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Helping governments and businesses pioneer sustainability initiatives: Top takeaways from the AWS Sustainability Conference

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Businesses could potentially reduce carbon emissions of an average workload by up to 96% when AWS reaches its goal of purchasing 100% of its energy from renewable sources, which we are on the path to do by 2025 – five years ahead of our goal.” Scope, scale and speed in sustainability is shocking but it is a massive opportunity.”

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Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap

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We’re also on track to power our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original 2030 commitment. The data is housed on AWS, and is located and backed up in Canada. AWS currently has more than 2,800 employees in Canada, and has helped train more than 100,000 Canadians in cloud skills.