Training

Amazon has designed several training programs for its employees:

AWS Grow our Own Talent: This program provides on-the-job training and placement
opportunities to its employees and entry level candidates with no traditional background.
This helps the employees in pursuing roles in Amazon web services data centres to
innovate and safely deliver high-quality cloud computing services to customers.

Surge2IT: This training program is designed for entry-level IT employees across the
operations network of Amazon who want to pursue career in higher paying
technical roles. It helps in developing required skills to build up their career in IT
field.

User Experience Design and Research (UXDR) Apprenticeship: This program is

designed in a way that instructor-led training and real-world experience are
combined in one-year program that provides employees with the opportunity to
learn and develop research and design skills across Amazon, including Prime Video,
Amazon Fashion, Alexa, and AWS.

Career Choice: This program is a pre-paid tuition program for employees in

operations who want to upskill themselves and want to pursue further education.

Amazon Technical Academy: It is a training and job-placement program that prepares

non-technical Amazon employees with the vital skills to switch into and succeed as
software development engineers in minimum nine months. The program is curated in a
way that instructor-led, project-based learning with real-world application are combined
to make it a successful program for the aspiring software engineers

Amazon Technical Apprenticeship: This is certified by the U.S. Department of

Labor that extends paid and rigorous classroom training along with
apprenticeships with Amazon.

AWS Training and Certification: Under this program, employees get access to
free classroom and digital training to develop cloud knowledge, and also
discounted AWS Certification exams to for validating cloud expertise.

Mechatronics and Robotics Apprenticeship: This program provides the

employees to learn skills and technical knowledge required to fulfill a technical
maintenance role.
Machine Learning University (MLU): This program is designed for employees who have a
background in technology and coding and want to gain machine learning skills. It is taught
by more than 400 machine learning scientists at Amazon.