Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of its re/Start program in South Korea.
AWS re/Start is a free-of-charge workforce development training program that aims to prepare participants for cloud-related careers.
- Ham Kee-ho, the head of Amazon’s Korean unit, shared the news at a press conference in Seoul on March 7.
- Ham announced
that the company is offering a free 12-week entry-level cloud education
program course “to help the unemployed and job seekers.”
- The education program is offered at Megazone’s Cloud Education Center in Seoul. MegazoneCloud is lauded as the first and largest AWS Premier Consulting Partner in South Korea.
- In
addition to cloud and technical skills training, AWS re/Start will
connect program participants to potential employers and internship
opportunities.
- In 2020, AWS announced a goal of
training 29 million people globally in cloud computing by 2025 through
free training programs. The company claims to have trained 13 million
people so far.
