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By day, James Barney is a Principal Cloud Enablement Engineer for a financial services company. On the nights and weekends, he is an AWS IQ expert, helping customers set up and scale out solutions on AWS. In both roles, James works to understand the business case behind a cloud initiative. He uses his AWS skills […]

AWS Training and Certification’s Steve Hall interviewed Rebecca Gentile, Global Alliance Enablement Director at Slalom.                 Introduction to Slalom Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. With offices in 35 cities around the world, they enable organizations to truly operate a global […]

Gartner estimates insufficient cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) skills could result in migration delays by two years or more. To effectively support the digital transformation initiatives of your organization and its customers, it is more important than ever to stay up-to-date on emerging cloud technologies and best practices. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification offers free […]

Today’s applications need to scale to potentially millions of users, have global availability, manage petabytes if not exabytes of data, and respond in milliseconds. We call these modern applications, and they cover use cases from web and mobile backends, IoT applications, AI/ML workloads, batch processing, PaaS solutions, microservice backends, and more. Modern applications are built […]

Contributed by: Andrew Schwarz, AWS Academy accredited educator at Louisiana State University We are in an exciting era of higher education. Digital native students are arriving in our classrooms armed with deep and broad experience with technology. And now, the COVID crisis is pushing us all to teach online, giving us a chance to think […]

AWS Training and Certification has launched a series of free, live virtual training events, each led by an accredited AWS instructor with real-time Q&A chat support. In this blog post, we provide information on when the classes are hosted, why you should participate, and what free course types we are offering. You can register for […]

Contributed by: Michael Foster, General Manager of Enterprise Technology at Sportsbet Sportsbet is the largest online bookmaker in Australia, but we can’t afford to rest on our laurels. Our competitors are constantly innovating, and to stay on top in an intensely competitive market we need a continuing commitment to progressive thinking, a willingness to take […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has helped thousands of organizations migrate their applications and workloads to the AWS Cloud. Based on these experiences, AWS has developed a proven process, framework, tools, and playbooks to help customers migrate applications and workloads to the cloud. We have consolidated these resources for our customers into an AWS Migration Ramp-Up […]

According to Forbes, “advanced cloud and security skills are in higher demand than ever before; however, there is a significant lack of qualified, skilled professionals.” This skills gap is expected to grow. Nearly 80 percent of IT decision makers see hiring as a challenge according to the 2019 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary report. […]

Telecommuting, work-shifting, flexible workspace, teleworking, mobile work, working from home– these are ever-evolving modalities that have existed in some form or another since the advent of the personal computer. Many tasks that at one time required an in-office presence are rapidly being moved to virtual contexts. Cloud adoption has always natively been office-less, but one […]