Accelerating training – The AWS Skills Guild

Your organization is investing in cloud, modernizing applications and workloads, transforming the way you work and do business. You have run some initial Immersion Days, and now it’s time to invest in your people and give energy and momentum to your ongoing cloud journey, creating an innovative culture of continuous learning that will help propel your organization into the future.

The AWS Skills Guild is a tailored educational experience that helps build the skills your organization needs to get the best from the AWS Cloud and support key initiatives and projects. Purposefully structured, but also fun and engaging, the program generates excitement about AWS, increasing affinity with the technology and creating an enthusiastic learning culture. Building a groundswell of cloud knowledge and skills across your organization, will also drive AWS Certifications for staff to lead successful future cloud projects, which also helps both attract and retain top talent.

A mix of the common workshops and training opportunities below will combine to form a program that creates momentum for your cloud adoption processes and cultural transformation:

1. Formal training courses — Let your teams develop the skills to design, deploy and operate infrastructure and applications. This will be through instructor-led classes, labs, self-explore learning materials and certification preparation workshops.

2. Digital Innovators workshop — Working with your business leaders, AWS helps to enable them in the process of working backwards from customer requirements, to innovate on their behalf.

3. Game Days and Hackathons — Having fun is essential to any learning journey. Game Days and Hackathons are engaging ways to put what your teams have learned to the test in a fun and idea-filled environment.

4. Lunch and Learns — Part of the continuous development phase, Lunch and Learns enable experienced staff to engage with new technologies, practices, and services to keep their skills on the cutting edge.

5. Cloud for Business workshops — Learn from AWS senior leaders and cloud experts who will address non-technical groups on topics such as collaboration, the agile workplace, innovation, and AWS Cloud fundamentals.

6. Digital learning — AWS Digital Training is designed to let you learn at your own pace, providing on-demand access to fundamental digital training courses with previews of paid technical specialty content.

7. Focus on certification — Set goals to get a minimum number of technical staff certified on AWS. AWS provides leadership and support to drive the focus on AWS Certifications.

Organizations can also continue to leverage further Immersion Days to strengthen capabilities with particular technologies and AWS services.

Continuous upskilling

Organizations need individuals with cloud skills to help transform their business. As outlined previously in this guide, AWS Training and Certification helps you build and validate your cloud skills so you can get more out of the cloud. After your organization has the foundational elements of training and certifications, your cloud experts should access AWS additional learning opportunities by attending AWS events (such as re:Invent and Summits) and by tracking theAWS daily blog. Staying engaged will enable your cloud teams to stay up to speed on services and features as they roll out to customers.