Bootcamps
Our in-person training Bootcamps are your chance to get exclusive knowledge directly from AWS experts. This year, we’re offering Technical Bootcamps, APN Partner Accreditation Bootcamps, and Certification Exam Readiness Workshops.
Hands-on Labs
Stop by our Hands-on Labs throughout the week and choose from more than 90 training lab topics. Learn at your own pace as you walk through step-by-step scenarios in a live practice environment. Labs take 60 minutes to complete depending on your level of experience. Walk-ups are welcome. Sign-up is not necessary.
Bootcamps
Bootcamps are an opportunity to dive deep into existing skills and learn new ways of working with AWS. This year, we’re offering Technical Bootcamps, APN Partner Accreditation Bootcamps, and Certification Exam Readiness Workshops. Bootcamps are offered on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and run either half a day (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM) or a full day (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM). You can choose to take one or more Bootcamps based on your schedule.
All students taking a Bootcamp must bring their own laptop (no tablets). Laptops must have a dual-core processor with 4GB of RAM. We also recommend having the current version of Chrome or Firefox installed.
Technical Bootcamps
Technical Bootcamps are for end users responsible for designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based solutions on AWS. These sessions give you the chance to learn from experienced AWS Instructors and Solutions Architects who bring their extensive technical skills and real-world experience to each class. Each full-day class includes a mix of instructor-led presentations and hands-on lab exercises.
Partner Bootcamps
Partner Bootcamps are offered exclusively to members of the AWS Partner Network (APN). These sessions help APN Partners gain a greater understanding of how AWS solutions address customer business requirements. APN Partner Accreditations, which will help your team meet APN training requirements, are awarded upon successful competition of a Partner Bootcamp.
Certification Exam Readiness Workshops
Certification Exam Readiness Workshops are open to all customers and partners preparing for an AWS Certification exam. These workshops will go over the structure of an exam and help you interpret the concepts being tested so you can better eliminate incorrect responses.
Bootcamps
Introductory
AWS Business Essentials
This is a one-day, introductory-level bootcamp that helps you as an IT business decision maker understand the benefits of cloud computing and how a cloud strategy can help you meet your business objectives. This course discusses the advantages of cloud computing for your business and the fundamentals of AWS, including financial benefits. This course also introduces you to successful cloud adoption frameworks to help you consider the AWS platform within your cloud computing strategy.
AWS Technical Essentials
This is a one-day, introductory-level bootcamp that introduces you to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides you with fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and get started working on AWS.
Bootcamps
Advanced
AWS Well-architected Framework
This half-day, advanced-level bootcamp describes the benefits of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which enables customers to assess and improve their cloud architectures and better understand the business impact of their design decisions. It addresses general design principles, best practices, and guidance in four pillars of the Well-Architected Framework.
Building A Serverless Data Lake
Building a Serverless Data Lake is a one-day, advanced-level bootcamp designed to teach you how to design, build, and operate a serverless data lake solution with AWS services. The bootcamp will include topics such as ingesting data from any data source at large scale, storing the data securely and durably, enabling the capability to use the right tool to process large volumes of data, and understanding the options available for analyzing the data in near-real time.
Building And Analyzing Alexa Skills
“Alexa, build analytics for my skill.” Wouldn’t it be great if creating new applications was as easy as simply speaking that command? Building and Analyzing Alexa Skills is a one-day, advanced-level bootcamp that guides you through creating an Alexa Skill (interactive voice application) running on serverless AWS services (Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda). You will learn how to capture usage metrics (via Amazon DynamoDB Streams) and how to store them in a data warehouse (Amazon Redshift) where you can see how users are interacting with your skill. You will be able to keep the working, practical skill you’ve built and use the analytics to track how your skill is being used.
Building Serverless Solutions On AWS
Building Serverless Solutions on AWS is a one-day, advanced-level bootcamp that demonstrates how to create applications using AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, and other serverless services. You will get hands-on experience using established patterns and best practices to design and build dynamic web applications, stream processors, and batch data processing systems without servers. This bootcamp will cover design and implementation considerations for building scalable and highly available systems and techniques for integrating these solutions with conventional server-based applications.
