AWS Training and Certification Blog

Category: Culture and Training

Stellantis: driving innovation by investing in employees’ digital skills

To support its AWS Cloud strategy, Stellantis is dedicated to ensuring it has the tech talent required to enable their transition to zero-emission connected vehicles. One way they’re doing this is by upskilling and reskilling employees from across the company to learn a new field or update their digital, tech, and cloud skills. Read how Stellantis is inspiring organization-wide cloud adoption and unlocking innovation with its holistic cloud skilling strategy.

A finance associate’s race to become a PETRONAS machine learning champion

How PETRONAS’ AWS Skills Guild propelled Aiyna Nazieha Muhamad to become the first female PETRONAS Exclusive AWS Virtual DeepRacer winner — with the fastest time ever recorded in Malaysia. Since 2019, PETRONAS, Malaysia’s national petroleum company, has been going through an extensive digital transformation, embedding data, analytics, and automation into almost every aspect of the […]

AWS Guild Tournament builds cloud skills and innovative customer solutions

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.

APU and AWS Academy accelerate students’ path to cloud careers

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.

New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in August 2023

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.

How AWS Training and Certification helped me move into a technical role at AWS

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.

First international AWS Skills Center opens in Cape Town, South Africa

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.

AWS Women in Cloud program helps Brazilian on path to solutions architect role

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.

Addressing gender inequity in the technology industry

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.