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Learn how Ukrainian refugee, Anastasiia, utilized ITSkills4U to transition from being a small business owner (a beauty salon) to build the skills and AWS Certifications to start a new career in cloud DevOps.

Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) is a non-profit organization that aims at addressing this gap by providing upskilling avenues and increasing the availability of women tech leaders as mentors. AWIT recently launched a collection of courses on Real-World Engineering Management, sponsored by AWS and available exclusively on Coursera.

In Nigeria, 30–45% of all jobs will require digital skills by 2030, and 28 million workers will need technical training across sectors. Learn how Stanbic IBTC, a leading commercial bank with operations in Africa, is helping to create the next generation of cloud experts in Nigeria through its annual skilling initiative—the Digital Skills Empowerment Program (DiSEP).

Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches a free AWS Learning Plan and Digital Badge for Media and Entertainment (M&E) for Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) and Broadcast Foundations. The learning plan educates executives, industry professionals, and technologists about the AWS services and best practices to apply to Broadcast and Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) workflows in the cloud.

As your organization starts to modernize its mainframe workloads, it’s important that the workforce has skills that are diverse and complementary, such as mainframe, mainframe modernization, and cloud skills. In order to help our customers and partners build skills to support their mainframe modernization with AWS journeys, we have launched 10 self-paced courses.

When the war broke out in the Ukraine in February 2022, Julia was offered an opportunity to relocate to Poland with her current employer. Once there, she found a job listing for a customer service coordinator with AWS’ ITSkills4U program. She applied and got the job. Learn how ITSkills4U has transformed Julia’s life, in both the work she is doing and how she chose to take advantage of the free cloud skills trainings the program offers Ukrainians.

In March 2023, AWS Training and Certification released 27 digital products including 14 AWS Builder Labs, an AWS Jam Journey (analytics), two courses for AWS Partners, three courses for c-suite leaders, and a classroom course on AWS security best practices. Exam labs have been temporarily removed from the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. To help organizations scale skill-building with their teams, AWS Skill Builder Team subscription is now available in 50 countries.

Deloitte recognizes that one of its greatest strengths is the unique perspectives and voices of its people—with diversity, equity, and inclusion part of its core values. Deloitte has also long recognized the gender gap in the technology space and has been working to close that gap through training programs. Learn how Deloitte’s CloudUp for Women (CU4W) program has helped women from diverse professional backgrounds gain in-demand cloud skills and address the gender gap in tech.

Accenture reports that a digital skills shortage is the top barrier to achieving cloud value–ranked as the number one barrier. Forward-thinking enterprises, like UnionBank of the Philippines, are maximizing their cloud investments by upskilling their workforces, becoming prime destinations for top cloud talent. Learn more from Michelle Rubio, the bank’s Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, about how UnionBank built a Cloud Center of Excellence based on the AWS Skills Guild framework.

Throughout Women’s History Month, we’ve been celebrating stories of women in the cloud. Diana Todea is a Site Reliability Engineer for Cloud Observability at Elastic. We’ll share how Diana used AWS Certifications to move her career forward quickly to become competitive in the cloud and grow in her overall understanding of technology and her role within it.