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AWS’s inclusive culture inspires individuality and acceptance
As a Black man joining a global company, Jibril Touzi recalls entering the unknown when he started as a cloud support engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2014.Jibril Touzi, senior edge specialist solutions architect a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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AWS leaders share 5 tools to build equity in the workplace
Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes that technology should be built in a way that’s inclusive, diverse, and equitable. We have a responsibility to make that happen and we’re committed to putting in the work for more equal representation—from the way w
