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What are the benefits of learning AWS technology? Cloud enthusiasts curiously ask this question.
There are tens of benefits of learning AWS skills but the most obvious one is that it pays you way more than your investment in its learning. Today, AWS professionals earn a handsome basic salary of approximately US$100,000/year with jobs guaranteeing security along side offering a wide range of career options. The pay trend has been common worldwide because top global companies have shifted to the new, remote work model.Â
Talking on facts, AWS skills are higher in demand compared to Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This article uses the most credible research sources to discern why over 1 million end-users, early stage startups and cloud learners prefer AWS to process their workloads and acquire free hands-on experience.
1. Enterprises increasingly find value on AWS Cloud
Enterprises around the globe have migrated their workloads on the AWS Cloud. According to official figures from AWS, there are over 1 million active customers of AWS that carry business workloads over the cloud. A market research from Enlyft reveals that there are 1,046,008 companies on AWS with most of the users belonging to the United States and from the Retail Industry.
Along with the above, a large span of 100,000 global partners, as well as the largest suite of 200 services (compared to Azure and GCP), companies preferably find value on the AWS platform.Â
AWS also offers small and medium businesses (SMBs) three types of absolutely free access to its cloud services unlocking for them incredible value through the most innovative cloud brand.
To understand how companies drive value from the AWS cloud, consider the following real-world problem scenarios that have been successfully tackled by Amazon Web Services.
- LU-VE is an Irish global air heat exchanger manufacturer who saw an increase in business units using its core applications: ERP and Siemens PLM. With 30% more users on the softwares now, LU-VE’s existing IT infrastructure needed to be scaled. With SAP HANA on AWS, LU-VE not only leveraged the cost benefits but acquired greater computation speed, and improved availability for the users.
- Amgen, a pharmaceutical company in the United States has recently built a data lake on Amazon Redshift (one of the AWS services). Producing new products, the leading manufacturer met an increased number of consumers resulting in greater data volume and variety. Having to move to big data, Amgen’s existing data warehouse became paltry with new hardware installations becoming expensive and time consuming. With AWS, Amgen saved hardware costs and enhanced patient experience from an end-to-end automation making data driven decision making faster and reliable.
- ISM Conseil is a drafting and design consultancy based in Canada. Innovating in floor panel designs, ISM required uninterrupted computation in simulating a floor panel design to protect workers from harmful components during smelting. Using the OnScale Solve service on AWS, ISM reached a 400% gain in processing its simulation thereby saving time and prohibitive hardware costs.
With such profound value provided to organizations, no wonder why companies see AWS skills as highly valuable and are willing to pay the highest salaries. Â
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2. AWS shows Sustainable Potential for future growthÂ
As per the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (CIPS) 2021, AWS secures the top and furthest position in the best performer (the leaders) quadrant. For 11 years straight in a row, no other competitors in the cloud computing landscape could beat AWS in the ability to execute and completeness of vision.
Apart from the promising success rate in Gartner Magic Quadrant for CIPS, AWS also leads in yet another emerging cloud area: AI services. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2022 for Cloud AI developer services, AWS leads in the ‘ability to execute’ for its AI services.Â
As a final prospect, another Gartner forecast says that the ‘end-user spending on cloud services’ are to increase a wholesome of 46%, reaching $600 billion by 2023, from $410.9 billion in 2021.Â
In the light of above stats: when more end-users will spend on the cloud, and AWS leads in the cloud services, job security of cloud professionals is guaranteed. If you’re thinking of adopting a cloud career, then this is the best time to invest in learning cloud computing skills.
Read next: how to get hands-on experience in AWS skills for free.Â
3. AWS offers Free Tier Access to its largest, geographically available services
Anyone can sign-up for a free tier access on AWS and get valuable hands-on experience on over 100 services, for the next 12 months for free. Some winning AWS services, including AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, are labeled under ‘always-free’ and don’t expire even after the 12 month period.
Moreover, for early stage startups, the AWS Activate Founders program lets enthusiasts build business on the cloud, for free. The program includes: access to AWS services under its vast 21 product categories including: ‘compute’, ‘storage’, ‘database’, ‘mobile and web’ and ‘machine learning’, as well as founder learning through free training on ‘AWS cloud practitioner Essentials’.
In comparison to the immediate competitors: Azure and Google Cloud Platform, AWS free tier offers more extensive services; over 100. For example, Azure offers over 47 services under its free tier feature whereas GCP allows for a smaller 20+ services.
As another point of comparison, the compute engine and cloud storage by GCP are restricted to just a few regions whereas end-users get free access to AWS compute and storage from any corner of the world.
The vast free services and tools available over a wider geographical reach makes AWS top priority for end-users. This creates a greater chance of conversion to the AWS paid services compared to what Azure and GCP offers. With this in mind, it’s not an over statement to day that when more companies are adopting AWS, the hands-on experience in Azure and GCP are pretty much less required compared to AWS thereof.
In conclusion, learning AWS skills is a way to promising cloud computing careers where organizations are increasingly seeking AWS experts across the platform’s largest 21 product categories housing over 200 total services.Â
4. AWS Skill Builder offers Free Learning Resources
At the AWS Trainings and Certification program, the AWS Skill Builder offers free digital learning content on 500+ courses, 10 AWS practice question sets for clearing the certification exam, and using its playful AWS Cloud Quest game as a virtual AWS practitioner.
