Amazon Plans To Help 29 Million People Grow their Tech Skills With Free Cloud Computing Training by 2025 (aboutamazon.com) 44
cusco shares a blog post from Amazon: As part of our efforts to continue supporting the future workforce, we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing skills training to people from all walks of life and all levels of knowledge, in more than 200 countries and territories. We will provide training opportunities through existing AWS-designed programs, as well as develop new courses to meet a wide variety of schedules and learning goals. The training ranges from self-paced online courses -- designed to help individuals update their technical skills -- to intensive upskilling programs that can lead to new jobs in the technology industry.
the AWS way is $$$ (Score:4, Insightful)
A dev-ops gig is a good way for you to transfer your employer's revenue into Amazon's hands.
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Still cheaper, more secure, and more reliable for most companies than having to build and maintain their own DC.
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Total cost would be higher for using a cloud provider like AWS than building your own. Initial capital investment would be lower and that can be very desirable for corporate accounting, as they are careful about holding too many assets that can't be liquidated or at least depreciated.
I'm skeptical of the "more secure" argument, technically anything we put together ourselves can be made more secure or less secure than what someone else offers. There's no magic sauce of Amazon exclusivity to security.
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**Full Disclosure**
I work at Amazon Corporate, and formerly at AWS. Nothing to do with this story, though.
AWS has multiple security groups that are larger than the entire IT department of most large corporations, and they're staffed by some of the best in the business. I worked in the AWS SOC doing physical security for several years, and previously at a company that worked on 4 of the 5 largest integrated access control/alarm/security camera installations in the world for 8 years. I can speak with some
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> Thousands of malicious requests coming **from** amazon cloud IP addresses.
AWS: I fail to see the issue.
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You probably get thousands of malicious requests from Dell servers and through Cisco switches. Is that either Dell's or Cisco's fault?
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You can't fix stupid.
They needed to make an effort to "leave their AWS database instance open to the world", and there are multiple warnings along the way about what the consequences of your actions are. There are perfectly valid reasons why someone might make the entire contents of an S3 bucket publicly available, it's not AWS's job to make the decision as to whether the permissions set are valid or incompetent. Their job is to give the customer the tools to do what they need done. If the customer is a
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Go look up Amazon IT postings and see what you think... They look pretty fucking ridiculous to me. Now, they put 29 million people in that are trained to think that what they do is normal.
What kind of network effect does that have? What about in addition to flooding an already saturated market?
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Go look up Amazon IT postings and see what you think... They look pretty fucking ridiculous to me. Now, they put 29 million people in that are trained to think that what they do is normal.
What kind of network effect does that have? What about in addition to flooding an already saturated market?
It's all about supply and demand economics. AWS dev-ops pay pretty well right now. Initially the free training will be great for many people. But then the more laborers you have, the cheaper the labor will be, and the more AWS buckets you'll sell because you'll advertise how cheap and plentiful the workers are.
the IAC way is $$$ (Score:2)
What about in addition to flooding an already saturated market?
It's all about supply and demand economics. AWS dev-ops pay pretty well right now. Initially the free training will be great for many people. But then the more laborers you have, the cheaper the labor will be, and the more AWS buckets you'll sell because you'll advertise how cheap and plentiful the workers are.
At which point AWS and all the other cloud vendors will start putting the squeeze on infrastructure costs as they capture an increasing share of the market and squeeze all of the other vendors out. The scramble will then become how to get the best deal.
Considering this somewhat obvious outcome I've been looking at Infrastructure as code to try to find a vendor agnosic method of building cloud infrastructure so I'm not investing my resources to any one cloud vendor. I figure that one day the real ski
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Yes, yes, absolutely agree. As you said, the pretty much obvious outcome is AWS monopoly.
I don't deal with MS apps a lot, so I don't know this, but are MS apps locked to Azure? If so, that would hinder AWS becoming monopoly.
I'd heard of Terraform and I like the concept. I don't know of others, nor have searched (yet). Seems like it should work pretty well, depending on what you're really trying to do. If it's just data storage, cross-platform should be pretty easy. If you're running some custom plugi
If you're unemployed, do you care? (Score:2)
A dev-ops gig is a good way for you to transfer your employer's revenue into Amazon's hands.
