AWS Educate is Amazon's global initiative to provide students comprehensive resources for building skills in the cloud. It is a no-cost curriculum providing access to content, training, pathways, AWS services.

Data Scientists analyze large amounts of data to identify opportunities, inform business strategies, and solve customer challenges. In this pathway, which contains ~35 hours of learning, you'll learn about the skills Data Scientists use to develop and automate processes, metrics, and long-term, scalable solutions. If you have strong quantitative and analytical skills and enjoy diving into data to uncover patterns and solutions, explore the Data Scientist Pathway to grow your expertise.

Course Objectives

In this pathway, you'll explore:

1.   Big data topics including data architecture as well as techniques and tools for analysis, streaming and visualization.
   

2.   Different scripting languages necessary for this role, including Java, Python, Javascript, Ruby, and using the command line interface.
   

3.   Data and data structures, as well as relational and non-relational data types.
   

4.   Various platform technologies, including Windows and Linux, and virtualization.
   

This survey course is aimed at individuals interested in cloud topics with little or no working knowledge of AWS. You do not need to be currently enrolled in college/ university to apply for this course, but we recommend you use a school email to sign up!

AWS Educate allows you to explore Cloud Career Pathways to learn the top cloud skills in leading cloud careers. From Machine Learning Scientist to Application Developer, each pathway aligns to a specific job role and includes 25+ hours of self-paced content with knowledge checks. Earn credentials for completed pathways to share with prospective employers