Closing the Gap: Building a Skilled Workforce in the

Age of Cloud Computing

Ken Eisner – Global Lead, AWS Educate

What is the Cloud and its

Impact?

Deep experience in building and operating

global web scale systems

About Amazon Web

Services

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…get into cloud computing?

How did Amazon…

Amazon’s Definition of

“Cloud Computing”

On-demand delivery of IT

resources via the Internet with

pay-as-you-go pricing.

NIST Definition of

“Cloud Computing”

Model for enabling ubiquitous,

convenient, on-demand network

access to a shared pool of

configurable computing

resources that can be rapidly

provisioned and released with

minimal management effort or

service provider interaction.

ON DEMAND } UNIFORM

PAY AS YOU GO

AVAILABLE

+64% growth rate

AWS is growing at a dramatic rate

$10b yearly run rate

Over 1 million active customers

18M

And the Growth of the Cloud Drives Jobs

Cloud Jobs Today*

*Source: WANTED Analytics

How Cloud Jobs Stack up Globally

40%

jobs in

China

Graphic Source: WANTED Analytics

What’s the Rub?

We Can’t Fill the Demand for Cloud Jobs …

… as the Pace of Innovation Quickens

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AWS New Services / Features

Why do we care?

Spreading cloud evangelists speeds IT innovation

Startups

Corporations

Research orgs

Nonprofits

Government

The educational ecosystem needs us to care

Sources: The Economist and Mint Press News

Education Can’t Do it Alone

GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY

EDUCATION

We Need All Sectors Working, for Students

What is Amazon’s Initiative to Close the Skills Gap?

AWS Educate value proposition and goals

Labs and training on

cloud topics and AWS

products

Open course

content by leading

professors and

AWS

Grants for free

usage of AWS

services

Communities that

share best practices

virtually and in

person

• Positively impact many

thousands of students

• Curriculum change

• Student app development

and entrepreneurship

• Growth in AWS

Certifications / Badges

• Accelerate hiring pipeline

AWS EDUCATE STARTER ACCOUNT Helping ALL students achieve their career goals

Used by Top Computer Science Programs

Real world learning with Prof Zack Ives

Public Private Partnership in Action in LA

Change the World

AWS Educate is central to Amazon’s education and workforce development strategy, but it will only reach our most profound goals through collaboration with public private partnerships.

Together, we can change youth trajectory and positively impact the world.

Join Today

www.awseducate.com