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According to forecast predictions from Forbes, the global machine learning (ML) market in 2017 was valued at $1.58B and is expected to reach $20.83B in 2024, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44.06% between 2017 and 2024. The same report indicates there are 44,864 jobs in the US today (98,371 worldwide) that list ML […]

AlphaBeta, a strategy and economics firm, investigated the current and future state of digital skills in the APAC workforce. The AWS-commissioned report, “Unlocking APAC’s Digital Potential: Changing Digital Skill Needs and Policy Approaches,” analyzes the digital skills applied by workers in their jobs today and projects the digital skills required by workforces over the next […]

Serverless enables you to build agile applications, so you can innovate and respond to change faster. With serverless computing, infrastructure-management tasks like capacity provisioning and patching are handled by AWS, so you can focus on only writing code that serves your customers. Services like AWS Lambda come with automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and a […]

Below is a summary of AWS Training and Certification news and updates for March 2021. Explore our training content, stories, and resources. Skills Development Changing landscape of skills development during the pandemic How has the pandemic changed the landscape of organizational learning and development? Why are inclusion and diversity so important in technology training? How […]

Why build a data lake? Did you know that the amount of digital data created over the next five years will be greater than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage? We’re not only producing more data than ever, we’re also producing real-time data that is streaming from a host […]

Do you ever wonder whether your comments and suggestions in course evaluations matter? Well, they do! After reviewing your comments and suggestions, we made a major update to the Advanced Architecting on AWS course by incorporating those ideas to improve the course and meet your needs, and it feels brand new. The updated Advanced Architecting […]

It’s hard to believe we’ve arrived at the last episode of our eight-week AWS Dev Hour: Building Modern Applications series! Join us this Thursday, March 18, at 4:00 p.m. PST on the AWS Twitch channel. If you’re just hearing about the show, you can learn more about each episode and watch all previous episodes on […]

April 30, 2024 Update: The AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is retired. Learn more in this blog. I’ve worked in the IT industry for a little over 20 years. I began my career as a junior database administrator learning relational database administration skills from a group of seasoned professionals. At that time, relational database […]

We’re down to two final episodes of AWS Dev Hour: Building Modern Applications on Twitch. Have you been joining? This free, live, and interactive series is designed for developers of all skill levels to gain hands-on experience building an end-to-end serverless application in the AWS Cloud. You can catch all previous episodes on demand and […]

Editor’s Note 5/3/2021: originally published 12/11/2020. Article has been updated to reflect availability of AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course on Coursera and edX. Whether you’re watching a show on a video streaming service, depositing a check using your mobile device, participating in a virtual meeting, or even ordering a latte from a coffee shop, many […]