Kolkata: Amazon Web Services (AWS), a division of Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, will help start-ups in the social sector like education, healthcare, agriculture, e-governance and MSME by providing them with learning content and promotional credits.
Rahul Sharma, president-public sector (India) of Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, said that the initiative is a part of AWS' global programme which focuses on providing learning content, learning paths as well as promotional credit to start-ups working in these sectors.
He told reporters that AWS will provide USD one lakh promotional credit to identified start-ups and help them to grow their businesses in the MSME vertical in West Bengal itself.
The programme would also help the start-ups would access to the AWS platform and subsequently connect to the various government departments, he said.