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