AWS Educate is Amazon's global initiative to accelerate cloud learning for educational institutions, educators, and students. It provides four pillars of support: labs and open course content on AWS products and cloud topics, grants for free AWS services, educator collaboration tools, and communities for sharing best practices. The program is self-service, automated, and available globally in English. Over 1,300 educators and 380 institutions from over 50 countries have already joined, along with over 9,400 students. The initiative aims to graduate students ready for cloud-enabled careers.

1. AWS Educate:
Amazon’s New Global Initiative for Educational Institutions,
Educators, and Students
Dob Todorov – Regional Technology Officer, Public Sector EMEA
Felix Manoharan – EMEA Lead, AWS Educate

2. 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.

3. Demand for Cloud Workforce Booming

4. • 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

5. Amazonian Scale
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Education Grants Program
AWS Educate

6. 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

8. Global in Scope
• Automated, self service
• Students, educators,
and institutions from
around globe can join
• English-language only in
2015

9. Pace of Adoption
1300+
educators
380+
member institutions
50% outside
North America
5 of the top 10 global computer
science programs
9,400+
students

10. Join at www.awseducate.com

11. Walkthrough:
Application and Educator Collaboration Portal
Note: AWS Credits received by educators and students
after acceptance into program.

12. Institution application:
• Fully grant-driven
• Simple application
• Manually verified
• Click-through to basic
T&Cs

13. Student & educator application:
• Fully automated, very quick
approvals
• Fake or duplicate emails
rejected

14. AWS Educate Educator Collaboration Portal
(logged in)

15. 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

16. Ex: Zack Ives, University of Pennsylvania provided 2 full
courses

17. Ex: Various AWS shared content

18. Free and Discounted Training on AWS Products and
Services

19. Collaborate

20. Grant-Driven Access to the Cloud

21. 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

22. Join at www.awseducate.com

23. Thank you!
Q&A
Dob and I will be available during the lunch break
fmanohar@amazon.com