Inside AWS Technical Essentials Training: Evozon at Transilvania Digitală Inovativă 5.0

When you put sixteen working IT professionals in a room (well, a virtual one) and ask them to spend their evenings learning AWS after a full workday, you find out pretty quickly who is serious about leveling up. Spoiler: all sixteen of them were. This is the story of how Evozon delivered AWS Training as part of Transilvania Digitală Inovativă 5.0 program.

We just wrapped up the first group of our AWS Technical Essentials training, delivered in partnership with Asociația Transilvania IT as part of the Transilvania Digitală Inovativă 5.0 program. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Evozon was thrilled to bring this one to life, and we want to share how it went, what people built, and what is coming next.

The program behind the course

Transilvania Digitală Inovativă 5.0 is a free upskilling initiative run by Asociația Transilvania IT, open to people employed in Romanian IT companies (CAEN group 62) in the Nord-Vest and Centru regions. The goal is simple but ambitious: keep the country’s tech workforce sharp on the technologies that actually move projects forward, including cloud, AI, cybersecurity, UX, and more.

Our slot in the program was AWS Technical Essentials: a 30-hour journey through the core AWS services, taught online, with real labs and a final assessment.

What we covered

The course was designed to give participants a working map of the AWS ecosystem, not a tourist tour, but the kind of map you can actually navigate with. Across thirty hours, we walked through:

By the end, the goal was for every participant to be able to look at a real-world business problem and start sketching a sensible AWS architecture for it: secure, resilient, and cost-aware.

How we ran the sessions

Each three-hour session was deliberately split between theory and hands-on practice. We did not want a slide marathon. We wanted people opening the AWS console, breaking things, and figuring out why.

To make that possible, we had the support of AWS, who provided test accounts for the participants. That meant no awkward “you cannot try this at home” moments, everyone had a real sandbox to spin up EC2 instances, configure VPCs, deploy Lambda functions, and explore IAM policies safely. A huge thank-you to the AWS team for backing the group this way.

Once we got through the curriculum, we ran additional consolidation sessions that were purely practical, no slides, just exercises and scenarios where participants pulled together everything they had learned. Those sessions turned out to be some of the most valuable parts of the course.

The course closed with a final knowledge assessment, and every participant who passed received a certificate of completion recognized at the employer level.

Meet the trainer

Hi! I’m Ioana Vantu, an authorized trainer with deep, hands-on AWS experience. My approach is the opposite of the “death by bullet point” stereotype. I anchor every concept in something participants can build, break, and discuss. The flow I designed is exactly why the theory-to-practice ratio felt natural rather than forced.

The group: sixteen IT professionals who showed up to learn

This first group brought together sixteen people from across the IT sector, a mix of developers, DevOps engineers, testers, and IT support, with AWS experience ranging from “I have heard of S3” to “running infra on production.” That kind of mix could have been a challenge. Instead, it became one of the strengths of the group.

More experienced participants shared scenarios from their day jobs, while those newer to AWS asked the questions that kept the discussion grounded in real situations. The chat stayed active with links, follow-up questions, and useful side notes throughout the sessions.

What stood out was the engagement. These sessions ran after working hours, when people would normally be winding down, but participants stayed involved, asked questions, and worked through the labs without watching the clock.

The feedback we collected reflected that. Participants told us they appreciated the balance between concept and console, the realism of the scenarios, and the fact that the consolidation sessions gave them confidence to actually use AWS at work, not just talk about it.

What is next

This was the first group, not the last. We are continuing the partnership with Asociația Transilvania IT, and we will be running more AWS groups under both Transilvania Digitală Inovativă 5.0 and the newer FutureReady IT program, an even larger initiative aiming to upskill 602 IT professionals across Romania, with AWS as one of the headline tracks. Stay tuned: announcements will follow as soon as the next groups open up.

Beyond training: work with Evozon on AWS

Training is one slice of what we do. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Evozon’s AWS practice spans the full lifecycle: migration, cloud architecture and setup, modernization, cost optimization, operations, and yes, training and enablement for your team.

If your organization is moving to AWS, scaling on it, or trying to get more out of what you already have running there, we would love to talk. Whether you need an architect, a migration partner, or a customized training track for your engineers, our team can help you get there with less friction and more confidence.