Vancouver is one of only two Amazon Tech Hubs in Canada

The anchor and the cluster

Amazon’s Vancouver Tech Hub employs more than 4,500 people, one of only two Amazon Tech Hubs in Canada — the other is Toronto. Alongside that corporate anchor sits a genuinely large gaming and visual-effects cluster: British Columbia hosts roughly 11,000 of Canada’s approximately 34,000 video-game industry workers, spread across around 150 studios — close to a third of the national total in one province.

A creative-technical economy

That produces a creative-technical economy distinct from Toronto’s finance-and-AI orientation or Montreal’s academic-research base — Vancouver’s digital identity runs through games, film and visual effects, drawing on the same production infrastructure that makes the city a major film location. Vancouver’s tech identity is creative-technical, not purely corporate — a portfolio that shows visual and design sensibility will land better here than one that only demonstrates technical capability.

How Vancouver businesses buy digital work

Creative-industry adjacent and internationally exposed through the major studios, alongside a conventional West Coast Canadian consumer economy that is comfortable with digital tools and somewhat pricier than the national average, reflecting Vancouver’s cost of living.

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Vancouver: one of only two Amazon Tech Hubs in Canada, built on gaming and VFX

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