Las Vegas: As tech companies the world over face an acute crunch of skilled workforce in the field of Cloud computing, retail giant Amazon's Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to go beyond providing training and certification to now help students grab relevant openings in Cloud.
According to Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, the time is ripe to connect skilled students with employers via "AWS Educate" – a global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate Cloud-related learning.
"There are hundreds of thousands of job openings in Cloud computing today. 'AWS Educate' will now help students communicate with over 30 potential employers – including Amazon.
"With this, AWS Educate goes beyond just training and certification to connect skilled students with the employers and fill the skill gap in Cloud-based technologies," Carlson told a select gathering at the flagship "AWS ReInvent 2018" event here.
Another tool called "Interview Accelerator" in "AWS Educate" will help candidates advance through the job application process faster, she informed.
Globally, over 1,500 institutions and more than 10,000 educators have joined "AWS Educate" to accelerate their journey towards helping the young generation acquire Cloud skills.
The beauty of "AWS Educate" is that students, while receiving hands-on training and access to content prepared by some of the top computer science institutions from across the world, also get free Cloud credits into their accounts.
"AWS Educate" has nearly 30 career pathways to choose from which essentially belong to four big job families – Big data and analytics, Cloud architecture, system/engineering support and software/web development.
The move to connect skilled students with the right employers is going to help thousands of "AWS Educate" participants in India, at a time when the country is also facing a huge skill gap in emerging technologies.