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AWS Educate

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.

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