A recent Public First report stated that levels of cloud adoption in Wales stood at 44%. The same report showed that by increasing cloud adoption to London levels, gross added value (GVA) would increase by £1.8 billion. But while the cloud presents new opportunities for growth, the AWS Global Digital Skills Study revealed that there is an acute skills training shortfall in the UK today, with an estimated 11.6 million people, or 35% of the country’s workforce, requiring digital skills training over the next year alone in order to keep pace with technological advancements and gain new digital skills to succeed in their careers.
To help meet this growing demand, Amazon made a global commitment to help 29 million people globally grow their digital skills with free cloud computing skills training by 2025. Our portfolio of digital skills programmes provides opportunities for the people of Wales at whatever stage they find themselves: at school, at college, at university, as well as the option to reskill and build a new career path. Other programmes offered by AWS and available in…
