This Week In AWS Community : Hobnobbing And Professionalism

Even though this past Monday was Labor Day, this has been a busy week over there. I have been doing both machine learning and AWS Solutions Architect Professional. These are two separate AWS certifications; however, when these opportunities present themselves I must take advantage.

Machine Learning

Yesterday I attended the HBCU Connect Amazon Alexa Shopping career event. It has an AI break room. This was right up my alley because getting my AWS machine learning specialty certification was one of my AWS Community Builder goals. Alexa is AI powered so that would be a job that I could do.

I did not ask any questions because I wanted to hear what the employee had to say about AI/ML. Even though none of the other students mentioned SageMaker (the employee did mention Python), I felt that I would have to know that. I would also be beefing up my knowledge of Lex, Polly and Transcribe.

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

I am in Learn to Cloud. This is a free cloud computing learning group that has started on Twitter. I have completed its AZ-700 Bicep learning path to receive a free exam voucher which I have used to pass my MS-900 for a Microsoft 365 Moderator chat job application (I did get the job. I did get some…