US’s electronic commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon has announced that its “Machine Learning University” will now be available for free. A collection of more than 30 online courses will be made available for free through its subsidiary – Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The goal behind this step is to make Machine Learning available to all developers through AWS. Amazon expects to help developers, data scientists, data platform engineers, and business professionals in building more intelligent applications through machine learning.
“Regardless of where they are in their machine learning journey, one question I hear frequently from customers is: ‘how can we accelerate the growth of machine learning skills in our teams?’ ” – says Dr. Matt Wood, who made this big announcement in the name of Amazon.
“These courses, available as part of a new AWS Training and Certification Machine Learning offering, are now part of my answer.” – adds Dr. Wood, expressing enthusiasm that machine learning will become something very broadly available. Amazon expects that Machine Learning will go from something that was affordable only for big, well-funded organizations to become one of the main skills in all developers’ skillset.
The courses, which will be made available through Amazon’s “Machine Learning University”, include more than 45 hours of 30 self-service, self-paced digital courses and are provided for free. All the courses are organized such that each course starts with the fundamentals, and builds on those through real-world examples and labs, most of which are real problems encountered in Amazon.
The service offers specialized and tailored learning paths depending on your profession. Moreover, it offers an AWS certification that can help developers get recognized in the industry.
Amazon’s free machine learning courses are available here.