Continuous further development of AWS competences and business areas

Competence Center: Amazon Web Services

Internal "AWS University" with further training events and exchange within the AWS community

We keep up with the developments in the AWS cloud.
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The competence center Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizes the continuous development of the AWS skill sets and business areas of HMS. We see ourselves as an internal HMS “AWS University”. On the one side we organize interesting training events for AWS cloud newbies; on the other side we enable experienced colleagues to continue to expand their AWS cloud knowledge.

For our AWS projects, we are the central contact for technological questions within our company. Thereby, we can guarantee the highest quality for our customers. We actively reach out to the AWS community and strengthen HMS’ position as Advanced partner within the AWS partner network during AWS user group meetings or AWS conferences.

Strategic Knowledge Goals

Continuously strengthen the position of HMS as expert for data, analytics and AI within the AWS partner program
Connect HMS employees with the AWS community
Organization of AWS education for all HMS employees - from cloud newcomers to expert architects
Deepen HMS knowledge about AWS reference architectures and AWS development practices
Support AWS projects at HMS

Mark talks about his work in the competence center

What is it like to work in the competence center?

We have a couple of project teams which are researching best practices and building templates for HMS – e.g. currently for topics like “Serverless Cloud Data Platform” and “GenAI”. If you want, you can join these initiatives. If you bring your own good idea, we will put you in contact with other AWS specialists and provide you with resources to try things out. Furthermore, we always need help monitoring the latest developments in the AWS cloud. Therefore, we follow relevant online news outlets and visit conferences and community events.

How does working for the competence center help you?

You constantly learn about the AWS cosmos. Joining the competence center helps me spend my personal budget for knowledge work in the most efficient way. The constant interaction with fellow AWS enthusiasts ensures that I do not take a wrong turn – and working in a team is more fun than studying on your own. On top you train your skills to convey knowledge and explain complex technology all the time –a key competency for any consultant.

Which methods or technologies do you focus on and how?

In general, we focus on data, analytics and AI technology. The exact topics are then usually determined by our members in the competence center. Primarily, we meet for a small seminar talk with extended discussion. More and more, however, we also have hands-on tutorial sessions and we have a journal club where we discuss AWS whitepapers.