Cloud Enablement through AWS Learning Paths

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Cloud Enablement through AWS
Learning Paths
Will Gathings
Business Development Mgr.
AWS Training & Certification
JP Le Goaller
Senior Manager
Solutions Architecture
Jeroen van der Leer
Product Development Mgr
ABN AMRO Bank

It’s a JOURNEY

Training as a Journey
Phase 1:
Cloud awareness
and essentials
training for a very
broad range of
employees
Phase 2:
Relevant
foundational training
for technical
employees and key
lines of business
Phase 3:
Cloud Practitioner
and/or Associate
certification for
select staff with
relevant experience
Phase 4:
Intermediate and
advanced training
for technical staff as
required
Phase 5:
Professional or
specialty certification
for select technical
staff with relevant
experience
~Months 1-3 ~Months 3-6 ~Months 6-9 ~Months 9-12 ~Months 12+
Foundation Migration Optimization

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“AWS Training helped us tremendously…my advice is,
when you start on AWS, go for essentials training for
everyone, so everyone understands the basic principles.”
Christian Boehme
Head of Data Center Infrastructure
Siemens AG

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We can help
AWS Training and Certification can help your
organization build cloud skills to make
your transition to the AWS Cloud easier, so
you can get the most out of your
investment

We Offer a Range of Training Options

AWS Certifications Validate Knowledge

AWS Training Paths

Value proposition
Help customers:
• Understand the AWS services portfolio
• Adopt cloud architecture best practices
• Increase staff confidence
• Drive enthusiasm and appetite for change
• Be set up for success in their cloud adoption

Educate on AWS services
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
S3
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon
SQS
Amazon
DynamoDB
AWS IoT
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon ES
Managed Serverless
Amazon EC2
Microsoft SQL
Server
“On EC2”
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
CloudWatch

Teach Cloud Architecture and Best Practices
Think cloud-native

From this…
“I have 3,465 VMs on premises and I will migrate them to
3,465 cloud instances”
“I am closing my data center and I will use an AWS region
as my new data center”
The Cloud is someone
else’s datacenter
EC2 EC2 EC2 EC2
EC2 EC2 EC2 EC2
EC2 EC2 EC2 EC2

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To that…
Data stored in
Amazon
DynamoDB
Dynamic content in
AWS Lambda
Amazon API
Gateway
Browser
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon S3
Amazon Cognito

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And that too
Amazon CloudWatch:
Monitoring metrics
Amazon S3:
Buffered files
Kinesis
Agent
Record
Producers Amazon Redshift:
Table loads
Amazon Elasticsearch Service:
Domain loads
Amazon S3:
Source record backup
AWS Lambda:
Transformations &
enrichment
Amazon DynamoDB:
Lookup tables
Raw records
Lookup
Transformed records
Transformed recordsRaw records
Amazon Kinesis Firehose:
Delivery stream

Cloud architecture best practices
Security Reliability
Performance
efficiency
Cost
optimization
Operational
excellence

Design for Security
The ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering
business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Implement a strong identity foundation
• Enable traceability
• Apply security at all layers
• Automate security best practices
• Protect data in transit and at rest

Design for Reliability
The ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service failures,
dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate
disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.
• Automatically recover from failure
• Scale horizontally to increase system availability
• Cattle vs pets
• Managed services
• Automated change management
• Automatically recover from failure

Design and operate for performance efficiency
The ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system
requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and
technologies evolve.
• Leverage elasticity
• Benchmark instance types, storage volumes,
database options etc.
• Optimize networking
• Leverage performance-oriented features
• Use managed services and serverless architectures

Strive for operational excellence
The ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value
and continually improve supporting processes and procedures.
• Align operations processes to business objectives
• Perform operations with code
• Make regular, small, incremental changes
• Automated deployments

Keep optimizing for cost
The ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources.
• Cost-effective resources
• Expenditure monitoring
• Optimizing over time
• Matched supply and demand: spot instances
• Use managed services to reduce TCO

Upskilling the organization

Training helps you achieve your business goals
By upskilling your organization on AWS
Reduce IT Costs
Increase
Operational
Performance
Increase Business
Agility

Jeroen van der Leer (ABN AMRO)
AWS Product Owner
AWS Training @ ABN AMRO
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2019

Some history
Merger of ABN
and AMRO
1990
Infrastructure
Outsourcing
2003
Nationalisation
2008
C-Major
2015
Merger of Fortis Bank
Netherlands into ABN AMRO
2010
IPO
2015
Banking for Better
2018
Accelerate to
the future
2018

Public Cloud Adoption at ABN AMRO
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DevOps
ABN AMRO allows DevOps
teams a large degree of
freedom. Guardrails are in
place to enforce compliance.
Scale
ABN AMRO has hundreds of
DevOps teams. Whilst not all
will adopt AWS, training has to
be delivered at scale.
Certification
In the absence of a reliable
proficiency test, it was
determined that
certification would be a
good proxy.
200+

Training Delivery
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Platform team
A platform team is usually
well aware of standards &
guidelines that are valid for
the enterprise they work in.
Video based
Provides students the ability to
learn at their own pace, in their
own time. Also provides more
breadth and sometimes depth.
Classroom
In a number of cases linear
learning – which classroom
based training provides – is
more effective.

Learnings
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Make certification
mandatory and
enforce.
Organising training is a lot of
work. Consider a partner to
do the heavy lifting.
Measure how your plan
delivers on the objectives.
Easier said than done!
Team members are
eager to take part in
training. AWS is hot!
Don’t underestimate the
hidden benefits of classroom
based training!

Talent Recruitment

Economic Benefits
*Source: Global Knowledge, 2018 IT Skills and Salary Report

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