AWS impact in communities
We continuously invest in communities where Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers are located by supporting local jobs, generating economic growth, providing skills training and education, and unlocking opportunities for local businesses and suppliers. We also establish sustainability initiatives and develop engagement programs in collaboration with local organizations. Find out how our investments in eastern Oregon and northern Virginia have made a difference to the people in these regions.
Watch: Data Centered: Eastern Oregon—A new docuseries that tells the stories of local people and what it’s like having data centers in the community.
Learn more about our impact in eastern Oregon
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Get 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 is bringing more clean energy to eastern Oregon communities with a $1.2 million contribution to fund a community solar energy program. -
New study shows positive impact of AWS investment in data centers on jobs, education, local businesses, the environment and more. -
From job creation to supporting local schools, community-based organizations, and businesses, AWS is proud to call Oregon home. -
Fidel 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. -
Building robots helps these Umatilla High School students build more than tech skills. -
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. -
Amazon 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. -
Farm 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. -
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. -
AWS data centers in Oregon are already powered with at least 95% renewable energy. -
Recycled water from AWS data centers is irrigating hundreds of acres of land in Umatilla, Oregon, helping farmers grow crops like corn, soybean, and wheat. -
American Rock Products is collaborating with AWS to lower the carbon footprint of new data centers in Oregon. -
The contribution expands the number of initiatives AWS already supports as part of our ongoing effort to invest in local communities. -
Our 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.
For more information on AWS's investments in eastern Oregon, download the fact sheet.
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