AWS debuted four new initiatives in its ongoing goal to educate 29 million people on its cloud services platform by the end of 2025.
The company showed off its new AWS Skill Builder courses.
This novel digital learning tool will be available to users in 200 countries and will provide more than 500 free, on-demand courses to start, with 60 more scheduled to be added this year. Content is available in 16 languages, with support for automatically generated recommendations from AWS on progression paths based around individualized job roles and technology areas.
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As the second tentpole of its announcement, AWS revealed that a portion of the Skill Builder library will also be made available on the Amazon.com retail site. This will include free courses on cloud computing basics, cloud architecture, and more. All of these offerings will be collected within the simply-named AWS Courses Section.