AWS · MLA-C02
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
ML engineers, data scientists and MLOps engineers on AWS. The de facto successor to the retired ML Specialty.
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Retired · 2026-06-30associateCloud$165
Retired. This exam is no longer offered. The replacement is Microsoft Certified – Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate.
Retired June 30, 2026 and replaced by AI-103. Still appears in many job postings, and AI-103 is the equivalent.
Who it's for: Nobody new. Take AI-103.
ML engineers, data scientists and MLOps engineers on AWS. The de facto successor to the retired ML Specialty.
Developers and engineering leads rolling out AI coding assistants.
Developers building AI solutions on Azure. The most job-relevant Microsoft AI cert.