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AWS in your community: Here’s what’s happening near data centers across the USGet the latest updates on how Amazon Web Services supports small businesses, creates jobs, sets up sustainability initiatives, and develops educational programs near AWS data centers.
Amazon renewable energy commitments will bring clean power to eastern OregonAmazon is bringing more clean energy to eastern Oregon communities with a $1.2 million contribution to fund a community solar energy program.
5 ways AWS data centers benefit local communitiesNew study shows positive impact of AWS investment in data centers on jobs, education, local businesses, the environment and more.
Committed to our communities: The economic impact of AWS’s $15.6 billion investment in OregonFrom job creation to supporting local schools, community-based organizations, and businesses, AWS is proud to call Oregon home.
An AWS technician gives us a tour of a data center in eastern Oregon—see what it's like insideFidel Contreras is a data center technician lead with Amazon Web Services. Follow him and his colleagues on a tour inside a data center and find out what it’s like to work there.
A small eastern Oregon high school is investing big in robotics with help from AWSBuilding robots helps these Umatilla High School students build more than tech skills.
AWS helped me learn how to build a computer from scratch. Here's how you can do the same.Ruth Daugherty is taking a class, developed by AWS, on how to build and service computers. She told us what she and her classmates have learned so far.
Teacher works with AWS to open up tech careers in rural communityAmazon Web Services and an Oregon community college offer an upskilling program to help local people access new cloud computing career opportunities, regardless of their experience.
How a pro rodeo rider and AWS team up to keep eastern Oregon's data centers secureFarm City Fence provides AWS with high security fences for our data centers. Learn about Farm City Fence’s moving story of friendship, family, and their hopes for the future, as they strengthen the foundation for a business they hope to pass to the next generation.
I run a small bakery in Oregon. Here’s how AWS and tech help my custom cookie business.Alma Nuñez Lezama’s business, Xocolatl Bakery, is one of many local companies in eastern Oregon that have benefited from AWS’s $15.6 billion investment in the region.
In eastern Oregon, Amazon is working with a local utility to power AWS data centers with clean energyAWS data centers in Oregon are already powered with at least 95% renewable energy.
Oregon community and AWS work together to benefit local agricultureRecycled water from AWS data centers is irrigating hundreds of acres of land in Umatilla, Oregon, helping farmers grow crops like corn, soybean, and wheat.
AWS is partnering with a concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centersAmerican Rock Products is collaborating with AWS to lower the carbon footprint of new data centers in Oregon.
AWS donates $2 million to organizations in Eastern OregonThe contribution expands the number of initiatives AWS already supports as part of our ongoing effort to invest in local communities.
Indigenous communities in Oregon open educational lab with AWSOur collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation will offer young people and the wider community interactive learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, math, the arts, and tribal-first foods.
