Category: Thought Leadership

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is focused on helping close the skills gap, and today we are excited to announce that we have trained over 5 million people across APAC with cloud skills since 2017. While we’re proud to reach this important milestone, our work doesn’t stop here. We are deeply committed to our training mission and we know reskilling and upskilling will make workers more efficient, organizations more productive, and economies more robust in the coming year.

As more organizations are investing in digital transformation to accelerate business growth and competitive positioning, they’re quickly finding they lack the necessary cloud-skilled talent to help reach their cloud goals. This blog post shares actionable steps leaders can take now to stand up cloud skills training programs to support their cloud business goals, retain valuable talent, and become an organization where skills development is the key ingredient to innovation.

Learn how AWS Certifications can help you validate your knowledge and enhance your credibility. Dipayan Das updated his artificial intelligence (AI) skills with AWS Training and Certification. He shares the resources he used and the impact of his training, including his ability to add value to his organization and clients. . .

The AWS Skills Center is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day with a special event featuring a main stage panel of successful AWS women sharing their personal stories about the career challenges they’ve overcome and the successes they’ve achieved . . .

Today marks International Women’s Day (IWD), a global holiday designed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It’s also a call to action to advance women’s equality. This post shares key topics discussed during AWS re:Invent 2021, when we brought together an esteemed group of professionals to share how they are #BreakingTheBias in a powerful conversation called Cultivating a Culture Where Technical Women Flourish . . .

Maureen Lonergan, Vice President of Training and Certification for Amazon Web Services (AWS), shares the following five trends that are driving training strategies and priorities in 2022: 1) retaining talent supersedes hiring new talent, 2) cloud skills training moves beyond the IT desk, 3) making space and time to prioritize learning, 4) skills training as the innovation enabler, and 5) personalized training becomes the standard . . .

Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of new courses, AWS Certification news, customer successes, and other updates from AWS Training and Certification for December 2021. Dive in and explore more training content, stories, and resources. Advance your cloud skills re:Invent 2021—Building cloud fluency today to support the builders of tomorrow Maureen Lonergan, VP of AWS […]

An IDG report stated that 91% of surveyed organizations have adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first business strategy. Statistics like this capture the weight of the movement toward cloud and digital transformation. While there’s no one way to do it, adopting cloud technologies is a key component for many organizations. The cloud can […]

Maureen Lonergan, vice president of AWS Training and Certification, was one of 22 Amazon Web Services (AWS) leaders who presented during the 2021 re:Invent Leadership Series. This post summarizes the highlights from the AWS Training and Certification session. Our programs equip you with the cloud skills to move your company—and career— forward. View the full […]

Over the next decade, the cloud computing industry will be a steady source of new jobs as the world digitally transforms. However, a report commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS) shows that to keep pace with technological change, the number of workers applying digital skills in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region will need to […]