AWS offers 8 game-based training experiences to power up your cloud skills

AWS Cloud Quest is the flagship training in our game-based learning portfolio. You start by creating your avatar and step into the role of a cloud professional, such as a solutions architect or machine learning specialist, and converse with virtual customers. It’s a great way to grow your ability to translate complex business problems into technical solutions.

Then you apply your knowledge with hands-on labs, solving your customer’s problem by building solutions in a structured AWS Management Console environment. With guidance, you can tackle use-cases specific to a technical domain or AWS service, benefiting from assessments along the way. When you complete all the assignments in the quest, you’ll earn an official AWS digital badge credential, which you can showcase to recruiters, potential employers, and peers through Credly.com.

AWS Cloud Quest supports new-to-cloud learners with foundational cloud practitioner training and roles aligned with professional cloud jobs roles, including data analytics specialist, networking specialist, machine learning specialist, and security specialist. Our new generative AI role helps people gain practical experience developing generative AI solutions. Completing the respective AWS Cloud Quest role can help learners build knowledge and hands-on skills to pursue the aligned AWS Certification.

New training is continuously being added within AWS Cloud Quest. AWS has launched new solution assignments to build practical generative artificial intelligence skills for machine learning, serverless developer, solutions architect, security roles, and more.

These new tasks help you learn to generate images from text descriptions, create chatbots powered by large language models, and use generative AI to build cloud infrastructure. The hands-on assignments will teach you how to leverage services like Amazon CodeWhisperer, Amazon Lex V2, and Amazon SageMaker for applied generative AI and automation.

AWS SimuLearn, powered by Amazon Bedrock, provides an immersive learning experience that pairs generative AI-powered simulations with hands-on training to help people translate business problems into technical solutions. Learn more here.

AWS Industry Quest, like AWS Cloud Quest, is an interactive learning experience, but teaches you how to build cloud solutions for your industry. Choose an industryfinancial services, health care, or manufacturing and automotive—then customize your avatar, work through common industry-specific use cases, and solve the challenges in order to transform a virtual organization into an industry leader. When you complete all the industry-specific solutions, you’ll earn an AWS digital badge that you can share with your network.

AWS Card Clash is a 3D virtual card game that helps you explore AWS Cloud architecture and solution design. Designed for people with varying skills, this fun game will help you develop and expand your working knowledge of AWS cloud services. You can challenge other players in head-to-head multiplayer matches or practice against AI opponents as you learn to identify common architectures and strategically deploy cards to build a scalable and efficient AWS solution architecture. You can also use special cards to defend your strategy or capture an opponent's deployment to win. Learn more about AWS Card Clash here.

Gear up to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and/or AWS Certified AI Practitioner with AWS Escape Room, an immersive virtual escape room. You'll answer exam-style questions, build solutions in hands-on labs, and solve interactive puzzles in order to escape virtual rooms within the game environment. You'll get feedback along the way to help build your knowledge and prepare you to take certification exams. You can play solo at your own pace, or compete against a friend in event mode for bragging rights on the leaderboard.

Are your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner credentials expiring in six months or less? Take the stress out of recertification, no exam required. You can complete AWS Cloud Quest: Recertify Cloud Practitioner, a game-based training that guides you through hands-on learning modules, and get recertified. The game consists of 12 solution-building assignments in the cloud practitioner role, plus a bonus recertification challenge.

AWS Skill Builder Trivia is an online game that allows you to create and deliver trivia tournaments about cloud concepts and AWS technologies, including generative AI and machine learning services, during meetings, workshops, and events. Players can compete in real-time, reinforce key AWS concepts, and build camaraderie – all while assessing their technical proficiency in a fun and interactive format. As a host, you can choose from ready-made questions at no cost. You can also use the AI-powered question generator to come up with questions or add your own questions in bulk if you upgrade to an AWS Skill Builder subscription. During trivia sessions, players can join through any web browser on desktop or mobile devices, with points awarded based on speed and accuracy of answers.

In addition to the game-based learning experiences from AWS Skill Builder, AWS offers AWS Guild Incubator, a 12-week gamified training engagement tailored to AWS customers’ learning needs to help their employees build cloud skills. Teams are composed of individuals with varying skill sets and roles to promote cross-functional collaboration. They gain points by participating in training activities, taking exams, and submitting “innovation ideas” to solve real business challenges. At the end of the competition, teams present their innovation ideas to leadership, who review all concepts and pick a winner to bring their idea to life. Led by the AWS Enterprise Skills Transformation team, AWS Guild Incubator inspires teams to use their newly acquired cloud skills to drive innovations for their companies.