Category: AWS Training and Certification

Five years and more than 100,000 learners later, AWS Skills Center Seattle is still changing lives through free AI and cloud training. As we celebrate our fifth anniversary, discover five surprising facts about AWS Skills Center Seattle: it’s the city’s only free AWS training with live instructors, it hosts visitors from more than 20 countries, it has an Alexa dollhouse and a globe that tracks sea turtles, it brings classes into local communities, and its learners keep coming back.

AWS Entrena Latinas brings free AI and cloud skills training to women across Latin America, taught entirely in Spanish. The program is a collaboration between AWS, Amazon Music, Shakira’s Fundación Pies Descalzos, and Laboratoria, and aims to reach one million women with AI skills by 2028. Learners access on-demand courses covering AI fundamentals that lead to AWS Certifications. The first cohort in Colombia includes mothers and students connected to Shakira’s Fundación Pies Descalzos.

The Seattle Public Library and AWS are bringing free AI and cloud skills training directly into neighborhood branches to meet learners where they are. Since 2025, the collaboration has delivered over 50 classes to more than 550 community members, removing barriers like cost, transportation, and access that often keep people from pursuing tech education. Classes are led by AWS technical trainers who adapt to each audience, and the Library offers free certification exam vouchers to qualifying participants.

In India, the AWS re/Start program crossed a major milestone in 2026 with 10,000 learners reporting successful job outcomes in technology. Delivered through 150+ collaborating organizations across 70+ countries, AWS re/Start provides hands-on training and career readiness support at no cost to learners. This post highlights Prajwal, a graduate from rural Maharashtra who leveraged AWS re/Start to launch a career in technology.