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Amazon Web Services is the de facto standard and dominant market player, but its technology is still quite new. As such there\u2019s a shortage of skilled people. AWS only recently announced their Global Certification Program<\/a> and as stated<\/a>, it is aimed at Solutions Architects, SysOps<\/a> Administrators (The future of sysadmin<\/a>?) and Developers. Having completed the AWS certification myself, it confirmed that cloud computing is the ultimate generalist skill set.<\/p>\n A good “cloud person” will have a many of these skills:<\/p>\n If the silos of big IT (Servers, Networking, Storage, DBA etc.) were deep and impenetrable, these new AWS skill sets are very wide and possibly shallow. I suspect specialists will never go away though despite my own tendency to all things general.<\/p>\n Of course you only ever need the skills to do the job at hand. My list hints at where your job, and possibly career, could could possibly evolve to. Has anyone any personal experience of this? Did I miss anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a slow writing week. Southern-hemisphere winter colds have taken over my family and sleep has been scarce. Today’s problem is that of “Cloud skills”. Cloud is an IT sector that is growing rapidly. Many IT professionals are unsure of how to get skilled in this discipline, despite the many opportunities. Many people also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n