AWS Training and Certification Blog
Category: Thought Leadership
New AWS skills initiatives help APAC get AI-ready
From Japan to Indonesia, and further south to New Zealand, organizations and individuals from diverse communities are actively embracing and integrating the latest and most advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to improve their lives and work. AWS Training and Certification is helping them build the skills they need to innovate today and tomorrow.
How VMware partnered with AWS to nurture a culture of sustainability
Learn how we helped VMware build a culture of sustainable software development practices, in particular working jointly to help the VMware Tanzu CloudHealth research and development team. Through training initiatives, foundational cultural adaptations, and AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance on their sustainable development and production workloads, we’ve helped Tanzu CloudHealth incorporate sustainable practices in their software development lifecycle. Their journey presents an example of how AWS, with partners like VMware, can help customers incorporate a culture of sustainability into engineering practices and product development.
Hostersi: training its sales team for cloud success
Hostersi, one of Poland’s leading IT solutions companies, has been an AWS Partner for more than a decade. More than 60% of its diverse slate of customers — including everything from banks to advertising agencies to the Polish public sector — are based on AWS. In 2018 Hostersi discovered an important principle: If you want […]
Capgemini and AWS: Driving social sustainability through digital inclusion
Capgemini is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address the digital divide through education and employability programs, emphasizing the importance of digital inclusion as part of its sustainabilitypledge. In this blog, Anurag Kumar Pratap, Capgemini’s Vice President & CSR Leader in India, discusses Capgemini’s collaboration with AWS re/Start program to train 1,800 learners in India for cloud-related careers by 2024.
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.
AWS Women in Cloud program helps Brazilian on path to solutions architect role
Inaiah Anchite joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Solutions Architect in September 2022, a few months after participating in AWS Women in Cloud (WiC), a workforce development initiative designed to inspire, motivate, and connect female learners to AWS training and cloud-related job opportunities. She is sharing her story in the hopes it inspires even one woman to follow a similar path to a fulfilling career in cloud.
Addressing gender inequity in the technology industry
Introducing Femme Forward, an EU initiative that aims to ignite a new wave of female tech professionals and entrepreneurs. With mentoring opportunities available in seven European languages, this program strives to make tech accessible, to positively impact over 500 women, and ultimately reshape the gender balance in tech.
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.
Training for c-suite to build knowledge of cloud, generative AI capabilities
AWS Training and Certification and AWS Enterprise Strategists have developed a collection of digital training to provide a high-level picture of the benefits of cloud computing to c-suite leaders and executives in business or technology roles. These short, snackable videos feature AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Chris Hennessy, and Clarke Rodgers guiding leaders through the must-know information to build their business with cloud.