AWS and Fundación Romero launch free AI and cloud courses in Peru with a goal of 250,000 students

By Agencia Andina · June 26, 2026.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Fundación Romero launched in Lima the **AWS Entrena Perú** platform, a free technology training initiative in Spanish aimed at students, entrepreneurs, professionals, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the general public over 18 years of age. Registration is now open on the program's official website.

**An ambitious goal: 250,000 Peruvians trained by 2028**

The program's stated objective is to reduce digital divides, strengthen employability, and promote the development of technological skills in the country. To this end, AWS and Fundación Romero set themselves the milestone of training more than 250,000 people in Peru by 2028, with the intention of bringing on additional partners from the public, private, and academic sectors.

Joel Vera, AWS general manager for Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, stressed that the initiative seeks to «put technological knowledge within everyone's reach». Martín Pérez, executive director of Fundación Romero, highlighted that the partnership expands the training the foundation already provides to its more than two million scholarship recipients. The foundation will contribute tutors and experts who will accompany the asynchronous content with real-time learning sessions.

**Content: AI fundamentals, agents, and business tools**

The learning paths available on the platform cover the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, **AI agents**, and digital tools applied to business. The distinction by user profile is relevant: the general public gains access to AI and cloud fundamentals; students have paths geared toward AI, agents, and technology development; and entrepreneurs and SMEs can receive training specifically in AI applied to their operations.

The explicit mention of **AI agents** as curricular content is significant: it reflects the growing demand for profiles that not only consume AI tools but understand how to design, configure, and deploy autonomous systems capable of executing tasks in a chained manner. In general, the inclusion of this module places Entrena Perú in line with similar programs from other major clouds (Google, Microsoft Azure) that have begun to incorporate agent fundamentals into their introductory-level certifications.

**Digital credentials and résumé value**

Those who complete the courses will receive digital credentials that can be shared on social media and added to résumés. This certification component is key to employability: in the Peruvian labor market, where the formal validation of technological skills remains scarce outside the university sphere, a credential backed by AWS can represent a concrete advantage in hiring processes.

**Institutional and diplomatic support**

The launch was attended by the United States ambassador to Peru, Bernie Navarro, who framed the program within a narrative of «shared prosperity»: «The future and innovation are built with prepared, creative, and committed people. Today, a U.S. company is driving a collaboration that will enable thousands of Peruvians to prepare for the jobs of the future», he stated. The initiative also has the support of the technology company Manantial, which will provide specialists for the live sessions.

**Integration of the Peruanas a la Nube program**

AWS used the launch to announce that its **Peruanas a la Nube** program —launched in 2023 with the goal of training 20,000 Peruvian women in cloud computing— will be integrated into the Entrena Perú ecosystem. The aim is to broaden the program's reach and reinforce the reduction of the gender digital divide, one of the most persistent dimensions of technological inequality in Latin America.

**Implications for agentic AI and the talent ecosystem**

That a free, mass-access platform includes a specific module on AI agents —and not only on generative AI or prompts— indicates that the market is beginning to demand an operational understanding of agentic systems beyond highly technical profiles as well. For the ecosystem of Peruvian startups and SMEs, having a broader pool of professionals with a basic grasp of how AI agents work can accelerate the adoption of tools such as Amazon Bedrock Agents or other similar solutions.

As sector context, the shortage of AI talent is one of the main bottlenecks for business adoption in emerging markets. Mass, free training initiatives like this one, backed by top-tier cloud providers, can help ease that pressure, although the leap from completing an introductory course to developing capabilities for the production deployment of agents remains considerable.

**Outlook**

The success of Entrena Perú will largely depend on the quality and retention of participants —not just on the number of registrations— and on whether the content about AI agents is updated at the pace of a field that evolves in weeks. The inclusion of human tutors by Fundación Romero is a positive differentiator compared to purely asynchronous models, but it also represents a scalability challenge for reaching the goal of 250,000 people. If the program reaches that figure with reasonable completion rates, it would represent one of the largest AI literacy efforts in the region.