AWS launches new interactive tool to train digital talent in FSI companies

AWS Industry Quest: Financial Services is a game-based learning experience designed to teach individuals and organizations how to build solutions for fraud prevention, data lakes, serverless deposit accounts and other common industry scenarios

AWS has trained over 5 million people across APAC with cloud skills since 2017

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 8 December 2022 – At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS Industry Quest, a new interactive, game-based learning experience to help individuals and organizations develop the skills they need to build solutions for common use cases in their industry. Professionals and teams can play AWS Industry Quest: Financial Services to learn and build solutions for fraud prevention, data lakes for financial services, serverless deposit accounts, and more�with more industries to come. AWS Industry Quest is available in AWS Skill Builder, the company’s digital learning center, as part of the Skill Builder subscriptions. These subscriptions, available for individual learners and organizations in markets including Hong Kong, offer engaging, experiential learning to provide practical experience with AWS. This new announcement is part of AWS’s ongoing efforts in helping organizations of all sizes to close skills gap. Since 2017, AWS has trained over 5 million people across APAC with cloud skills.

With the pandemic driving the acceleration of digital transformation, digital skills and learning have become key components for many organizations, especially with rapid technological changes contributing to a widening digital skills gap. The demand for specialist skills was highlighted in a recent survey published by KPMG[1] in January 2022, which showed that specialist talent availability is one of the key concerns of the banking industry in Hong Kong. In order to combat this talent shortage, it is important for businesses to make digital skills training a priority.

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