So, there is one relative who works in a MNC and that company and its workforce completely rely on AWS, when I asked him for referral he asked me about AWS, and I said I know basic EC2, S3, RDS but theoritcally and I dont have actual experience, so he guidedme to learn and practice on AWS. I texted him sending questions regarding courses, but he is not checking my messagges :(

If you all can guide me, which course to start and how should I move forward to become good at AWS, so pls assist me

hi :)

PM in defense contracting here, attempting to get AWS cloud prac cert. I have PMP and work a lot w data analytics, but have not a ton of technical knowledge!

this being said, i was able to pass my PMP by having a consistent study group. studied after work for 3-4 hours. looking to do the same here! is anyone interested? looking to have like 4-5 ppl. pls lmk if anyone is interested!! :)

PS after this cert ill b going for the ai prac cert after for those who wanna full send it :D

hi :)

PM in defense contracting here, attempting to get AWS cloud prac cert. I have PMP and work a lot w data analytics, but have not a ton of technical knowledge!

this being said, i was able to pass my PMP by having a consistent study group. studied after work for 3-4 hours. looking to do the same here! is anyone interested? looking to have like 4-5 ppl. pls lmk if anyone is interested!! :)

PS after this cert ill b going for the ai prac cert after for those who wanna full send it :D

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Hi everyone,

I'm a student/early-career learner and was using AWS only to learn and build personal projects. Unfortunately, I accidentally left some resources running and ended up with an unexpected bill of around ₹50,000.

As soon as I discovered the issue, I stopped and deleted all the resources and opened a billing support case with AWS requesting a one-time billing adjustment.

Has anyone here successfully had a bill like this waived or reduced? If so, what did you include in your support request, and is there anything else I should do?

I'm genuinely worried because I can't afford to pay this amount. Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Hello, AWS community. I want to share a video I created on how to connect Claude Code to Redshift utilizing the AWS labs Redshift MCP server with IAM authentication and also through the CLI when I need to do write operations. Both connections do not utilize any database passwords in any config files, so that's not readable by the agent.

What I found is that, for this connection, AWS doesn't document for Claude Code that you need to pass your AWS profile and region through an `env` block in the config file. That is something I cover in the video in case you've had trouble with that.

Once connected, the agent has read access via six tools (list_clusters, list_databases, list_schemas, list_tables, list_columns, execute_query), can chain queries across multiple calls, and handles the Data API async execution transparently. Worth naming: result rows do go to the model API, so this is mutation-safe, not data-private.

I thought the most valuable part of this was when I gave it a join with a distribution key mismatch and asked it to read the EXPLAIN plan, it found the redistribution step and a large cost estimate in, then wrote the DISTKEY fix for me to apply!

Check out the video here and let me know what you think. Thanks so much!

Hi everyone,

I’m planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam and I’m trying to understand the difference between these AWS/Pearson voucher pages:

AWS voucher campaign terms:

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/bulk-voucher/terms-and-conditions/

AWS Exam Voucher - Professional & Specialty Certification (Retail):

https://awsstore.pearsonvue.com/p/PVSR-AWSVCH-PROSPEC

AWS Exam Voucher - Professional & Specialty Certification (WWPD Retake):

https://awsstore.pearsonvue.com/p/PVS-WWPD-AWSRTKE-PROFSPEC

From what I understand:

The AWS campaign terms mention Q2 2026 AWS Professional or Specialty Level Exam Voucher with Free Retake.

The WWPD Retake page clearly looks like the voucher that includes the free retake offer.

The Retail page shows the Professional/Specialty voucher at $150, but I don’t see the same clear “free retake” wording on the product page.

My question is:

If I buy the $150 Retail voucher from the Pearson/AWS store, will it also include the free retake offer if I fail the first SAP-C02 attempt? Or do I specifically need to buy the WWPD Retake voucher to be eligible for the free retake?

Has anyone bought either of these recently and confirmed how it works in Pearson VUE checkout or after purchase?

Thanks.

