operations, boosting creativity and streamlining processes. Assess advantages like adaptability and scalability, address biases and security concerns to guide model selection and boost ROI.
Discover the advantages of generative AI, including adaptability, real-time responsiveness, and simplicity. See how creativity, data efficiency, personalization, and scalability enable innovative, scalable solutions across industries.
Explore the disadvantages of generative AI, including toxicity, hallucinations, non-determinism, regulatory violations, and data privacy risks, with mitigations through governance and AWS SageMaker tools.
AWS infrastructure enables generative AI with Bedrock and SageMaker, lowers entry barriers, speeds time to market with pay-as-you-go efficiency, and emphasizes security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
Test chat, text, image, and video models in the Amazon Bedrock playground from providers like AI21 Labs and Anthropic, and compare outputs with adjustable inference settings.
In this walkthrough, we explore the Discover menu in Amazon Bedrock. You'll learn how to navigate the Overview dashboard, dive deeper into the Model Catalog — filtering models by collection (Serverless vs. Marketplace), provider, and modality (Text, Image, Embedding, Speech, Video). You'll learn how to read model detail pages including pricing, specifications, and Model IDs.
We also cover the API Keys section, including the difference between short-term and long-term keys and when to use each.
In this walkthrough, we explore the Test menu. After a brief mention of the Chat/Text and Image/Video playgrounds (covered in previous lectures), we focus on two practical tools: Watermark detection — how to verify whether an image was generated by Amazon's Titan Image Generator or Nova Canvas models using invisible watermark analysis — and the Tokenizer — how to calculate token counts for your prompts before running inference, helping you estimate costs and stay within model context limits.
In this lecture, we explore the first two capabilities in the Infer menu. You'll learn how Cross-region inference uses inference profiles to automatically route requests across AWS Regions for better throughput and resilience. Then we cover Batch inference — how to process large volumes of requests asynchronously using S3 input/output for cost-effective, large-scale processing.
We continue with Provisioned Throughput — how to reserve dedicated model capacity for guaranteed performance and predictable costs in production workloads. Then we cover Custom model on-demand, which lets you deploy fine-tuned or imported models for pay-per-request inference without maintaining always-on infrastructure.
This lecture covers Custom models and the three customization techniques available in Bedrock. You'll learn how Reinforcement fine-tuning uses reward functions instead of labeled data, how Supervised fine-tuning trains models with input-output pairs, and how Distillation creates smaller, faster models from larger teacher models — up to 500% faster at up to 75% lower cost.
We explore Prompt router models (Intelligent Prompt Routing) — how to automatically route requests between a larger and smaller model based on prompt complexity, reducing costs by up to 30% without sacrificing quality. You'll learn how default and custom routers work, how to set quality thresholds, and how the fallback model serves as your cost-saving baseline.
In this lecture, we cover Imported models — how to bring models you've fine-tuned in SageMaker or other environments into Bedrock using Custom Model Import. Then we explore Marketplace model deployments — subscribing to and deploying specialized models from 100+ providers through Bedrock's unified API.
We begin exploring the Build menu with Agents and Flows. You'll learn how Agents orchestrate foundation models, APIs, and data sources to complete tasks autonomously, including multi-agent collaboration. Then we cover Flows — the visual drag-and-drop builder for creating AI workflows using prompt nodes, knowledge base nodes, condition logic, and Lambda functions.
This lecture covers Knowledge Bases (RAG), Automated Reasoning, and Guardrails. You'll learn how Knowledge Bases ground model responses in your proprietary data using Retrieval Augmented Generation. Then we explore Automated Reasoning for mathematically validating responses against business rules, and Guardrails with its six safeguard policies for content filtering, PII protection, and hallucination prevention.
We continue with Prompt Management — centralized prompt creation, versioning, testing with side-by-side comparison, and optimization. Then we cover Data Automation for extracting structured insights from documents, images, video, and audio using blueprints and custom field extraction.
In this lecture, we explore AgentCore — the platform for deploying AI agents at production scale. You'll learn about its modular services: Runtime for auto-scaling, Gateway for API-to-tool transformation, Memory for persistent and episodic storage, Identity for authentication, Browser Tool, and Code Interpreter. We also cover Policy enforcement using Cedar and the built-in Evaluations framework.
