aws educate
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AWS Educate:Amazon’s New Global Initiative for Educational Institutions,
Educators, and Students
Dob Todorov – Regional Technology Officer, Public Sector EMEAFelix Manoharan – EMEA Lead, AWS Educate
With the dramatically increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to dramatically accelerate cloud learning in the classroom and graduate students ready to enter a cloud-enabled workforce.
Demand for Cloud Workforce Booming
• Served several thousand students
• Relatively high satisfaction, but …
– Limits to accepted applications and burden for educators to apply and administer
– Relatively low student utilization rate
– No content or quick start tools for educators
– No collaboration
– 1:1 time-consuming process for AWS
Background: Existing Education Grants Program
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
1300+ educators
380+member
institutions
50% outside North America
5 of the top 10 global computer science programs
9,400+ students
Join at www.awseducate.com
Walkthrough:Application and Educator Collaboration Portal
Note: AWS Credits received by educators and students after acceptance into program.
Institution application:• Fully grant-driven• Simple application• Manually verified• Click-through to basic T&Cs
Student & educator application:• Fully automated, very quick
approvals• Fake or duplicate emails
rejected
AWS Educate Educator Collaboration Portal (logged in)
Build your Course enables educators to build new courses or bolster existing ones
• AWS and top educators around globe “open sourcing” educational content
• Full courses, lectures, assignments, syllabi, data sets, and how to use AWS
• At launch, content contributed from educators at six of the top seven CS/IS institutions in world
Ex: Zack Ives, University of Pennsylvania provided 2 full courses
Ex: Various AWS shared content
Free and Discounted Training on AWS Products and Services
Collaborate
Grant-Driven Access to the Cloud
On the Horizon
• AWS Certification for students• AMIs and quick start tools• Virtual AWS Support office hours• Student ambassadors• Education-specific content, plus youth
content and badges
Join at www.awseducate.com
