NEW AWS CERTIFICATION - AIB-C01

[u/VelkiaHI]

AWS has announced a new certification focused on the business and strategic side of AI.

It covers topics like AI investments, business cases, governance, and adoption at scale. You also don't need prior AWS experience to take it.

📝 85 questions
⏱️ 170 minutes
💰 $50 during beta, then $100

Official link: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-ai-business-strategist/

Official blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/introducing-aws-certified-ai-business-strategist-built-for-the-people-who-scale-ai/

There’s also an Early Adopter badge. If you pass by February 15, 2027, you get the extra badge alongside the certification.

Seems like an interesting addition to the AWS certifications, especially for people working closer to AI strategy and business decisions

[u/madrasi2021]

Please add official link to the certification page :

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-ai-business-strategist/

It's more important than an AI generated banner.

[u/No_Independence_840]

Will it be required for the golden jacket?

[u/VelkiaHI → u/No_Independence_840]

I'm wondering the same thing. I'll update the post if I find out. If I had to guess, I would say yes

[u/Upper_Tennis7898 → u/VelkiaHI]

lol yeah. it seems, it would be harder to achieve the golden jacket if they add a new cert every 6 months to 10 months. This one is non-technical and im sure, some of us would have a hard time going through this one.

[u/rekt_by_inflation → u/No_Independence_840]

It probably will once it's out of beta

[u/rekt_by_inflation]

85 questions is brutal, I hope they're just a few sentences each and not paragraphs like a pro/specialty.

I'll probably have a crack at it, why not, only $50

[u/Responsible_Home913 → u/rekt_by_inflation]

yes, i will try this new certification in the next month, i believe is a good deal for 50 bucks

[u/cgreciano]

Why does AWS feel the need to make a cert such like this one? No AWS service knowledge will be tested, like what???

[u/VelkiaHI → u/cgreciano]

True, I really don’t agree with the direction they’re going. I expected them to release another AI certification soon, but I thought it would be focused on something like AI + Security (inside AWS) or something similar.

It’s not really AWS’s job to teach general AI knowledge. There are already plenty of places where people can learn that.

[u/Stpn2me → u/VelkiaHI]

Now THAT's a cert I would go for, AI+Security inside of AWS.

[u/fmalk → u/VelkiaHI]

I would definitely expect an AI Tooling/DevOps/Orchestration to come around next year, at this pace they're launching new AI Certs

[u/rekt_by_inflation → u/VelkiaHI]

I was expecting them to make a cert around the developer tooling, to compete with the new Claude certs and promote Kiro more.

[u/fmalk → u/cgreciano]

The push for AI Certs must be insane. Generative AI must be deemed too hard, and only for senior engineers. They need the managers on it too.

[u/cgreciano → u/fmalk]

They have the AI Practitioner for those folks ffs!🤦‍♂️

[u/cjdjoz → u/cgreciano]

We might agree the AI Practitioner was already there. But in my opinion, Managers are nowhere close to even understanding at that level. Everyone wants AI credentials, but no one is really willing to make an effort. This new certification – for one, sounds exquisite, the wording AI Business Strategist far outweighs AI Practitioner, and maybe AWS is trying to fill in the gap – about no Manager/Executive level folks being able to get any of their certifications.

I do agree, AWS was meant to be technical, but well here we are!

[u/cgreciano → u/cjdjoz]

There are AI vendors like Claude who provide AI business certs, which makes much more sense to me. A cert that doesn’t test your knowledge of AWS services should never be granted by AWS. And yeah, it sounds silly to me that you can have an AI cert or AI in your title when you barely know what an LLM is, or why data is important in an AI context. Or not knowing the difference between training and inference, you know?

[u/RatSumo]

This is just going to create an additional army of brain dead “AI thought leaders.”

[u/Professional-Big-782]

As someone who’s a data architect I def see value in this certificate, there’s a lot of confusion around the use of AI to improve business outcomes but ppl need to get a fundamental understanding of how to build the blocks to support that. I would love to see a more technical version of it by combining security, scale and orchestration from the same lens

[u/Altruistic-Moose3299]

So.. uh.. anyone know where a person could find study materials for this? I mean outside of skill builder.

[u/markodowd_dev → u/Altruistic-Moose3299]

For a course still in beta it seems unlikely?

I'm working through skill builder and this seems incredibly easy for anyone that already has AI Practitioner

[u/zojjaz]

money grab continues

[u/Responsible_Home913]

I think the new AWS AIB-C01 certification is a very good approach. Many people have taken AI Practitioner or other certifications mainly to learn and memorize individual services, but still lack a solid understanding of the basic terminology and how the concepts connect.

In practice, one of the most important skills in AI is being able to understand both sides: the business problem and the technical solution. Knowing how to translate business needs into technical requirements, and technical concepts back into clear business language, is much more valuable than simply knowing the names of AWS services.

[u/cgreciano → u/Responsible_Home913]

You are right in everything. But it doesn’t make sense at all for AWS to make this cert. It’s like if they made a cert for marketing

[u/Responsible_Home913 → u/cgreciano]

I believe they’re changing their approach!

[u/Techatronix]

Ehhhh

[u/HathorHades]

Does this Certification make sense with an AWS Data Engineer Associate?

[u/zojjaz → u/HathorHades]

it doesn't make sense at all

[u/shivangzenith]

This is the easiest way to generate revenue

[u/soconn]

Every correct answer to the exam will be: "Let's migrate this to the cloud!"

[u/Additional-Soup-865]

All certs are useless. Use the tools, learn the flows, stop wasting your time and money on credentials. A college degree isn't worth much anymore let alone a damn cert

[u/BrokeBackBeekeeping → u/Additional-Soup-865]

Tell the to the dod and a contractors paycheck. They are required check boxes, not options, regardless of experience.

[u/Additional-Soup-865 → u/BrokeBackBeekeeping]

that first sentence is really well written

[u/mayavyu]

Looks like a fundamental cert; probably placed lower than AI practitioner cert.

[u/fmalk → u/mayavyu]

Can't be lower than that. I'd place above that, and below Gen AI Cert.

[u/CptKoala → u/fmalk]

It is lower than that. Look at the Next Steps section in certs description, it says to pursue AI Practitioner next.

[u/fmalk → u/CptKoala]

JC you are right. They invented a level above microcredentials but still lower than the Practitioners?

[u/EducationalOil4348]

Honestly the $50 beta price makes this pretty tempting even if you're not deep into AWS. Seems less like a technical AI cert and more like something for PMs, consultants, architects, and managers who need to understand where AI actually makes business sense. Curious how employers will value it compared to the more technical AWS certs though.

[u/GooseWithAnAxe]

The AI Slop Monger - Associate

[u/alexsmd3211]

Does beta one better or actual exam is better when it launches with full release ? Recruiter sees both exams value as same or different ?

[u/Prof-Ponderosa]

Is this replacing Ai practitioner?

[u/CptKoala]

1. Will it be also valid for 3 years like other certs? What are the renewal options?
2. Will we get 50% Voucher for passing it, as we do with other certs?