AWS

Dec
12
2020
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud

Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud

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New programs seek to help people from Montana to Nigeria attain roles ranging from tech support to machine learning. While some participants in the program might find jobs at Amazon, many could be hired elsewhere, including by clients of Amazon Web Services, the company said. Amazon Inc. announced an effort Thursday Dec 10, 2020 aimed at helping 29 million people world-wide retrain by 2025, giving them new skills for cloud-computing roles as the pandemic upends many careers. The online giant committed $700 million last year to reskilling 100,000 of its own workers in the U.S. The new effort will build on existing…
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Nov
29
2020
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

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Cloud giant AWS has a lust for Rust Programming Language so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language. Amazon Web Services has quietly revealed that it has hired Rust compiler co-lead Felix Klock. AWS's Matt Assay wrote that the company "increasingly builds critical infrastructure like the Firecracker VMM using Rust because its out-of-the-box features reduce the time and effort needed to reach Amazon's high security bar, while still delivering runtime performance similar to C and C++." AWS likes Rust so much it sponsored the project and said the company has even "started hiring Rust and Tokio committers…
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