The AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty certification is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role. It validates a candidate's ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain machine learning (ML) solutions for given business problems.

Abilities Validated by the Certification

• Select and justify the appropriate ML approach for a given business problem

• Identify appropriate AWS services to implement ML solutions

• Design and implement scalable, cost-optimized, reliable, and secure ML solutions

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

• 1-2 years of experience developing, architecting, or running ML/deep learning workloads on the AWS Cloud

• The ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms

• Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization

• Experience with ML and deep learning frameworks

• The ability to follow model-training best practices

• The ability to follow deployment and operational best practices