Bootcamps
Expert
Automating Cloud Scale Security
This is a one-day, expert-level bootcamp designed to teach solutions architects, operations professionals, DevOps engineers, and hands-on security teams how to implement security automation in their code, applications, and infrastructure lifecycle and how to integrate their systems with core AWS services like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This includes topics such as securing and validating your code and infrastructure deployments, understanding how to integrate with services like KMS for simple encryption of sensitive information, and securing your EC2 instances at run-time in an elastic workload.
Running Container-enabled Microservices On AWS
This is a one-day, expert-level bootcamp that provides an in-depth, hands-on introduction to managing and scaling container-enabled applications. This full-day bootcamp provides an overview of container and microservice architectures. You will learn how to containerize an example application and architect it according to microservices best practices. Hands-on labs that feature the AWS container-focused services show you how to schedule long-running applications and services, set up a software delivery pipeline for your microservices application, and implement elastic scaling of the application based on customer load.
Bootcamps
Certification Readiness
AWS Certification Exam Readiness Workshops are open to all customers and partners who are working to prepare for an AWS Certification exam. These workshops are designed to walk you through the structure of an exam and help interpret the concepts being tested so that you can better eliminate incorrect responses.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Workshop
Designed to complement the AWS course Architecting on AWS, this half-day workshop is intended for individuals who are preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. In this workshop, we review what to expect at the testing center and while taking the exam. We walk you through how the exam is structured, including question formats, content domains, and the breakdown of questions across those domains. We also teach you how to interpret the concepts being tested by a question so that you can better eliminate incorrect responses. During the workshop, you will have the chance to apply knowledge and test concepts through a series of practice exam questions.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Workshop
This one-day workshop is intended for individuals who are preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam. This workshop dives deep into the content domains and concepts behind them. Hands-on labs explore advanced use cases spanning multiple content domains. The workshop walks through the exam structure, including analysis and explanations of example questions. You will apply your knowledge and test your understanding of key architectural concepts through a series of practice exam questions.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Workshop
This one-day workshop is intended for individuals who are preparing for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam. The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. This workshop walks you through how the exam is structured, including question formats, content domains, and a breakdown of the domains. It also teaches you how to interpret the concepts being tested by a question so that you can better eliminate incorrect responses. During the workshop, you will apply knowledge and test DevOps concepts through a series of practice exam questions and a lab. This workshop is designed to complement the DevOps Engineering on AWS course.
AWS Certified Developer – Associate Workshop
Designed to complement the course Developing on AWS, this half-day workshop is intended for individuals who are preparing for the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam. This workshop reviews what to expect at the testing center and while taking the exam. It walks you through how the exam is structured, including question formats, content domains, and the breakdown of questions across those domains. You’ll also learn how to interpret the concepts being tested by individual questions so that you can better eliminate incorrect responses. During the workshop, you will apply knowledge and test concepts through a series of practice exam questions.
Training & Certification Schedule
Pre-Day
Monday, November 28
7:00am — 7:30pm
AWS Certification Exams
8:00am — 5:00pm
Bootcamps
Day 1
Tuesday, November 29
7:00am — 7:30pm
AWS Certification Exams
8:00am — 5:00pm
Hands-on Labs
8:00am — 5:00pm
Bootcamps
Day 2
Wednesday, November 30
7:00am — 10:00pm
AWS Certification Exams
8:00am — 5:00pm
Hands-on Labs
8:00am — 5:00pm
Bootcamps
7:00pm — 12:00am
Late Night Hands-on Labs
Day 3
Thursday, December 1
7:00am — 6:30pm
AWS Certification Exams
8:00am — 5:00pm
Hands-on Labs
Day 4
Friday, December 2
7:00am — 2:30pm
AWS Certification Exams
9:00am — 12:00pm
Hands-on Labs