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Accenture AWS Academy will promote training in cloud services

Accenture and Amazon have launched 'Accenture AWS Academy', an initiative through which a scholarship has been awarded to 20 university students from all over Spain with the aim of promoting their training in services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Through a theoretical-practical course, both companies have allowed them to become certified as AWS Certified Solutions Architech Associate and thus improve their employability in the labor market.

Improve training in cloud services for young Spaniards. With this purpose in mind, Accenture and Amazon launched the Accenture AWS Academy training proposal, which, in the words of Miguel Álava, director of AWS for Southern Europe, is "an opportunity to invest in the future of the Spanish technological community by training to students to expand their skills and knowledge of the cloud to build an innovative future thanks to AWS. "

Of the same opinion is Javier Sanz, head of cloud at Accenture Iberia, who describes this initiative as "an action that unites the academic and business world". "The students reinforce what they have learned in college and then put it into practice in projects and with real clients," he adds.

For this, Accenture AWS Academy is divided into two types of actions: a two-week, part-time practical theoretical course, taught in person at the Accenture Training Center in Madrid by the experts of both companies; and a practical part, of between three and six months, in which young people participate in a real project and demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired during their training.

"These practices are paid, part-time and will have the help of a tutor who will supervise them at all times," says Sanz, who explains: "In this way, we offer students theoretical training of Amazon cloud services, with small slots in which we tell you different use cases, among which is that of Accenture itself, where we have carried out a complete process of 'cloudization' to the point that today 95% of our systems are in Cloud".

Asimsimo, the manager emphasizes that "the assistants are going to be able to put into practice what they have learned with real clients; and, as a result of all this, obtain the AWS Certified Solutions Architech Associate certification, which, without a doubt, will open the doors of the labor market. "

The 20 selected, meanwhile, recognize the opportunity offered by this training. This is highlighted by Juan García, a student of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, who says it is "a good opportunity to learn what AWS services are". Some knowledge that are key for Román García, a student of Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who recognizes that these emerging technologies "have a greater demand for work".

"This initiative will allow us to contribute more talent to the labor market and to strengthen the ties between the business world and academia", concludes the cloud manager at Accenture Iberia.

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