Are You Bringing Scale and Success to Amazons Sor?

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Amazon has committed to training 29 million people by the year 20 25 in cloud skills. It's a big, audacious goal. We actually reached, i think, about one point eight million students last year. And yet, at the same time, i don't think people want to hear from us. Want to hear from amazon on every single issue on which anybody has an opinion. I also think thereare a number of areas in where we feel we can disproportionately actually have an impact,. that we actually have capabilities which allow us to have an impact. Do you think about stem education, starting at an early age, all the way up through cloud computing skills for professionals?

Amazon wants to get bigger, but with that scale comes great responsibility. So says Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, the most profitable and fastest growing part of the tech giant. Selipsky, who also oversees Amazon’s climate change efforts, points to two additions to the company’s vaunted “Leadership Principles” as evidence of Amazon’s commitment. Arguing that AWS is still in early days, he shares what he’s hearing from other CEOs about their biggest concerns, why “carbon intensity” is the best measure of climate progress for businesses, and what Amazon's aspiration to be “Earth’s best employer” really means.

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