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Rethinking AWS? My company is a heavy user of AWS but we also have a diverse workforce. Anyone else rethinking their cloud approach?


The companies are among the latest major corporations to alter their diversity programmes since Trump's re-election.

"As part of this evolution, we've been winding down outdated programs and materials, and we're aiming to complete that by the end of 2024," Candi Castleberry, Amazon's VP of inclusive experiences and technology, wrote in the December note to staff, which was first reported by Bloomberg., external Many of the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives were put in place after the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in 2020 following George Floyd's murder at the hands of police. Another court of appeals ruling invalidated a Nasdaq policy that would have required companies listed on that stock exchange to have at least one woman, racial minority or LGBTQ person on their board or explain why not.

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