The document outlines Alibaba Cloud's offerings and initiatives for educators and students, including cloud computing services, certifications, and academic empowerment programs. It highlights the advantages of cloud computing, the company's global infrastructure, and various career development opportunities through training and certifications in fields like security and machine learning. Additionally, it discusses benefits for students, such as free access to cloud services and educational resources.

1. Alibaba Cloud For Educators
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MVP at Alibaba Cloud
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Date:22-08-2020
Host:Skills meet

2. Agenta
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Services
• Alibaba Cloud Introduction
• Global Infrastructure of Alibaba Cloud
• Alibaba Cloud Academy Certification
• Alibaba Cloud for Student
• Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment
Program(AAEP)
• Alibaba Cloud Community Influencer program
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3. Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand
computing resources (including servers,
databases, storage, platforms, infrastructure,
applications, etc.) over the Internet.
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4. Advantages of Cloud Computing
• Cost-Efficiency
– Total cost of ownership(TCO),Upfront cost for starting a
business is reduced
• Scalability & Speed
– Scale the resource in and out
• Unlimited Storage Space
– Storage can be reduced and increased based on need
• Backup & Recovery
– Using snapshot for backup at any time
• Go Global in Minutes
– Create and deploy application within minutes
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5. Cloud Computing Services
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6. Alibaba Cloud
• Alibaba Cloud, also known is a cloud computing
company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group.
• Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing
services to online businesses and Alibaba's own
e-commerce ecosystem.
• Alibaba Cloud's international operations are
registered and headquartered in Singapore
• Alibaba Cloud Ranked No.1 by Gartner in Asia
Pacific region and 5 th in world wide
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7. Alibaba Cloud Global Infrastructure
• Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure is built around
regions and zones (availability zones).
• Region refers to a physical node on a global scale.
• Each region is composed of multiple zones.
• Alibaba Cloud regions are physical locations (data
centers) that spread all over the world to reduce
the network latency.
• A zone is composed of one or multiple scattered
data centers, each of which has independent
supporting facilities including redundant power
supplies, networks, and connections.
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8. Alibaba Cloud Global Infrastructure
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9. Alibaba Cloud Global Infrastructure
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10. Power of Alibaba Cloud-Double 11 festival
• For Double 11 Online Shopping Festival,the whole
infrastructure for the festival is provided by alibaba
cloud
• Various scenarios achieved are
– Processing of $1 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV)
in the first 68 seconds of the shopping event
– Totally $38.4 billion of GMV in 24 hours with zero downtime.
– 970 perabytes of data to support the peak performance of
544,000 orders per second
– 87 million requests processed per second
– the machine translation service was used 1.66 billion times,
with over 200 billion words translated in different
languages(21 languages)
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11. Alibaba Cloud Academy
• Alibaba Cloud Academy is the training and
certification part of the Alibaba Cloud.
• Alibaba Cloud Academy support the cloud
professionals to have a career path and certify in
different areas of cloud computing like
– Security,
– Big Data Analytics,
– Devops
– Machine Learning
• The certification details can be referred in the
website https://edu.alibabacloud.com
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12. Alibaba cloud Certification
• Alibaba Cloud Academy, provides two form of
certification,
• Alibaba Cloud Professional Certifications
– It is provided in the area of cloud computing, Big Data and
cloud Security.
• Apsara Clouder Technical Certifications
– It provide certification ,in single service or product provided
by Alibaba Cloud.
• eg,if you are interested in Devops and you want to get
certification on “Introduction to Docker Container”
alone you can get clouder certification from Alibaba
Cloud.
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13. Alibaba Cloud Certification
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14. Alibaba Cloud Learning Path
• Learning Path-The Learning Path is the list of
coursework to get on track to enhance or start a
new career in the Cloud computing industry.
• Learning Path Provided by Alibaba Cloud
– DevOps
– Big Data Analysis
– Networking
– Machine Learning
• Finally completing the Learning path in above
specfied area,you get “Engineer” certification
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15. Alibaba Cloud Learning Path
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16. Alibaba Cloud Learning Path
• Learning Path-The Learning Path is the list of
coursework to get on track to enhance or start a
new career in the Cloud computing industry.
• Learning Path Provided by Alibaba Cloud
– DevOps
– Big Data Analysis
– Networking
– Machine Learning
• Finally completing the Learning path in above
specfied area,you get “Engineer” certification
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17. Alibaba Cloud for Students
• Alibaba Cloud is proud to empower students all
around the world to become the next
generation of IT and cloud professionals.
• Eligible university students will gain access to
cloud computing and e-learning resources.
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18. Alibaba Cloud for Students-Benefits
• Get Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
for free for an entire year.
• Get 10 Free Certification Courses
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19. Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment Program
(AAEP)
• Free Educator Server to the Faculty of
Institution
• Learning Support from Alibaba Cloud Academy
to help Education Partners to complete the
Cloud computing, Security, Big Data curriculum
• Free curriculum-based hands-on labs
• Alibaba Cloud MVP candidate nomination
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20. Researcher Program
• Researchers at member institutions will have
opportunities to access world-class research
resources.
• Research Programs
– Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR)
– Alibaba Research Fellowship (ARF)
– Alibaba Talent Program (ATP)
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21. Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR)
• Financial support, dataset / database
management support and other necessary
support for innovative research projects
• • Opportunities to collaborate with Alibaba
scientists
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22. Alibaba Research Fellowship (ARF)
• Research scholar get opportunities to visit at
Alibaba Facilities.
• Datasets and relevant industrial needs in cloud
computing scenarios.
• Financial support for visiting and relevant cost
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23. Alibaba Talent Program (ATP)
• Outstanding PhD students opportunities co-
supervised by member institutions and Alibaba
on research Innovation
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24. Alibaba Cloud Community Influencer
• Contribution can be done in
– Quora,Stack Overflow,Serverfault,reddit
• Reward for Each Post
– 1 Qualified Question = $2 Cloud Credit
– 1 Qualified Answer = $4 Cloud Credit
– 1 Qualified Post = $4 Cloud Credit
• Special Awards
– Contribution Award: $50 Cloud Credits
– Hot Post Award: $20 Cloud Credits
– Impact Award: $200 Cloud Credits
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25. Recap
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Services
• Alibaba Cloud Introduction
• Global Infrastructure of Alibaba Cloud
• Alibaba Cloud Academy Certification
• Alibaba Cloud for Student
• Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment
Program(AAEP)
• Alibaba Cloud Community Influencer
program
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26. Thank you!!
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