Amazon Web Services is sponsoring new cloud computing and product management courses now available to more than 27,000 women who are members of the nonprofit Advancing Women in Tech, including in Greater Washington through the organization’s D.C. operation.
Alongside California-based Coursera, the partnership will offer two self-paced, online courses that were validated for college credit by the American Council on Education: real-world cloud-product management specialization and real-world product-management specialization.
Advancing Women in Tech was founded by Nancy Wang, the director of product and engineering and general manager for AWS Backup Data Protection Services at Amazon Web Services. The nonprofit works to catapult women, especially women of color, into big tech leadership roles through education and mentorship.
The nonprofit’s member base can access 75 hours-worth of educational content via Coursera to earn credits toward a postsecondary degree or land cloud computing…
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