Our Upskilling Commitments

We will provide training opportunities through existing AWS-designed programs, as well as develop new courses to meet a wide variety of schedules and learning goals.

How Amazon is providing skills training and upskilling programs to help adult learners and employees advance in their careers.

Our free training is designed to meet a wide variety of schedules and learning goals. Each program offers something different. Read on to learn more and get started.

Our $700 million commitment to pilot, launch, and scale training programs to upskill employees in our corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, providing access to skills that will help them move into in-demand, higher-paying jobs within or outside of Amazon.

New research from Accenture finds that one in three low-income American workers, if provided with access to training for new skills, have the potential to access higher income occupations that are forecasted to grow in the future.

Accenture Research has been collecting over 6,000 global workforce sentiments every few weeks since COVID-19 hit. Here is an op-ed from Accenture, based on the findings.

This innovative Amazon program is designed to support our employees who are interested in pursuing a future outside of the company. The Amazon Career Choice Program will pay up to 95% of tuition and associated fees for courses at accredited schools that lead to vocational certifications or Associate of Applied Science degrees in qualified fields of study.

Our tuition-free training and job placement program that equips non-technical Amazon employees with the essential skills needed to transition into and thrive in technical careers at Amazon. Combining instructor-led, project-based learning with real-world application, graduates master the most widely used software engineering skills and tools, including AWS cloud computing technology.

This initiative helps Amazon employees with a background in technology and coding gain skills in this discipline. As machine learning plays an increasingly important role in customer innovation, this program helps employees learn core skills to propel their career growth.

We’ve created programs that provide opportunities to get trained while at work, in high-demand areas like cloud computing. This is one way to support veterans as they break into careers, such as cloud support associate, data center technician, and software development engineer.

Designed for individuals looking for foundational cloud computing skills, all the way to seasoned IT professionals looking to stay up to date on the latest technologies, we offer more than 500 free courses, interactive labs, and virtual day-long training sessions, and numerous free instructor-led webinars, in multiple languages. AWS Training and Certification also runs AWS Tech U, a 48-week residency program designed to help a select group of new AWS employees launch a successful cloud career.

Upskilling program provides training in mechatronics and robotics—for careers in robotics—with hourly wages up to nearly 40% higher for employees upon completion.

The American workforce is changing. There is a greater need for technical skills in the workplace than ever before. Amazon is no exception—we want to hire, develop, and retain the best talent in order to continue to invent on behalf of our customers.

An op-ed from UpSkill America at The Aspen Institute: We study the ways employers are investing in the education, training, and development of workers and then work with other companies to adopt those practices as they create, expand, or improve their own upskilling programs.

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