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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a cloud skills-focused three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UK government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The arrangement will see AWS provide three years’ support to the MoD’s Digital Skills for Defence programme, which is geared to provide “critical” digital skills to people working in the defence sector.
Specifically, Amazon’s involvement in the initiative will see it roll out cloud-based skills development and training to thousands of defence personnel and those working in the wider defence supply chain, to protect the UK from emerging threats.
The agreement, announced during a keynote at this year’s AWS Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas, is being billed as a “first of its kind” for the MoD.
“Today marks a key milestone in the delivery of our Digital Skills for Defence programme and the development of digital skills across UK defence,” said MoD CIO Charles Forte. “Amazon’s agreement to build upon and scale up our work within the Digital Skills for Defence programme is a crucial priority that will help us realise digital transformation across defence.
“It serves as an important symbol of how we must deepen our work with the tech sector to realise our objectives. We are grateful for this commitment and look forward to developing this partnership with AWS and other companies and organisations across the sector.”
Chris Hayman, director of public sector for UK and Ireland at AWS, said the agreement shows the company’s commitment to supporting the government’s push to ensure the whole public sector has a high level of cloud skills at its disposal.
“We are proud to be the first company to sign an MoU of this nature with the UK Ministry of Defence,” he said. “We are fully committed to supporting the government’s skills agenda across the whole of the public sector, and this agreement reflects our determination to support the defence community in…
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