The competence center Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizes the continuous development of the AWS competence and business fields of HMS. We see ourselves as an internal HMS “AWS University” that offers all employees interesting training events and gives experienced colleagues the freedom to continuously deepen their expertise. Outside of HMS, we actively engage with the AWS community and strategically develop HMS within the AWS partner network.
Working in the competence center is a give and take: On the one hand, I develop strategically relevant (or simply exciting) topics and disseminate them within the company. On the other hand, I naturally benefit from my colleagues who do the same.
The collaboration helps me to maximise the benefits of my knowledge budget: Interacting with colleagues ensures that I don't get bogged down in a dead end. At the same time, I can constantly develop my ability to impart knowledge, which often proves valuable.
In principle, we base our choice of topics on specific user needs, but also on the interests of the individual contributors. The primary method of knowledge transfer is short keynote speeches followed by discussions. However, we also offer practical hands-on workshops and specific case studies.
A colleague dove into the depths of Cloud Quest for us. Without any prior knowledge of AWS his avatar conquered one or two learning dungeons. He presented the results, alongside his takeaways… can cloud skills perhaps be actually acquired through playful learning?
We took a closer look at the different ways of marrying IaC and AWS. The focus was on AWS CDK and Terraform, as well as their individual strengths and weaknesses.
