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Certifications and the badges that are not certifications

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The catalog's foundational exams are AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified AI Practitioner. The associate exam that best covers the surrounding design is AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Developer - Associate fits Lambda and Streams. CloudOps Engineer - Associate fits quotas and operations. Security - Specialty fits IAM and KMS.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty is the exam for complex networks, and its last day is 31 December 2026. Connect-specific recognition is a set of Skill Builder learning plans with Credly badges, passed at 80 percent: Communications Specialist, Fundamentals, AI Fundamentals, and Developer, plus an administrator track.

Source: AWS Certification - Validate AWS Cloud Skills - Get AWS Certified AWS docs. last checked 2026-10

Sources and go deeper

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