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Canada’s workforce needs 6.5 million people to learn digital skills immediately to meet employer demand, according to a new Global Digital Skills Survey [pdf] out today. The survey, conducted on behalf of Amazon Web Services (AWS), polled companies and workers in 12 countries including Canada to see if they’re prepared for the post-pandemic economy. AWS […]
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Amazon Web Services Comes To Calgary, Will Create 5,000 New Jobs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that they plan to open an infrastructure Region in Alberta in late 2023/early 2024. The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) at launch and join the existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal, which also consists of three Availability Zones. Globally, AWS has […]
Invest Vancouver Launches Cloud Workforce Training Initiative With AWS
Invest Vancouver has announced a new high tech workforce development initiative in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to prepare thousands of B.C. residents for well-paying jobs in the region’s growing tech sector. Metro Vancouver will be the first region in Canada to introduce the regional training initiative that is based on a successful AWS […]
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
Amazon announced this week at re:Invent 2020 that it plans to help 29 million people world-wide retrain by 2025, giving them new skills for cloud-computing roles as the pandemic upends many careers. Amazon’s latest initiative is geared toward those who aren’t already employed at the company. The idea, it says, is to equip people with the […]
AWS & BlackBerry Join Forces For New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform
Amazon Web Services and Ottawa-headquartered BlackBerry have announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry’s Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data […]