The AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty certification is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role. It validates a candidate's ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain machine learning (ML) solutions for given business problems.

1. Select and justify the appropriate ML approach for a given business problem
2. Identify appropriate AWS services to implement ML solutions
3. Design and implement scalable, cost-optimized, reliable, and secure ML solutions

1. 1-2 years of experience developing, architecting, or running ML/deep learning workloads on the AWS Cloud
2. The ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms
3. Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization
4. Experience with ML and deep learning frameworks
5. The ability to follow model-training best practices
6. The ability to follow deployment and operational best practices

1. Data Engineering
2. Exploratory Data Analysis
3. Modeling
4. Machine Learning Implementation and Operations