AWS Training and Certification Blog

Over the past three years, I have embarked on a transformational career journey, going from a sales role, with a non-IT background, to a Solutions Architect. The resources available through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification were some of the most impactful leavers I pulled to support with this transition. In this blog, I will share details about this journey, specific tools and activities I used, and advice for any IT leaders on how they can empower their team members to do the same.

Today, we cut the ribbon on our first international AWS Skills Center in Cape Town, South Africa, furthering our mission to remove the barriers of access to cloud skills training. The center is designed to deliver free training that helps nontechnical learners build new cloud skills and unlock career options for in-demand tech jobs.

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.

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.

Introducing a new cloud skills training offering specifically for the healthcare industry, AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare. AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare is designed specifically for healthcare professionals and provides an interactive, engaging learning experience covering a comprehensive set of 25 solutions to build real-world AWS Cloud skills for the healthcare industry.

TCS requires its entry-level associates to be AWS Certified before it deploys them to projects. Because of this entry criterion, it can take 2–3 months to deploy entry-level associates to projects after onboarding. TCS drastically reduced new-hire deployment time by working with AWS Education Programs to tap into a pool of entry-level, cloud-skilled talent.

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.

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.

We’ve released 19 new AWS Builder Labs this month, specifically geared to help individuals in developer, cloud architect, cloud engineer, and cloud administrator roles reinforce their learning across various topics including Containers, Developing, Serverless, Networking, Security and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

If you are a developer or software engineer looking to gain the foundational knowledge and skills to develop in the AWS Cloud and want a good understanding of the AWS services, check out the new content series from AWS Training and Certification, Building Serverless Applications on AWS. This three-course series is available on both Coursera and edX.