AWS Training and Certification Blog

Category: Customer Solutions

AWS Guild Tournament builds cloud skills and innovative customer solutions

The AWS Guild Tournament is a 12-week learning program delivered by AWS Training and Certification. Village Roadshow embarked on this gamified training experience with the aim of enabling their people to quickly build cloud knowledge through targeted foundational training courses, empowering teams to build resilient, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

APU and AWS Academy accelerate students’ path to cloud careers

Learn how AWS Academy member institution Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) is helping students build in-demand cloud skills and validated expertise to land rewarding careers in cloud, and foster continued learning for its instructors.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in August 2023

We’re back with the August course launches and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification – to equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Discover 13 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 5 AWS Builder Labs, AWS Jam Journey: Containers, and a new AWS Networking knowledge badge readiness path. For learners in Cape Town, South Africa, we opened our first international AWS Skills Center. And AWS Partners in sales roles can learn how to sell to public sector customers.

How AWS Training and Certification helped me move into a technical role at AWS

Over the past three years, I have embarked on a transformational career journey, going from a sales role, with a non-IT background, to a Solutions Architect. The resources available through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification were some of the most impactful leavers I pulled to support with this transition. In this blog, I will share details about this journey, specific tools and activities I used, and advice for any IT leaders on how they can empower their team members to do the same.

First international AWS Skills Center opens in Cape Town, South Africa

Today, we cut the ribbon on our first international AWS Skills Center in Cape Town, South Africa, furthering our mission to remove the barriers of access to cloud skills training. The center is designed to deliver free training that helps nontechnical learners build new cloud skills and unlock career options for in-demand tech jobs.

Introducing AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare to help healthcare organizations upskill staff in cloud

Introducing a new cloud skills training offering specifically for the healthcare industry, AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare. AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare is designed specifically for healthcare professionals and provides an interactive, engaging learning experience covering a comprehensive set of 25 solutions to build real-world AWS Cloud skills for the healthcare industry.

TCS accelerates cloud growth with AWS-trained entry-level talent

TCS requires its entry-level associates to be AWS Certified before it deploys them to projects. Because of this entry criterion, it can take 2–3 months to deploy entry-level associates to projects after onboarding. TCS drastically reduced new-hire deployment time by working with AWS Education Programs to tap into a pool of entry-level, cloud-skilled talent.

3 ways Salesforce transforms skills to cloud-native with AWS Training

With over 150,000 enterprise customers worldwide, Salesforce is one of the largest and most recognized customer relationship management providers. But what truly sets Salesforce apart is how the company continually invests in its workforce to keep pace with the latest technologies. Learn how Salesforce is investing in its staff to innovate with AWS.

New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in July 2023

In July, we released 52 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare, AWS Cloud Quest: Networking, 19 AWS Builder Labs, and new exam prep for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. For c-suite executives, explore courses to help you build knowledge of the capabilities of cloud. We also have two new trainings exclusive to AWS Partners in sales roles.