We explore the Evaluations capability for testing model and RAG performance. You'll learn about Automatic evaluations (Programmatic and LLM as a Judge), Human evaluations with AWS-managed or your own work teams, and RAG evaluations for testing retrieval quality and response generation. We cover key metrics including correctness, completeness, faithfulness, and responsible AI scoring.
In this final console walkthrough, we cover the Settings page including Model permissions and Model invocation logging. We briefly revisit Model access (serverless models are now enabled by default), and point out the User guide and Bedrock Service Terms resources.
Explore PartyRock, a no-code ai-powered playground built on Amazon Bedrock foundation models. Create ai-powered apps with a widget-based system, without an AWS account, and try a free trial.
Learn six key cost factors for AWS AI services, including on demand vs provisioned pricing, responsiveness, redundancy, hardware options, token pricing, and custom models.
Explore your GenAI toolkit with essential AWS services and features, including Bedrock foundation models, SageMaker, Jumpstart, Party Rock, and Cube, plus security, pricing, and deployment options.
Explore Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases, a fully managed RAC workflow that augments foundation models with private data to deliver accurate, context-aware responses; it covers pre-processing and runtime phases.
Explore foundation model customization methods—pre-training, fine-tuning, continued pre-training, in-context learning, prompt engineering, and rag—alongside cost and implementation considerations in Amazon Bedrock.
Explore prompt engineering and AI vulnerabilities, define zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting with templates, and learn best practices for clear prompts with context and output considerations while avoiding jailbreaking.
Explore prompt engineering techniques to optimize AI responses, including zero-shot prompting, single-shot prompting, few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought prompting, and prompt templates, using instructions, context, input data, and output indicator.
Master prompt engineering by optimizing instructions, context, output indicators, and formats for higher quality and specificity. Apply best practices, break down tasks, and experiment iteratively.
Explore AI vulnerabilities—exposure, poisoning, hijacking, and prompt injection—and learn how to secure AI applications on AWS and in cloud environments.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Welcome. This course takes you from no AI background to exam-ready for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) certification.
My name is Vladimir Raykov, and I will be your instructor. I earned the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification in November 2024 and the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional in December 2025, and I hold the AWS Early Adopter badge for both, awarded to the first 5,000 people worldwide to pass. I hold more than 10 cloud and AI certifications in total, including the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
I have spent the last 10 years teaching online and have helped more than 200,000 students. Now I am here to help you get certified.
Updated for the latest exam guide
AWS revised the AIF-C01 exam guide, and this course is updated to match it. New lectures cover agentic AI, how AI agents use tools and memory, Model Context Protocol, token-based pricing, context engineering, and grounding techniques that keep model output accurate. The newly in-scope services are covered too: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, Kiro, Amazon Quick, and AWS Transform. Questions on services that left the exam scope have been replaced.
By the end of the course, you will be ready to sit the official AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam.
You will have a strong foundation in AI, machine learning, deep learning, and agentic AI, explained simply and clearly. More than 300 slides with diagrams and images support that.
You will understand the AWS AI services the exam tests, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker AI, and pre-trained services such as Comprehend, Rekognition, and Textract.
You will learn how AI is applied in real business scenarios and how to judge when AI is the right choice. And you will be ready for the exam's scenario-based questions, because you work through practical examples all the way through the course.
Course structure:
The course has 18 structured sections, aligned with the five exam domains: fundamentals of AI and ML, fundamentals of generative AI, applications of foundation models, guidelines for responsible AI, and security, compliance and governance of AI solutions.
You get more than 160 bite-sized video lessons, around 17 hours in total. Every video is scripted for clear, concise delivery, with no filler and no thinking pauses.
You also get more than 330 practice questions with detailed explanations, included as quizzes at the end of each section, and two full-length mock exams of 65 questions each that mirror the real exam format.
A downloadable PDF summarizes the key takeaways for last-minute revision. The course is updated regularly as AWS services and exam content change.
This course is designed for anyone looking to earn the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) certification and add it to their professional toolkit. No prior AI or cloud experience required.
Whether you want to understand how AI works in real business settings or you are preparing for your next role, this course will give you the knowledge and the confidence to pass the exam.
It's perfect for:
This course is for anyone looking to earn the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) certification. No prior AI or cloud experience is required. It suits business analysts, IT support professionals, marketing professionals, product managers, project managers, team leads, IT managers, sales professionals, and anyone curious about AI and AWS.
By the end, you will not only be prepared to pass the exam. You will understand the concepts behind it.
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