Aviatrix Blog 
The holiday season is here! And while the season of giving often involves gifting to others, have you thought about the gift you’d like to give yourself?
This year, we’d like to offer you the gift that keeps on giving: multicloud education.
As enterprises become increasingly multicloud, they seek qualified and experienced multicloud experts. According to a recent survey, 76% of employers are already multicloud; 90% say they will be multicloud in the next two years. And this is how the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program can benefit you! ACE is the industry’s first and only multicloud networking certification. Its comprehensive training and specialized courses provide a deep understanding of building, operating, automating, scaling, and securing multicloud networks across any cloud – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (formerly Google Cloud Platform or GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and more.
The ACE Program allows IT professionals like you, from novice to expert, to customize their learning journey based on cloud education interests. ACEs can progress through our standard learning path, starting with Associate, then Professional, and finally to Design Expert, and take optional courses in Operations and Automation for specialized cloud roles.
The ACE Program offers a variety of learning options to fit many interests. Read on to learn about the trainings we recommend as you reflect on 2022 and set professional and educational goals for yourself in 2023 and beyond. Who wouldn’t want to start 2023 with new cloud skills to fast-track their career?
ACE Associate
Learn the basic networking and security concepts for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, as well as an overview of the Aviatrix Cloud Networking Platform features. The Associate certification is a prerequisite for all other training.
- Intended Audience: All – Cloud sales professionals, plus operations, infrastructure, network, cloud, and DevOps teams
- Level: Foundational
- Time Commitment: 6-8 hours
- Delivery Method: Self-paced and virtual instructor-led
- Format: Coursework and final exam (self-paced) and coursework and hands-on labs (instructor-led)
ACE Associate – FastTrack Training for AWS, Azure, and GCP Employees (3 separate course offerings)
Learn the basic networking constructs of each CSP and how they relate to either AWS, Azure, or GCP networking. These accelerated Associate trainings enable CSP employees to receive their ACE Associate certification in a condensed timeframe by keeping their existing expertise in mind.
- Intended Audience: All CSP Employees – sales professionals, Cloud Solutions Architects, Customer Engineers, Customer Success Managers, Technical Account Managers, Network Engineers
- Level: Foundational
- Time Commitment: 4 hours
- Delivery Method: Virtual instructor-led
- Format: Coursework and hands-on labs
ACE Professional
Deploy proven design patterns for a multicloud network architecture.
- Intended Audience: Cloud Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Network Architects
- Level: Professional
- Time Commitment: 3 days (20 hours)
- Delivery Method: Virtual instructor-led
- Format: Coursework, hands-on labs, and final exam
ACE Design Expert
Design your own highly available, scalable, and secure multicloud network architecture and defend it in front of a panel of judges. The Professional certification is a prerequisite.
- Intended Audience: Cloud Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Network Architects
- Level: Expert
- Time Commitment: Weeks to prepare; 90-minute presentation
- Delivery Method: In-person
- Format: Design submission and defense presentation
ACE Associate – SAP Specialty Training
Learn the basic networking and security concepts for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI as well as SAP fundamentals with a focus on S/4HANA.
- Intended Audience: All – Cloud sales professionals, SAP Basis Architects, plus operations, infrastructure, network, cloud, and DevOps teams
- Level: Specialty (foundational)
- Time Commitment: 6 hours
- Delivery Method: Virtual instructor-led
- Format: Coursework and hands-on labs
ACE Automation – Specialty Training
Use Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform and GitHub) to build, enhance, and secure infrastructure.
- Intended Audience: Operations and Infrastructure teams
- Level: Specialty (intermediate)
- Time Commitment: 4 hours
- Delivery Method: Self-paced
- Format: Coursework and hands-on labs
ACE Operations – Specialty Training
Troubleshoot real-world Day 2 cloud issues.
- Intended Audience: Operations and DevOps teams
- Level: Specialty (intermediate)
- Time Commitment: 8 hours
- Delivery Method: Virtual instructor-led
- Format: Coursework and hands-on labs
Learn more at www.aviatrix.com/ace