Announcements

Last month, I passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam as my 6th AWS certification at the time (I also added Cloud Practitioner later.). I have held active AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certifications since 2018, renewing each twice and passing 6 Pro-level exams. I’ve also held 3 AWS Associate certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer) since 2017.

After each AWS exam, I write a blog post to share my experience. It’s been a tradition and a log of AWS exams over the years. So, here are my experiences with the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam in 2026.

Continue reading the Passing AWS Certified AI Practitioner in 2026 blog post.

I teach applying DevOps concepts on AWS, such as CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and CDK, which require some AWS knowledge beforehand. Over the years, many students have reached out to me, saying they also wanted to learn AWS fundamentals from me, but I couldn’t offer any foundational courses at the time. Finally, I am happy to announce the launch of my AWS Essentials course series on Udemy.

Continue reading the LIVE! AWS Essentials Courses for Beginners blog post.

Recently, I recertified my AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) certification by sitting for the exam for the third time. So, I extended my DevOps Pro certification to 9 years and the AWS Certified Developer – Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certifications to 10 years. It was a long marathon.

You need to recertify your AWS certifications in every three years. Although it was my third exam for this certification, it was still hard, and I learned new things during preparation. So, let me give you some insights about the exam coverage, how I prepared, and how online proctoring went with Pearson Vue.

Continue reading the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional for the Third Time! blog post.

Today, I am excited to share my new course: AWS CDK with Python Step by Step. In this post, I will summarize the contents of the course and why you should learn AWS CDK. I will also share a discount coupon special for the launch for those interested.

Continue reading the NEW! AWS CDK with Python Step by Step blog post.

I am excited to share our newest section in my Udemy bestseller AWS CodePipeline Step by Step course, Building Docker Images & ECS Rolling Deployments With AWS CodePipeline.

If you’ve not joined yet, for the next five days, you can join this course with a best-price coupon special to the launch of the new section using the link below:

https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-codepipeline-step-by-step/?couponCode=CLAI-LEARN-2608

Our newest section focuses on building your Docker images, publishing them to Docker Hub or Amazon ECR with AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild, and deploying them to Amazon ECS as rolling deployments** using the direct integration of CodePipeline with ECS.

Continue reading the New Section! Building Docker Images & ECS Rolling Deployments With AWS CodePipeline blog post.