This free digital learning, created by AWS experts, not only builds an everlasting foundation for freshers but also helps them decide a cloud computing job role that suits their interests.Â
The AWS community is another platform that treasures vast learning resources from AWS content creators who share solutions to the hard-to-solve problems. Apart from reading insightful blog posts, AWS enthusiasts can join the vibrant network of AWS developers to connect, ask questions, exchange ideas, seek technical support and career mentorship, and learn about best practices in the AWS landscape.Â
Additionally, there are volunteer-led AWS communities run by local AWS developers and industry leaders. Such platforms offer a unique support to AWS developers taking on problems in the local market. For example: the AWS Community Pakistan works to bridge the gap in academia and industry, taking students and freshers over a concrete path of AWS career.Â
In short, starting and sustaining a career in cloud computing is made super easy with the vastly available, free learning resources created and shared by the global and local AWS experts themselves.
5. AWS Certified experts can earn $100,000+/year
AWS certification brings credibility to the profile of a cloud engineer. This way, aspiring AWS experts can target high paying job roles, such as that of a cloud engineer manager, at corporate level organizations. The certification is also compulsory for a cloud architect (the most senior level job role) that pays a minimum $100,000/year in salary. Â
Organizations with a coherent vision on cloud initiatives seek experts with AWS official certification. According to the official AWS research, 90% of partner companies whose employees were AWS trained, are in a competitive position for the next three to five years. Over 70% of companies achieved many business benefits such as improved operational efficiency in cloud engineering workflows.
Note, the only way for a recognized AWS certification is through passing the official exam by AWS. Starting your AWS knowledge with its free digital training is a good idea. But to pass the exam, the majority of individuals prefer an in-person and interactive learning environment that provides an in-depth theoretical and hands-on experience by an industry expert. This way, aspiring individuals can quickly and easily grasp the crux of AWS infrastructure, tools and services.
One such opportunity is to prepare for the AWS certification exam through Dice Analytics. An in-person, interactive yet affordable learning is provided to freshers and working professionals in the AWS cloud workspace. Visit our upcoming AWS training details at Dice Analytics.
6. AWS Skills are highly compensated
According to Glassdoor, AWS cloud experts earn a basic pay that is one of the highest in IT disciplines. Following are the salary data on six AWS cloud computing job roles in the US market. Please note that, in 2022 global companies have hired cloud computing talent based on remote work model, across different regions including Pakistan. The salary is therefore competitive across the globe.
An average basic pay:
- AWS Cloud Engineer: $101,259 / yr
- AWS Cloud Architect: $117,630 / yr
- AWS Cloud Developer: $96,316 / yr
- AWS Cloud Administrator: $82,874 / yr
- Cloud Network Engineer: $101,570 / yr
- Security Engineer: $97,171 / yr
7. AWS leads in Innovation
AWS was an early adopter of cloud technology back in 2006 when no other competitor existed. In collaboration with its largest partner network of 100,000 global partners, a host of AWS services are truly innovative in nature and are novel to the AWS platform. These services include, for example, AWS Lambda and Amazon SageMaker.
As of AWS Lambda, it’s a highly value-adding feature for cloud developers that automates tasks in server management. This means, a developer just uploads the code (containing essential information on when a Lambda event is triggered and its response), and the rest of what to do with the workflow is taken care of by Lambda.
Even today, as break through technologies such as AI are increasingly used within business applications, AWS leads with its Amazon SageMaker, a cloud AI tool that lets developers deploy and run an AI trained model in a single click.
Due to its ability to innovate new tools that address challenging business problems, professionals make AWS a top priority in seeking top-notch and customized cloud services.
8. Foolproof Security services on the AWS Cloud
AWS protects workloads and applications running on its global cloud with a comprehensive set of 28 security services. AWS’s protection of the cloud is centered around three dimensions: security, identity and compliance.Â
AWS encryption, access management and threat detection services allow end-users to protect their data on the cloud from unauthorized and fraudulent access.
Identity management at scale, allows companies to seamlessly manage access control for employees and customers-facing applications. Users can protect their cloud network through AWS network security policies.
AWS also offers compliance monitoring through its automated compliance check service using which a company can get security compliance reports based on AWS best practices and industry standards the organization follows.
9. Regions and Availability
AWS cloud infrastructure is dotted around the largest, 28 geo locations that carry 90 availability zones in total. In the realm of cloud computing, an availability zone is a geographically dependent region that is assigned from to an end-user closer to its premises. Using Availability zones, AWS offers its services with a single digit millisecond latency.
Furthermore, AWS divides its availability zones into local zones and wavelength zones to provide ultra low latency to its users.
There’s more coming.
As of Q4, 2022, AWS announced 21 new availability zones and 7 new geo locations in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Thailand. Find latest information at the AWS Global Infrastructure.
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What’s the value?
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- Mentorship, career counseling and AWS official exam preparation guide is offered to learners alongside an industry recognized certificate of completion, on successful passing of the exam.
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