The document discusses AWS Educate, a program by Amazon Web Services to address the growing demand for cloud computing jobs. AWS Educate provides students access to AWS services, learning content, credentials and job opportunities. It partners with over 2400 educational institutions globally reaching hundreds of thousands of students. The program offers career pathways in cloud computing and helps fill the need for high-skilled technical jobs in areas like development, security and architecture.

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Staff Retainment Beyond Salary:
Steps to Skill, Empower, and be an Employer of
Choice
Ken Eisner
Global Head AWS Educate
AWS
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Jeff Olson
Chief Data Officer & SVP of Technology
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College Board

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AWS Educate: Addressing the
Grand Cloud Workforce
Opportunity

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Cloud and the 4th industrial revolution
Mechanization of Textile Industry:
• 1764 Spinning Jenny and 1768
Water Frame
• Birth of the Factory
Assembly Line and
Mass Production
(1913, with Henry
Ford)
Personal Computer
and Internet
(1980s/90s)
1700 200019001800
The Cloud and IoT,
Robotics, Machine
Learning, etc

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+42% YOY growth rate
Leading to dramatic growth of AWS …
$31b yearly run rate

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… and millions of jobs
in the Cloud!
Average AWS Certification Salary2:
AWS Certified Developer, Associate: $138k
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate: $115k
AWS Certified SysOps Admin, Associate: $108k
“Cloud Computing” has been the #1
LinkedIn skill for four years in a row1
1 https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/10/20/top-skills-2016-week-of-learning-linkedin
2 Global Knowledge 2016 IT Skills and Salary Report

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PROBLEM: We can’t fill the demand for these jobs
• Time to hire increased 80% from 2009 to
2015
• Shift toward “higher-skilled, less routine
positions requiring judgment and
technical skills”

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What is Amazon Doing to
Address the Skills Gap?

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Teaching Tomorrow's Cloud Workforce Today

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AWS Educate Value Proposition
Student Portal
Educator Portal
Employer & Recruiter Portal
Open Course
Content
Micro –
Credentials
Grants for Free
Access to AWS
Professional
Development
Job and
Internships
Communities of
Collaboration

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AWS Educate Career Pathways

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Mass demand
2400+
Educational
Institutions
Top 10
Global Computer
Science &
Information
Systems
Institutions
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Computer
Science & Information Systems
Hundreds of
Thousands
Of Students
Over 10,000
Teachers
Over 200
Countries and
Territories

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AWS Educate’s Cloud Degree Program

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More Information
Ken Eisner
@KenEisnerAWS
@AWS_edu
#AWSEducate
T h a n k Y o u

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22. Thank you!
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Jeff Olson
jolson@collegeboard.org

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