With a full extra day of content, two new venues, and twice as many breakout sessions as last year — this year’s re:Invent looks to be unlike any before. Keep in mind, this is AWS so we can expect every modern IT topic and trend to be covered, including IoT, containers, mobile, and big data, making it an IT even you won’t want to miss.
Read moreAmazon Web Services’ yearly shindig, re:Invent, turned out to be yet another whirlwind of information and product releases. Here’s the skinny on all of the important new services, in the order of what I see as the most impactful. Like all major cloud providers these days, AWS is launching these services in beta or preview mode. But in AWS parlance, that simply means that the services don’t yet have all features they’d like to see in production. All of the services below are available for immediate use.
Read moreIt’s common knowledge that earning an AWS certification is a great way to qualify your experience in the eyes of your peers and employer and to increase your organization’s proficiency with AWS-based applications. However, there is another benefit that has not be quantified until now. Results from the 2014 IT Skills and Salary Survey conducted by Global Knowledge and Windows IT Pro revealed that the average pay of four AWS certifications exceeded $100,000. While there is no guarantee that a certification equals a six-figure salary, it certainly couldn’t hurt.
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