Amazon Web Services (AWS): Everything You Need to Know When Assessing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionalities to help businesses scale and grow. It provides a wide array of services accessible over the internet and ensures scalable, flexible, and reliable infrastructure capacity.

Overview of AWS

As a pioneer in the cloud computing space, AWS offers services that are designed to enable organizations to:

Deploy applications quickly and efficiently.
Scale resources up or down based on demand.
Optimize costs with a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Secure their data with robust, end-to-end security measures.

Core AWS Services

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): Offers scalable object storage for data backup, archival and analytics.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service): Simplifies setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database.
Amazon DynamoDB: A fast and flexible NoSQL database service.
AWS Lambda: Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

AWS for Different Needs

Startups: Offers the speed and low costs that startups need to succeed.
Enterprises: Provides the performance and scale for enterprise workloads.
Public Sector: Delivers cloud services for government, education, and nonprofit organizations.

AWS Advantages

Global Reach: A network of AWS Regions and Availability Zones for deploying applications close to users around the world.
Advanced Security: Comprehensive compliance and protection that meets even the most stringent regulatory requirements.
Diverse Tools: A broad set of tools for machine learning, artificial intelligence, IoT, data lakes and analytics, and much more.

Innovating with AWS

AWS is continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now offers more than 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Organizations of all sizes have been able to innovate faster and more cost-effectively by building solutions on AWS.

AWS is not just a cloud infrastructure provider. It is an enabler of innovation, helping businesses, developers, and governments to realize their goals in the most efficient way possible.

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We get a high flow of applicants, which leads to potentially longer lead times, causing delays in the pipelines which can lead to missing out on good candidates. Alooba supports both speed and quality. The speed to return to candidates gives us a competitive advantage. Alooba provides a higher level of confidence in the people coming through the pipeline with less time spent interviewing unqualified candidates.

Scott Crowe, Canva (Lead Recruiter - Data)

How can you accurately assess somebody's technical skills, like the same way across the board, right? We had devised a Tableau-based assessment. So it wasn't like a past/fail. It was kind of like, hey, what do they send us? Did they understand the data or the values that they're showing accurate? Where we'd say, hey, here's the credentials to access the data set. And it just wasn't really a scalable way to assess technical - just administering it, all of it was manual, but the whole process sucked!

Cole Brickley, Avicado (Director Data Science & Business Intelligence)

I wouldn't dream of hiring somebody in a technical role without doing that technical assessment because the number of times where I've had candidates either on paper on the CV, say, I'm a SQL expert or in an interview, saying, I'm brilliant at Excel, I'm brilliant at this. And you actually put them in front of a computer, say, do this task. And some people really struggle. So you have to have that technical assessment.

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