AWS Educate

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

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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

Thank you!Q&A

Dob and I will be available during the lunch break

fmanohar@amazon.com