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The successor to the retired ML Specialty, and it inherits an established premium. AWS is already moving on it: the last day for the current exam in English is September 28, 2026, and the MLA-C02 version, covering generative AI, agents and foundation models, goes live January 14, 2027 — the track is getting real investment.
ML engineers putting models into production on SageMaker — pipelines, deployment, monitoring, cost optimization. This is the operational core of applied ML on AWS.
It takes over the strongest single AI-cert franchise on the market and does so at the more accessible associate tier, which should broaden who takes it.
The risk is transitional. Until employers reliably read MLA-C01 as the ML Specialty's heir, its market signal will trail its syllabus. The quick C01→C02 revision also brings recertification friction unusually early in the cert's life.
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Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.
This certification pays 2% below the Top 100 median.
One of 11 AWS certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 9th among them.
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