AWS to offer cloud engineer training in Korea

• Published date: 07 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud business arm of U.S. tech giant Amazon, is offering free cloud computing education for job seekers in Korea at a time when many companies here are struggling to hire skilled cloud computing engineers, the head of its Korean unit said Tuesday.

"AWS announced its initiative to provide cloud skills to 29 million people from 2021 to 2025 and so far we have trained about 13 million people. In Korea, we have been offering education programs since 2017 and trained over 200,000 people," Ham Kee-ho, the country managing director of AWS Korea, said at a press conference in Seoul.

"To help the unemployed and job seekers, we are now offering a 12-week entry-level cloud education program course for free," Ham added, introducing the company's AWS re/Start cloud computing education program.

AWS re/Start is a program that operates in more than 180 cities in 60 countries around the world. Participants receive free education and job training to prepare for their careers in the cloud computing business.

"This is not just a program that we can solely do. There should be a delivery partner and recruitment partner," Ham said adding the company has been cooperating with Megazone Cloud, a local cloud service provider, to offer the education program, and Shinhan DS, an IT service unit of Shinhan Financial Group, to help program participants find jobs.

Participants can join the education program at Megazone Cloud's education center. The local cloud service provider also...