AWS impact in communities
We continuously invest in communities where Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers are located by supporting local jobs, generating economic growth, providing skills training and education, and unlocking opportunities for local businesses and suppliers. We also establish sustainability initiatives and develop engagement programs in collaboration with local organizations. Find out how our investments in eastern Oregon and northern Virginia have made a difference to the people in these regions.
Watch: Data Centered: Eastern Oregon—A new docuseries that tells the stories of local people and what it’s like having data centers in the community.
Learn more about our impact in eastern Oregon
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Get the latest news on how we support small businesses, create jobs, set up sustainability initiatives, and develop educational programs near our data centers. -
From job creation to supporting local schools, community-based organizations, and businesses, AWS is proud to call Oregon home. -
Building robots helps these Umatilla High School students build more than tech skills. -
Ruth Daugherty is taking a class, developed by AWS, on how to build and service computers. She told us what she and her classmates have learned so far. -
Farm City Fence provides AWS with high security fences for our data centers. Learn about Farm City Fence’s moving story of friendship, family, and their hopes for the future, as they strengthen the foundation for a business they hope to pass to the next generation. -
Alma Nuñez Lezama’s business, Xocolatl Bakery, is one of many local companies in eastern Oregon that have benefited from AWS’s $15.6 billion investment in the region. -
AWS data centers in Oregon are already powered with at least 95% renewable energy. -
Recycled water from AWS data centers is irrigating hundreds of acres of land in Umatilla, Oregon, helping farmers grow crops like corn, soybean, and wheat. -
American Rock Products is collaborating with AWS to lower the carbon footprint of new data centers in Oregon. -
The contribution expands the number of initiatives AWS already supports as part of our ongoing effort to invest in local communities. -
Our collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation will offer young people and the wider community interactive learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, math, the arts, and tribal-first foods. -
We teamed up with Peter Hernberg—who teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton—to create the Data Center Technician Training Program. The initiative helps people access new cloud computing career opportunities, regardless of their experience.
For more information on AWS's investments in eastern Oregon, download the fact sheet.
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