Announced by AWS, not yet in effect.
AWS is retiring the Advanced Networking – Specialty exam (ANS-C01), and its certification page lists December 31, 2026 as the last day to sit it. No replacement exam has been announced. Certifications earned before the retirement stay active for the usual three years, but AWS will not issue new ones afterwards.
SAP-C03 restructures all five domains and leads with cloud-native architecture design. It adds more than eleven new skills spanning generative and agentic AI design, resilience engineering, DevSecOps and post-quantum cryptography. Registration opens October 27, 2026, SAP-C02 is available until November 16, 2026, and SAP-C03 goes live the next day at $300 USD across all languages.
DVA-C03 introduces AI security as a new task area and threads AI-assisted development through every domain, while adding container management and Amazon Bedrock. Roughly forty existing skills are consolidated for clarity. Registration opens October 27, 2026, DVA-C02 is available until November 30, 2026, and DVA-C03 goes live December 1, 2026 at $150 USD with 65 questions in 130 minutes.
The outgoing exam has passed its last day.
AWS opened beta registration for MLA-C02, which widens the exam beyond classic ML engineering into generative AI: foundation models, agentic workflows and Amazon Bedrock now sit alongside SageMaker. The beta runs 170 minutes over 85 questions at $75 USD, English only. MLA-C01 is available in English until September 28, 2026, and MLA-C02 reaches general availability on January 14, 2027.