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At Amazon, we are “customer obsessed,” which means we work to understand the challenges our customers face and figure out how to solve them. For AWS, this often means building technical solutions for our customers, such as helping Siemens handle cyber threats, or supporting Netflix with nearly all of its computing and storage needs. But […]

I always knew that I wanted to work with computers. From an early age, I was building computers and troubleshooting systems with my dad. When it came time to find a career, the choice was obvious for me: information technology (IT). I started in the desktop support field ten years ago before moving on to […]

We are now three episodes into the seven-week AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning series. Are you caught up? If not, catch the recorded streams! And make sure you join us for episode 4 this Thursday, August 13 at 4 p.m. PST on Twitch. What happened in episode 3 Mona Mona, AWS Principle Solution Architect, joined […]

Want to build your cloud career? Choose your AWS Certification path aligned with popular cloud roles and get started. Remember how simple grades were in our early school days? 90 to 100 percent correct equaled an A, 80 to 89 percent equaled a B, etc. If the exam said 92 at the top, you knew […]

Cloud computing has introduced a significant shift in how technology is obtained, used, and managed. It’s given organizations the ability to trade capital expense for variable expense, operate at massive economies of scale, make agile capacity decisions, increase organizational speed and agility, eliminate spend on data centers, and go global in minutes. No matter what […]

We are now two episodes into the seven-week AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning series. Are you caught up? If not, catch the recorded streams! And make sure you join us for Episode 3 this Thursday, August 6 at 4 p.m. PST on Twitch. Episode 2 Recap Kashif Imran, AWS Principle Solution Architect, joined hosts Jon […]

My favorite aspects about preparing for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification exam are the learning process and coming away with new knowledge. For anyone who has taken a certification exam, that feeling quickly turns to a brief moment of apprehension when the mountain of recommended documentation is staring at you. There must be another […]

If you missed the first episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning this past Thursday, it’s not too late to catch the recorded stream. And be sure to join us for the second episode on Thursday, July 30, at 4 p.m. PST on Twitch. Episode 1 Recap: Spoiler Alert! Here’s what you missed: expert hosts […]

AWS Training and Certification’s Steve Hall, Head of Global Partner Marketing, interviewed Jeff Hammond, AWS Business Group Global Capability Development Lead at Accenture Introduction to Accenture Accenture is an international professional services company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company provides service to customers in more than 120 countries, including 95 of the Fortune 100 and […]

In a 451 Research survey, 80 percent of respondents acknowledged having a poor understanding of financial management as it relates to cloud costs. These same respondents acknowledged this lack of understanding resulted in a negative impact on their business, including deceleration of cloud adoption, slower innovation, decreased quality of service, underutilized resources, and increased costs. […]