Amazon launched a programme to help 29 million people retrain for cloud-computing roles by 2025 as the pandemic affects many people's jobs. The company committed USD 700 million in 2020 to reskilling 100,000 of its own US workers. The new effort will build on existing programmes and include new ones in partnership with nonprofits, schools and others.
Amazon’s latest initiative is aimed at those who aren’t already employed at the company. Its scope is to educate people to work in cloud-computing, and participants may get jobs at Amazon or other companies, including many that use Amazon Web Services.
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