Coming together for our global communities

Youth apprentice and Amazon UX Designer Shakibul Alam encourages young people to explore career pathways and get ahead through the Amazon JumpStart program.

Economists looked at Amazon’s U.S. investments—from job creation to powering local economies—here’s what they found.

Amazon’s 2023 Accelerate conference recognized sellers who are a ‘force for good’ in their local communities by combining their love for giving back with running their growing businesses.

Prime Video celebrates the diverse experiences, voices, and stories of the Hispanic and Latino communities. Here are 18 great movies and shows that celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

Amazon is a powerful engine of growth for the Canadian economy. Through innovation, investments, and job creation, Amazon is helping transform the economic potential of communities.

As part of a continued partnership, the organizations will use combined distribution capabilities to provide low-income parents with diapers and wipes.

High school seniors received a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship to study computer science starting this fall with a paid internship opportunity.

In September 2021, Amazon committed $1.2 billion to provide 300,000 employees with access to education and skills training programs—including college tuition for front-line employees—through 2025 as part of Amazon’s Upskilling 2025 pledge.

Amazon expands the reach of its childhood-to-career computer science education program that provides underserved and underrepresented communities access to STEM education.

Amazon is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day by amplifying women-owned businesses, highlighting women at Amazon, and supporting women worldwide.

Amazon will direct $25 million from the $2 billion Housing Equity Fund to preserve and create affordable housing as part of an innovative pilot program established by Washington Senate Bill 5466.

We partner with local nonprofits to address critical social issues, using our infrastructure, ingenuity, and passion for innovation to build stronger communities where our employees live and work.

AWS Machine Learning University is now providing a new program that will help institutions serving historically underserved and underrepresented students deliver courses in next-gen tech with a free, comprehensive educator-enablement bootcamp and a curriculum based on the same courses Amazon uses to train its own developers and data scientists.

Getting AWS to be water positive requires new solutions and collaborations involving employees, global nonprofits, local communities, and public utilities—all with the same goal in mind: creating a better future for our planet.

Company joins USAID to accelerate women’s climate innovation and gender equity advancements.

Over 700 Amazon attorneys and legal professionals have worked pro bono to help right wrongful convictions, address homelessness, and protect children. Learn more from the program’s founder, Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky.

Amazon Books editors worked with an Amazon employee affinity group to create a book list that celebrates the heritage of Indigenous peoples.

Amazon’s new Catalytic Capital initiative will invest in venture capital funds that support companies led by Black, Latino, Indigenous, women, and LGBTQIA+ founders. Amazon expects to support more than 10 funds and over 200 companies through the next year.

The AWS Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Innovation Fund is expected to help employees support causes that reach 25,000 individuals from underrepresented groups around the world.

Native American students are among the most underrepresented in computer science. Amazon Future Engineer is committing $2.25 million to engage 10,000 Indigenous students in computer science by 2025.

Cultúra celebrates the individuals who move Hispanic culture forward, because without tú there is no cultura.

Amazon Music teamed up with the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective to award three students each a $10,000 scholarship and a two-week immersive rotation experience. Hear from two of the recipients.

Collaboration between AWS and the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation will offer interactive learning in science, technology, engineering, math, the arts, and tribal community first foods.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working with StartOut to offer 50 mentorships, along with business and technical expertise for LGBTQ entrepreneurs starting their own businesses.