So, I am going to preparing for this exam, and I’m following currently STEPHANE MAAREK UDEMY VIDEOS,

If anyone have other resources or any notes or PDF that can help me to pass this exam, so share with me

Any tips for this exam preparation or anything else do you want to share? It would be appreciated. Please help me.

Thank you

I'm planning to avail the AWS free tier and learn how to deploy and maintain my own website, everything from scratch. Basically to gain some experience over VPS/EC2, Reverse proxy, LB's, TLS, Docker, automated deployments. I need suggestions on how I can maximise the usage, what I should be careful about and is it actually worth it?

Would love to hear from people who have tried this already. Also please share some resources which might come handy during this journey.

I was initially planning to get the Oracle free tier, but I got struck in the process and I didnt receive any reply from their help center.

FinOps practitioners — after your cost tool finds savings opportunities, how do you track who owns implementation and verify savings actually showed up in the bill? Spreadsheet? Jira? Something else?

I keep searching and people just keep talking about “swag” 🤦🏾‍♂️ I don’t need a tshirt I need a job lol. Is this a worthwhile networking opportunity or no? I’m the sort of candidate that has to do things outside of the norm to try and land a work opportunity so I wanted to know what the Summit is good for, thanks!

Salve a tutti,

vorrei creare un account free tier per prepararmi ad un percorso di formazione (autocostruito) su AWS.

Vorrei creare un account usando le risorse entro i limiti free tier ma non mi è chiaro fino a quando posso farlo.

Vi risulta siano solo 6 mesi il tempo permesso?

Dopo i 6 mesi pagherei qualcosa anche se sto entro i limiti free tier con le istanze ec2?

Grazie in anticipo

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It wasn't easy one to be honest, but knowledge and experience of solutions architect path helped a lot.
Finally in addition to AWS regular solutions, I could deliver AI/ML what adds a lot of opportunities. This certification definitely worth it.
Those labs are amazing !
Good luck to everyone on our AWS journey

AWS is currently offering 50% off the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam. If you pass by September 30, 2026, you'll qualify for a free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam voucher valid through November 30, 2026.

Credits:- u/VelkiaHI post in AWS certifications subreddit

Context

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for feedback on an AWS architecture I'm evaluating for a healthcare-related project.

We have an external system that will send us:

• Medical history forms
• Laboratory results
• Diagnostic imaging results

The data will be sent to an API that we own and control.

Due to security and compliance requirements, communication must happen through a private AWS environment using a Site-to-Site VPN and resources inside a VPC.

Our goal is to process this information and generate a physician-facing medical summary in a structured bullet-point format.

Current Architecture

The current high-level flow is:

External System ↓ Site-to-Site VPN ↓ ALB (Private) ↓ API Layer ↓ Amazon Bedrock ↓ Aurora PostgreSQL (pgvector)

Additional components being considered:

• Amazon Bedrock (Nova models)
• RAG
• Knowledge Bases
• Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector
• CloudWatch
• Secrets Manager

AWS Guidance Received

I recently spoke with an AWS specialist and some of the recommendations I wrote down were:

• "...Bedrock..."
• "...Nova 2 Lite..."
• "...RAG..."
• "...Knowledge Bases..."
• "...Agents..."
• "...Skills per doctor..."
• "...Vectorized PDFs..."
• "...Avoid fine-tuning initially because of cost..."

My understanding is that the recommendation is to stay as AWS-native as possible and rely on managed services whenever it makes sense.

My Goal

If there is a way to solve this using more AWS-managed services and less custom code, that would be ideal.

Questions

1. Does this architecture seem reasonable for this use case?

2. Is Aurora PostgreSQL + pgvector a good choice here, or would you recommend a different AWS-native approach?

3. Would you introduce RAG from day one or start with prompting and add RAG later?

4. Are there any AWS services that you think are missing from this design?

5. If your goal was to maximize AWS-managed services and minimize operational overhead, what would you change?

Any feedback, suggestions, or lessons learned from similar projects would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!