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AWS Bedrock AI Shines in 2025 Tech Skills Forecast

• By David Ramel
• 01/23/2025

Tech education specialist Pluralsight predicted great things for AWS Bedrock in a new report examining the top tech trends, tools and skills for the new year.

Pluralsight, known for its online courses and other tech education initiatives, also noted that cloud skills for platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure were among the more popular topics among tech learners in 2024 in its 2025 Tech Forecast that was announced this week.

"Some of the top skills to have in 2025? Knowledge of AI Agents, LangChain, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud service (AWS, Azure)," reads a key takeaway, illustrated by this graphic:

Notice that AI leads that list, of course, and the report also highlights AWS's AI in the form of Amazon Bedrock, identified as one of the top trending technologies to learn about in 2025:

Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a variety of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon itself, is described by AWS as, "The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models."

Pluralsight's report said, "AWS Bedrock will rise in popularity as a resume skill, as AWS closes the gap with Azure's AI offering."

The report showcased AWS Bedrock with its own section, which hawked the company's AWS education offerings for AI and ML:

AWS Bedrock is a fully managed service for building generative AI applications using the cloud, allowing you to experiment with different models for your use case, customize them for your needs, and create agents to complete tasks (Agentic AI). It also supports RAG to enrich FM responses, and combined with the various models to choose from, we predict this combination will pay off in a big way in 2025, particularly for organizations who have already invested in AWS as the company with the largest cloud computing market share.

As of late 2024, AWS has also invested in giving learners an avenue to take AI-specific foundation and practitioner certifications. In the past, there was only the notoriously difficult AWS Machine Learning Specialty, but now there is the beginner-friendly AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, giving people a clear pathway to follow.

Those Pluralsight courses join in-house education efforts offered by the the Amazon cloud at AWS Educate, giving developers and IT pros a wide range of resources to learn more about AWS.

AWS also scored well in the most popular skill IQ tests for cloud learners, claiming five out of the top seven most popular tests:

Other highlights of the report as presented by Pluralsight include:

• Only 12% of IT professionals have significant experience working with AI, and four in five AI projects fail due to a lack of internal knowledge and preparation.
• To help their AI projects succeed and reduce risks, companies will be seeking AI, data, cybersecurity, and infrastructure professionals.
• In software development, getting entry-level jobs will be harder, but skilled professionals will have an easier time finding work.

For the report, Pluralsight collected data from more than 50,000 tech learners in its database, while also surveying more than 3,000 executives and technologists and speaking "to leading domain experts to uncover the top tech trends, tools, and skills you need to know to get ahead in 2025."