AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Tekla Moquin
Tekla Moquin is the Skills to Jobs lead for the Americas and Asia-Pacific at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
AWS partners with Nashville Innovation Alliance to transform Tennessee’s AI and cloud workforce
AWS is expanding its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to Tennessee, which becomes the sixth state in the alliance. Through a strategic collaboration with the Nashville Innovation Alliance, this partnership aims to address middle Tennessee’s growing technology talent demand, with particular emphasis on AI and cloud computing skills, where tech job postings have increased by 35 percent between 2020 and 2023, with an estimated 8,000 open technology positions across the region.
A tech pipeline for rural communities: West Virginia joins AWS Tech Alliance
Last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to improve the employment gap by increasing tech skills globally. To kick off 2024, we are excited to announce West Virginia as the fourth state in the US to join the Tech Alliance, and the first to focus specifically on developing a tech pipeline to rural communities. Read this blog post to learn more about the Tech Alliance and its expansion to West Virginia.