Leaders at Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud shared their tips for breaking into cloud engineering. This premium story was unlocked by Verizon.
And as more organizations outsource their data-handling to AWS, Google, and Microsoft, business leaders are having to adapt"at a faster pace than they can staff," said Gartner analyst Lydia Leong.64% of tech executives said a lack of available talent had hindered their transition to the cloud, above implementation costs and security risks .
"The cloud is an enabler for all of those accelerating technologies that are becoming part of a lot of engineering disciplines," Kelly said. "You can actually be an engineer — working in software, hardware, infrastructure, networking, or machine learning," she said."But you can also work in product, or user experience, or technical program management, or developer-relationships — and then you build your skills as you go along."
"I was an arts major," she told Insider."I spent a lot of time in music and theater, I directed a bunch of plays. I was in a band for a while. I did a bunch of random things."