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Why You NEED a Cloud Portfolio in 2024
PLUS: AI Hits Over 80% Accuracy to Detect Alzheimer
Lucy Wang
July 20, 2024
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In Today’s Cloudbites:
📒 Why You NEED a Cloud Portfolio
📝 How to Build a Cloud Portfolio
📌 AWS Builders Grant to Attend reInvent 2024
☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to
🤫 PLUS: AI Hits Over 80% Accuracy to Detect Alzheimer
Read time: 8 minutes
Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites
Today, I’ll talk about the importance of having a Cloud portfolio to boost your employment prospects and how you can create your own. I’ll also share some resources to support your Cloud learning journey, as well as the latest AI breakthrough in detecting Alzheimer’s disease.
CLOUD COMPUTING ☁️
📒 Why You NEED a Cloud Portfolio
When applying for Cloud-related roles, it’ll be helpful to have your Cloud portfolio ready for potential employers to read.
A Cloud portfolio is essentially a collection of Cloud projects that you have built and can share with others.
Here’s why you need to build your own Cloud portfolio:
#1 Show Hands-On Experience
A Cloud portfolio serves as a detailed documentation of your practical skills and hands-on experience with cloud computing.
Each project in a portfolio would include project descriptions, the specific tools and services used, challenges encountered, and solutions implemented.
Your portfolio will illustrate your ability to apply Cloud technologies effectively in real-world scenarios.
#2 Demonstrate Technical Skills
Your Cloud portfolio is a platform to showcase your technical skills relevant to cloud computing, such as serverless architecture, security implementations, and many more.
By highlighting these technical aspects and describing your learning journey, employers get to assess your proficiency in various Cloud domains.
This shows the depth of your technical knowledge and problem-solving capabilities, which can make your application stand out.
#3 Evidence of Impact
A Cloud portfolio is also a medium that represents the impact of your work.
For each project, it’s good to outline the results achieved through your Cloud solutions, whether it’s optimized operational costs, improved scalability, or faster deployment cycles.
I’d also recommend you to emphasize on any innovative approaches you took because it’ll demonstrate your ability to drive value through Cloud technologies.
📝 How to Build a Cloud Portfolio
Here’s how you can build your successful Cloud portfolio.
#1 Build Project(s)
If you just started your learning journey and unsure as to what projects to build, a good starting point is to build projects that are based on specific technologies that you are most familiar with.
To better understand the framework of building a Cloud project, check out my YouTube video on 5 AWS Projects to Build to Get You Hired in 2024 (For Beginners).
As you get more used to building projects and become more confident, you can learn new skills or tools/services that expand your horizon.
Once you’ve built several projects, you should choose the ones that you believe best demonstrate your interests, skills, and learning journey to be added in your portfolio.
#2 Describe Your Projects
After selecting several projects that align with your goal(s) and best demonstrate your capabilities and passion, describe each project in detail.
You can do this by explaining:
The problem you were trying to solve
Your chosen approach in solving the problem
The outcomes or results achieved
Other insights and/or moments that you feel relevant to be added
#3 Provide (Visual) Evidence
To make your portfolio more credible, you could provide a step-by-step video tutorial and/or pictures throughout the journey of each project that you built.
Incorporating visual graphics that represent your progress is another thing you could consider to make your portfolio engaging.
You can also input testimonials from past clients, friends, or family members if the projects were for a specific audience.
#4 Choose Your Platform
Here are 3 platforms that you can choose from to post your portfolio:
Your personal website
A Github repository
Source: MoRoble (GitHub)
Social media
Source: Sachin Adi (LinkedIn)
#5 Update Your Portfolio
You can treat your portfolio as your Cloud diary.
As you gain more knowledge and skills, you would want to revisit your old projects and update them or add a new project to your portfolio.
Constant improvements will reflect your dedication and growth in the Cloud.
If you’re interested in learning more about Cloud portfolios, check my YouTube video on How to Document Your AWS Cloud Projects (To Get Hired).
📌 AWS Builders Grant to Attend re:Invent 2024
The AWS Builders Grant for AWS re:Invent 2024 is now OPEN for applications!
This is a great opportunity to attend AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by AWS where you can learn from AWS experts, access more than 2000+ sessions, network with others, and discover new ways to innovate.
The AWS Builders Grant includes a full conference pass for technologists in their first 5 years of career to attend re:Invent 2024, airfare to Las Vegas and hotel accommodations for five nights.
Participants will have access to five days of re:Invent content and activities along with learning opportunities.
Applications will close on August 2nd 2024, 5:00 PM PDT.
☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to
#1 Azure – Fundamentals (July 22 & 23)
Develop an understanding of foundational Cloud concepts, models, and service types, as well as Azure services on computing, networking and storage.
Click here to register.
#2 Azure – Fundamentals (July 23 & 24)
Develop an understanding of foundational Cloud concepts, models, and service types, as well as Azure services on computing, networking and storage.
Click here to register.
#3 AWS – Deep Dive into Amazon Q (June 28 – July 26)
Discover how Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant, can revolutionize your workflow and boost productivity across organizations.
Click here to register.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 🤖
🤫 PLUS: AI Hits Over 80% Accuracy to Detect Alzheimer
Researchers have built a new AI model that measures the likelihood for a patient with mild cognitive impairment to get Alzheimer’s with 82% of accuracy rate.
💡Here’s what you should know:
The AI model uses cognitive assessments and MRI scans to produce outcomes
It classifies patients into 3 categories: expected to maintain cognitive stability, likely to experience slow progression, and those at highest risk of Alzheimer’s
These predictions are validated using 6 years of follow-up data and were tested across countries to demonstrate its global applicability
If this model is to be applied in the healthcare industry, there will no need for expensive radioactive procedures like PET imaging to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
Note: The model is being developed at the moment. It’s not yet available for commercial usage.
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