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AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

RetiredAdvancedAI / Machine LearningPaid

Retired: the final exam sitting was 2026-03-31. AWS discontinued the Machine Learning Specialty. Validated ability to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models on AWS using SageMaker and related services. Successor path: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate.

What you'll prove

  • Engineer data pipelines for ML using AWS Glue, S3, and Kinesis
  • Select and apply appropriate ML algorithms for given problems
  • Train and tune ML models using SageMaker
  • Deploy and monitor ML models in production on AWS
  • Apply feature engineering and data preprocessing techniques
  • Evaluate model performance and address bias and variance issues
  • Implement ML pipelines with security and compliance controls

Frequently asked

How much does AWS Machine Learning Specialty cost?

The AWS ML Specialty exam costs $300 USD.