AWS Educate:Amazon’s New Global Initiative for Educational Institutions,

Educators, and Students

Ken Eisner – Global Lead, AWS Educate

With the dramatically increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to dramatically accelerate cloud in the classroom and graduate students ready to enter a cloud-enabled workforce.

Demand for Cloud Workforce Booming

Amazonian Scale

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Education Grants Program

AWS Educate

Labs and training on cloud topics and AWS

products

Open course content by leading professors and

AWS

Grants for free usage of AWS

services

Communities that share best practices

virtually and in person

Four Pillars of AWS Educate

Global in Scope

• Automated, self service

• Students, educators, and institutions from around globe can join

• English-language only in 2015

Pace of Adoption <2 months post-launch

2000+ applications

150+member

institutions

50% outside North America

3 of the top 5 global computer science programs

Join at www.awseducate.com