DEEP TECH SKILLS IMPORTANT EVEN FOR NON-TECH SECTORS LIKE MANUFACTURING AND EDUCATION

With the current staff cloud competency levels being still far away from the ideal state, organizations now understand that skilling and reskilling is essential in bridging this gap, says Amit Mehta, Head of Training and Certification, AWS

- Aanchal Ghatak

AMIT MEHTA

Head of Training and Certification, AWS

The outbreak of the pandemic two years ago disrupted organizations like never before. As more organizations began to move their IT to accelerate this digital transformation continued to increase. According to an AWS commissioned report by AlphaBeta, titled ‘Unlocking APAC’s Digital Potential: Changing Digital Skill Needs and Policy Approaches’, digitally skilled workers currently represent 12% of India’s workforce. 76% of the digital workers in India today expect cloud computing to be a required competency for digital workers to perform their jobs proficiently by 2025. This had led to a dramatic shift in the way organizations viewed skill development programs. There has been a clear pivot in enterprise attitude towards the cloud shining a spotlight on the massive skill gap among IT teams, which could keep companies back from utilizing cloud-based platforms and processes to their full potential.