AWS, DeepLearning.AI Partner On Data Science Specialization

Amazon Web Services has partnered with education technology company DeepLearning.AI to offer a new specialization to help data professionals quickly master the essentials of machine learning and efficiently deploy data science projects at scale in the AWS cloud. The three-course Practical Data Science Specialization with Amazon SageMaker, AWS' fully managed machine learning (ML) service, is available through Coursera's education platform. The new, massive open online course (MOOC) addresses a critical factor to success with ML: growing the talent pool and helping more people become ML practitioners, according to Bratin Saha, vice president of machine learning services for AWS. "At Amazon, our goal is to train every developer we hire on machine learning," said Saha, who announced the new specialization during the opening keynote address for today's virtual AWS Machine Learning Summit. "In fact, machine learning courses are now mandatory for any engineer joining Amazon, and we want to make training accessible to even more developers."