News & Trends
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AWS helps diversify tech and entertainment
Did you know that Squire Technologies, a startup launched in 2015 by two Black founders, has brought machine learning and other technological and operational advances to the centuries-old, multi-billion-dollar barber industry? Squire’s valuation is a
31.05.2025
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As diversity at AWS grows, women find a sense of belonging
As a 58-year-old lesbian and parent, Meg Columbia-Walsh is intimately familiar with the challenges women can face in their careers due to conscious or unconscious bias. As a sales enablement director with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in New Jersey, she
31.05.2025
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AWS empowers startups solving critical challenges in the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is accepting applications from startups for two accelerator programs. Ten startups will be selected to participate in each of the following programs: AWS Space Accelerator assists startups using the cloud to reimagine commer
31.05.2025
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South Korean farmers grow more perilla leaf with machine learning
Every day, for years, SangYoung Park, a farmer in Geumsan County, South Korea, spent a substantial part of his day going back and forth to his farm’s five greenhouses to open and close the windows.If you think that sounds time-consuming and repetitiv
31.05.2025
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Climate Next: Using data to address tree cover and climate change
On average, low-income neighborhoods have about 15% less tree cover and are 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than high-income areas. This issue is called “shade equity,” a social and environmental justice concern focused on ensurin
31.05.2025
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How AWS is helping women and girls succeed in technology careers
After working in the tech industry for more than 20 years, Donna Edwards knows what it’s like to be the only woman in the room. She now leverages that experience to serve as a role model for other women—something she feels Amazon Web Services (AWS) e
31.05.2025
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AWS contributes technology resources to support humanitarian relief
Over the past month, nonprofit, government, and commercial customers have requested assistance in accelerating important humanitarian efforts that are helping millions of refugees and people within Ukraine and surrounding countries. Amazon Web Servic
31.05.2025
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Technology powers art and social equity at AWS and beyond
Every day, women make history.Women use technology both creatively and functionally to effect change. For Women’s History Month, we're showcasing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers—from nonprofit to corporate—using tech to create institutional-level
31.05.2025
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AWS high performance computing helps find potential COVID cures
Researchers in France used high performance computing (HPC) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to isolate two chemical compounds that might slow or stop the spread of COVID-19, and potentially reduce its severity. The discoveries were made by analyzing t
31.05.2025
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Five career tips from women leaders in machine learning
Last year, Antonia Schulze, a data scientist in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Solutions Lab, had an idea. Understanding how important representation, role models, and mentoring had been to her own career journey, she started a networ
31.05.2025
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Indigenous communities in Oregon open educational lab with AWS
An educational lab focusing on the connections between scientific topics and cultural traditions aims to encourage a new generation of environmental leaders in Oregon.Developed by the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) with su
31.05.2025
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AWS launches $30 million Impact Accelerator for underrepresented founders
In 2018, Claudius Mbemba (mem’buh), a Black man who grew up in Cameroon before moving to the United States, co-founded his first venture scale business—a managed marketplace app for vacation rental cleaning services called Neu (now Spritz). It gave h
31.05.2025