This Week In AWS Community: 2024 Year In Review

Top 3 Highlights for This Year

carlarjenkins
2 min readDec 27, 2024

As 2024 winds down, here over at This Week in AWS Community has the top 3 highlights from this year. It has been quite an amazing 2024 with new AWS certifications and the new AWS products and services. As a machine learning track Builder, I am very happy with the AI new products coming out.

Top 3 Highlights

· Got renewed for my fourth year

· Passed my AWS AI Practitioner certification during the beta phase

· AWS in Plain English published my 5 Tips for Amazon Nova Reel

Got renewed for my fourth year

I have gotten accepted for year 4 of being an AWS Community Builders. Not too many Builders can say that.

Passed my AWS AI Practitioner certification during the beta phase

This was one of 2024’s highlights because I am on the machine learning track. AI is right up my alley. In addition, I have felt like there is a camaraderie with other Builders to pass the AI Practitioner and Machine Learning Engineer Associate certifications during the beta phase.

Outside of the group, as an individual, it is great that I have kept my AWS AI/ML skills up enough to pass the AI Practitioner. I have to have the proficiency to be able to build things.

AWS in Plain English published my 5 Tips for Amazon Nova Reel

Amazon Nova is a new product family tree that comes out of 2024 ReInvent. Immediately I want to try Nova Reel image to video for these reasons: it is new and Reel is the hardest product/service to build something in. It is easy to go from text to image. It is much harder to go from image/text to video. As a seasoned AWS Community Builder, I need to test myself.

I have written down my unit tests and results in 5 tips for Amazon Nova Reel. Knowing that this is a new service and not too many articles on it, I’ve submitted my article to AWS in Plain English. The publication accepts my article 3 days later.

The acceptance has generated a lot of traffic to my Medium profile. It has also given me the motivation to submit more articles to AWS in Plain English and other AWS-related publications in 2025 and beyond.

As 2024, I am grateful for each and every single one of you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read up on my AWS Community Builder journey.

Follow me on Medium for even more in 2025.

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carlarjenkins
carlarjenkins

Written by carlarjenkins

2X Amazon bestseller. I write about IT, cloud and project management. www.carlarjenkins.com/work

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