Well, if you're unemployed or underemployed, how much does it really matter? I care much more about paying my bills and feeding my family than questioning the value of transferring revenue from some financial, insurance, or whatever company is hiring and Amazon.
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Yes it makes them money, so what? (Score:2)
This makes Amazon money obviously, but why is that a bad thing? If it helps people get jobs and enables companies to have the resources to provide better and more useful products .. how is that bad?
Outcome:
1. Amazon makes money
2. People get jobs managing the service and coding cloud applications.
3. Companies can design and manufacture more useful products for the consumer.
How is that a bad thing again?
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I wish they would give free training (Score:2)
on how to "secure" you AWS instances.
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They do, there are already >500 classes available and they're adding to the catalog.
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"We'll do something good in five years" (Score:2)
Let's all hold our breath, shall we?
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You first.
I think that's great (Score:2)
They're going to teach all those people how to use Azure, right?
Re: I think that's great (Score:1)
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Concepts are pretty transferable. When I was in college in Michigan I learned Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Novell, dBase and Paradox, and the AS400. Then I moved out to Microsoftland. After a minimum of floundering I adapted to Office, SQL Server and MS networking, since while the particulars were different the concepts were the same.
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How come you guys won't criticize Trump for Operation Warp Speed? Trump says the vaccine would not have been possible without his help. How come you all refuse to acknowledge Trump role in this? Do you not listen to anything he's been saying or tweeting? Amazing that none of the Trump supporters have even heard of "Operation Warp Speed." Literally every Trump supporter I've spoken to has no idea what Operation Warp Speed is, and the fact that Trump created it.
Re: The Great Reset (Score:1)
You are way off, random internet person. I love how anywhere I go, if I am not totally on board with X, people assume I am totally Y. Where did I mention Trump?
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Oh, wow, Rump did something even an illiterate Andean sheep herder would have figured out needed to be done, good for him! Annoying that he waited four months after the problem arose, and then only acted when it looked like Democratic governors were going to act first, but what can you expect from a senile orangutan?
A better headline (Score:2)
Too advance for most users (Score:2)
Reminds me of the MCSE craze 20 years ago (Score:2)
So I did that back in college and got my MCDBA certification for SQL Server 2000. I LOVED it. It taught me a lot and was very valuable in my education. It gave me a good overview of the landscape and good breadth of knowledge, far better than my university gave me. However, it was a disaster when looking for a job.
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Yes, I remember the 'brain dump' sites, which appeared just as I was finishing my MCSE. I was **proud** to have earned that title, I knocked myself out to get it and destroyed my lab at home three times in the process. Then the brain dumps came around and shit all over us.
Hook em early. To your walled garden. (Score:2)
Seems they learned well from "Free Windows for schools as 'punishment' for getting convicted for monopolism for the nth time" Microsoft! ^^
Climate neutrality ... 1990 levels.... (Score:2)
They know 1990 was everything but climate-neutral, right?
And CO2 is just one of the many ways in which we carelessly act in a way that cannot be sustained for an indefinite time, but more like a very few generations.
Also, in that light, 55% sounds utterly pathetic.
How about -200% by 2022, until the damage is undone, or you'll be convicted for mass-genocide? Because if thee actually was some higher power (like an alien species with a massive death ray), that would be their demands, and you know it.
Or am I mi
Re: Climate neutrality ... 1990 levels.... (Score:2)
Ok, this went to the wrong story. Seems Slashdot is buggy right now, because I can check what I clicked.
That's kinda like the Office Courses Microsoft did (Score:2)
back in the 1990s. It's not a sign of good will, it's a marketing exercise. If you show people only your product, people will only know your product and buy your product. That's why in the 1990s companies started to run on Excel sheets, and that's why now you have quite some projects running on AWS despite that not being one of the better solutions.
They made a MOOC (Score:2)
In other words, Amazon hired a bunch of instructional designers & subject matter experts to put together a massive open online course (MOOC). No, they won't revolutionise education/training this time either.
Who knows, maybe Amazon are getting concerned about the steady stream of news stories about companies leaving dumps of sensitive data exposed on misconfigured AWS instances?