AWS commits to improving cloud skills of 100,000 people in Europe during 2018
Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to training up 100,000 people across Europe in cloud during 2018 to help lower the barriers to digital transformation for public sector and commercial enterprises.[This is] because the technology has changed, and the curriculum that is required to be taught and the understanding of that is evolving so fast,” Carlson told attendees during the opening keynote of the AWS Public Sector Summit .These include the Re:Start programme it launched in January 2017 to help school children, young adults and ex-military personnel develop with skills in cloud technologies, which Carlson claimed 68% of participants so far have used to secure on-the-job training afterwards.Speaking to Computer Weekly at the AWS Public Sector Summit, Carlson said sourcing staff with cloud skills is a real challenge for government agencies because of how reliant they are on legacy systems.The initiative launched in the US in 2017, and is now opening up to organisations based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and is designed to provide them with access to a range of support to grow their businesses.