Category: Thought Leadership

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 […]

Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of new courses, AWS Certification news, AWS Partner information, customer successes, and other updates from AWS Training and Certification for November 2021. Dive in and explore more training content, stories, and resources. New AWS Digital Training and AWS Classroom Training courses Experience interactive machine learning training with AWS and […]

This week, we celebrated National STEM Day, which is a day used to inspire children and young adults to pursue their passions in science, technology, engineering, and math. On this day each year, I like to pause and reflect on the work we’re doing for our customers, how we’re supporting the education of the next […]

Editor’s Note: The health and safety of our customers, AWS Partners, and employees remains our top priority. All badge holders at AWS re:Invent must be fully vaccinated, which means that when they attend, it must be three weeks after a second dose in a two-dose series or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine. A record […]

Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), a global nonprofit that addresses representation gaps in tech leadership, sees the rapid movement to the cloud as an opportunity to upskill professionals into cloud roles and diversify the tech talent pipeline. Founded and led by real-world tech and cloud leaders who make hiring and promotion decisions at the largest […]

Cloud is quickly becoming the norm for large companies, and the advantages go beyond the simple efficiencies of storing data outside traditional data centers. One company that recognizes this and is investing in the future of its organization with cloud is Absa Group Limited. Formerly Barclays Africa Group Limited, Absa is one of the largest […]

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Australia’s “better big bank,” services more than two million customers in more than 500 locations across Australia. In 2020, the bank unveiled its new cloud strategy. The strategy aligned its transformation investment with revenue growth with the intention to reduce complexity, build digital capability, and deliver new services for its banking […]

There are as many reasons to move to the cloud as there are organizations considering it. The decision to migrate depends on how much infrastructure and data needs to be moved, what needs to be re-architected in a cloud-native technology, and what skills require development. As a result, every migration is different, with unique parameters, […]