Organizations are turning to cloud technologies
to help them transform their business
to reduce costs, increase security
and become more agile and innovate faster
with over a million active global
customers, AWS is helping
organizations of all sizes move
to and thrive in the cloud.
But while technology makes innovation
possible, it's people
who make it happen.
Hi, I'm Chad Ritchie with AWS
Training and Certification.
The rush to cloud has created an urgent
need for people with cloud expertise.
However, the demand for this
expertise exceeds the current
available talent.
To fully realize the benefits
of the cloud, organizations need
to focus on closing their skills gap
for the long term success.
AWS can help you upskill your
workforce and maximize your cloud
investment.
AWS Skill Builder is our online
learning center that is changing the
way teams learn and retain skills
to build and innovate in the cloud.
It can help you drive critical training
across your workforce, enable skill
development through hands-on practice
in a risk free environment
and create a culture of continuous
learning. Skill Builder
was built by the experts at AWS
to meet the needs of all your learners,
whether they're new to the cloud, moving
into a new technical domain
or diving deep for specialized
skills.
We know that every person has a preferred
way to learn.
With Skill Builder, we've developed
a diverse set of learning experiences
that include digital courses, guided
labs, interactive solutions
based training and much more,
this provides you with the flexibility to
deliver the type of training to ensure
that your teams can learn the way
that suits them best.
Let's take a look at what Skill Builder can do for your
business and for your teams.
With Skill Builder, you can assign specific
training from a catalog containing over 600
digital courses.
You'll find a wide breadth and
depth of training resources from
over 30 technical domains
such as Machine Learning, Architecting,
and many more.
And at the right skill level, fundamental
intermediate or advanced. You can
also help learners build role specific
expertise with learning plans,
curated training content for a particular
role or solution - also
organized by skill level. Choose from
over 50 pre-built plans designed
to level up your team's cloud skills
with a combination of digital courses,
interactive experiential training,
and certification preparation.
Cloud technology is always evolving
and anyone in a cloud role needs to have
hands on training and real world experience
to be effective.
Builder labs provides learners with AWS
cloud environments so they can build
practical skills and immediately
apply them in their daily work.
Learners can choose from over 125
self-paced labs. That span services
and topics such as Amazon S3,
Amazon EC2,
Amazon Dynamo DB,
AWS identity and access management,
AWS LAMBDA, and many more.
Once a lab is selected,
learners are presented with an overview of the
scenario
and can check to see if they have the necessary
prerequisite knowledge to complete
this lab.
They will then follow steps to instantly
deploy an AWS management
console structured lab environment
in a browser.
This will eliminate the time, security
concerns, and additional costs associated
with the configuration and provisioning
of your own sandbox environments.
Guided task-by-task employees
will be learning and applying at the same
time
which accelerates skill development and
improves knowledge retention.
AWS Cloud Quest is an innovative
learning solution. A role playing game
that teaches learners how to respond to real world
scenarios and build solutions using
cloud concepts and exercises.
Each learner can select their own path
by choosing from six different cloud roles,
Cloud practitioner, Serverless
Developer, Solutions Architect,
Data Analytics, Security
and Machine Learning
or leaders can create a custom path
based on a role and difficulty
for their team.
As learners cruise around their virtual city,
they will engage with customers that have real world
problems.
They'll then learn to address those problems
by building cloud solutions within
an AWS management console environment.
As learners successfully complete assignments
in their chosen role, the city will
build and grow as evidence of their
progress
and this keeps everyone motivated to continue
learning and complete their Quest.
Our customers today are leveraging Cloud Quest
to onboard new employees and upskill
existing employees with these engaging
immersive simulations.
in response to our customers requests
we've expanded our game base offering
with AWS Industry
Quest, which teaches you how to build
cloud solutions for select industries.
Our first industry is Financial
Services with more to come.
A virtual financial firm needs
AWS cloud expertise to
transform it into an industry leader.
Learners and teams will build real
solutions with over 29
common use cases to choose from.
And the knowledge that is gained in these scenarios
will apply to the real world.
With Industry Quest Financial Services
learners will understand the impact
that cloud solutions will have on
business KPIs.
And after all assignments are completed
in a Quest
learners will earn verifiable
AWS digital badges
that they can proudly share with their
network.
Develop problem solving skills as
a team with open ended cloud
challenges. With Skill Builder,
you can help your teams tackle cloud challenges
with two different experiential offerings.
AWS Jam events and
Jam Journeys.
With Jam events, your team
will collaborate to solve open-ended challenges,
fostering shared learning, creativity
and trust.
Teams work together to complete challenges
across common use cases and
operational tasks
and they will receive points based
on their ability to do so.
They compete with other teams
for the coveted top place on
a live leaderboard
and the team with the most points wins.
For individuals that
want to test their knowledge and skills,
they will start an AWS Jam
Journey.
They can work independently to solve
a series of time bound un-guided
challenges designed to teach AWS
best practices around Security,
Migration,
DevOps, A.I., Machine
Learning, and more.
Like Jam events, Jam Journeys
are open ended. However, clues
are available to help navigate if
needed.
Learners are assessed on their accuracy
and timing to build solutions.
By the end of a Jam Journey challenge,
an employee will prove what they know
and uncover what they don't.
This offers a unique perspective
into their own skills gap. They
can then jump back into Skill Builder
and begin to fill that skills gap
with specific training.
Learners can test the depth of their
expertise with exam prep for
AWS Certification.
AWS Certification delivers value
to both organizations and
employees demonstrating cloud
proficiency critical to business
ROI and a boost to individual
career development
when it comes to preparing for an AWS
Certification,
learners can come straight to the source
for high quality AWS
developed technical content.
Each digital exam prep course
includes a comprehensive review
of technical content,
lab exercises, practice questions,
and AWS Certification official
practice exams.
These exams are developed with
the same style and rigor as the
actual certification exam
and can be taken as many times as needed.
We also have practice question
sets which are sets of 20 questions
that will provide immediate feedback on
the correct and incorrect answers.
For leaders Skill Builder provides
you with the visibility to help you drive
organizational capabilities that are critical
to your needs.
Assess and optimize learning effectiveness
with the learning administrative dashboard.
Here, you can track the results
and impact of Skill Builder
at all levels of your organization.
You can invite, organize,
and group users together across
your organization.
Here, you can enable your leaders
to assign specific training to their employees
and drive specific skills needed
for your cloud projects.
Leaders can also monitor engagement and
training adoption
with detailed built-in reporting
to show course enrollment, progress,
completion rates, and much more.
Next, with the pre-configured reporting
dashboard, you can all become
experts in the various styles of training
and roll out programs throughout your
organization.
Use this data to understand
how your teams prefer to learn and
customize training to drive adoption
and engagement down the road.
This helps foster a culture of continuous
learning for your organization.
Managers and leaders at your organization
can have meaningful training plan conversations
with their employees and track
progress towards their individual training
goals.
And finally, you can adjust
your training strategy and scale
subscription seats as needed with the
seat management portal.
That's a quick tour of Skill Builder. I've
shown you its breadth across technical
domains, its depth for every skill
level, role, and learner preference.
Combining Skill Builder with AWS
instructor led classroom training
along with AWS Certifications
will equip learners and leaders
with critical cloud skills and
industry recognized credentials
that change lives and transform
organizations.
Thank you for your time today and please
connect with us to learn more.