AWS Training and Certification Blog

Learn how Ivan Yalovets shifted his career from being a clinical researcher in Ukraine, to building a career in cloud computing, following the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, with the help of ITSkills4U.

Learn how earning a digital badge from AWS Education Programs can help job seekers stand out in a sea of applicants.

The AWS Guild Tournament is a 12-week learning program delivered by AWS Training and Certification. Village Roadshow embarked on this gamified training experience with the aim of enabling their people to quickly build cloud knowledge through targeted foundational training courses, empowering teams to build resilient, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

When Olumuyiwa (Muyiwa) Kolayemi moved to the United States from Nigeria, he was unable to find work that matched his engineering background. Determined to succeed, he worked at the Boston Public Market to make ends meet. That’s when he found AWS re/Start, a free-to-the-learner, multi-week, workforce development training program that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud. Three years after starting the program, Muyiwa reflects on his journey to launch a cloud career.

EPAM and ITSkills4U are empowering career growth of Ukrainians by providing training to 16,000 individuals living in a war zone and those displaced by the war and seeking refuge.

Learn how AWS Academy member institution Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) is helping students build in-demand cloud skills and validated expertise to land rewarding careers in cloud, and foster continued learning for its instructors.

We’re back with the August course launches and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification – to equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Discover 13 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 5 AWS Builder Labs, AWS Jam Journey: Containers, and a new AWS Networking knowledge badge readiness path. For learners in Cape Town, South Africa, we opened our first international AWS Skills Center. And AWS Partners in sales roles can learn how to sell to public sector customers.

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.