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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.

Grow your cloud skills with 19 new hands-on AWS Builder Labs

We’ve released 19 new AWS Builder Labs this month, specifically geared to help individuals in developer, cloud architect, cloud engineer, and cloud administrator roles reinforce their learning across various topics including Containers, Developing, Serverless, Networking, Security and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

New training: Building Serverless Applications on AWS, available on Coursera and edX

If you are a developer or software engineer looking to gain the foundational knowledge and skills to develop in the AWS Cloud and want a good understanding of the AWS services, check out the new content series from AWS Training and Certification, Building Serverless Applications on AWS. This three-course series is available on both Coursera and edX.

5 steps to learn AWS best practices and become Well-Architected

Learn five tips and associated resources to help you start learning and using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We’ll discuss the value propositions of the Well-Architected Framework, the phases of Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR), the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), the pillars, their design principles, and best practices – as well as our new training course that helps you build your practical knowledge. You can earn a digital badge after completing the course assessment too.

Upskill and reskill for security careers in the cloud

The cloud security landscape is constantly evolving, and organizations need to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and threats. As such, individuals with security knowledge are in high demand – from entry level to advanced professionals. This blog shares different roles in cybersecurity and training and certification resources to upskill and differentiate yourself in the cybersecurity job market.

ITSkills4U: From dentistry to IT

Anna Malanchuk spent seven years in her native Lviv, Ukraine training as a dentist. She had almost completed her training when the war broke out in Ukraine in February 2022, fleeing first to Norway, and then to Portugal, where her husband was able to find a job. Learn how Anna found ITSkills4U and reskilled with the free training program for Ukrainians to transition a career in IT.