News & Trends
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How AWS is helping Ukrainian students continue learning
With millions of families displaced, hundreds of schools damaged or destroyed, and infrastructure under constant threat, the education of Ukrainian students is at risk. That’s why schools and universities have turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to h
31.05.2025
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Two free AWS initiatives help build foundational cloud skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced two free training initiatives that make it easy for individuals to get hands-on cloud computing skills training in a fun and engaging way. The first initiative is a new game-based role-playing experience, called AW
31.05.2025
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New AWS program spotlights innovators in education
K–12 school districts, colleges, and universities are adopting new technologies that are reshaping the education experience. From immersive learning environments and virtual classrooms to innovation in science, digital capabilities offer great promis
31.05.2025
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AWS expands $30 million Impact Accelerator fund to women founders
Women founders receive just a portion of the funding that male founders get. Some of the highest estimates indicate that just 18% of venture capital funding goes to startups with women and men on their founding teams, with only 2.8% and dropping to t
31.05.2025
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AWS Girls’ Tech Day in Virginia (and beyond) is back October 1
If you are (or know) a school-age girl or a young woman pondering your next step, know this, the technology industry needs you. So do the broader fields of science, engineering, arts, and math. And while progress is being made, not enough young women
31.05.2025
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What two startups born in one of the planet’s most remote nations can teach us
Many Icelanders have an expression they live by: Þetta reddast! On the surface, it roughly means, "It'll work out." Yet as Armann Kojic, an Icelander and the CEO and co-founder of nanomaterials company Nanom, points out, as with most idioms, the deep
31.05.2025
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AWS CEO emphasizes the importance of unity in building the future of the cloud
You could see it in all the grins and assortment of hugs, fist bumps, and laughter-filled conversations in the food truck lines. It had been a minute.A minute since Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees, “builders” as they are known in AWS parlance, ha
31.05.2025
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AWS provides $14M in cloud services to help advance equal access to health care
The global need for health equity is receiving increased attention as new evidence reinforces the stark contrast in health outcomes from countries with varying levels of resources. Findings from the World Health Organization’s research on Social Dete
31.05.2025
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Meet 6 women-led startups selected to join the next AWS Impact Accelerator
As part of its continued $30 million commitment to provide underrepresented founders with the resources, capital, and community they need to level the startup playing field, AWS is welcoming a cohort of 25 women founders to its AWS Impact Accelerator
31.05.2025
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How AWS is helping its employees positively impact their communities
We all have a role to play in addressing the systemic challenges that underrepresented groups have historically faced. Amazon Web Services (AWS) understands the importance of providing passionate employees with the opportunity to do just that. That’s
31.05.2025
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AWS customers use the cloud to make mental health and wellness resources more accessible
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying lockdowns led to social isolation for people around the world. Adding to that, the pandemic’s ripple effects led to job loss, grief for loved ones lost to the disease, loneliness, and a host of other stressors t
31.05.2025
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AWS is partnering with a concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers
Over the last year, a 40-year-old construction materials company located on the border of Washington and Oregon—American Rock Products (ARP), a CRH Company—has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a new, more sustainable concrete mi
31.05.2025