Two weeks ago, if someone had asked me about most AWS AI services, I probably would have smiled confidently… and changed the topic. Apart from a basic understanding of AWS and a few familiar services like Amazon S3, AWS IAM, and Amazon Cognito, I was definitely not what you would call an AWS certification machine. In fact, this was my very first AWS certification exam . Fast forward 14 days later: I’m happy to share that I passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam. And no — this was not one of those heroic “I studied 9 hours a day with three monitors and motivational background music” stories. This was a much more realistic developer story: working full-time, studying only around 1–2 hours on average, skipping some days entirely, and repeatedly asking myself why AWS has 47 services with names that sound equally important. But somehow… it worked.…