Cloud Skills Readiness with AWS EducateWith the increasing demand for cloud-skilled employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. The program offers a robust set of free tools, resources, and AWS Promotional Credits for students (aged 14+*) and educators to skill up on the cloud and accelerate cloud-related learning endeavors.

Join more than 1,500 institutions, hundreds of thousands students, and over 10,000 educators in 200 countries and territories who have already accelerated their journies to cloud skills and cloud careers!

Visit www.awseducate.com to learn more.

* AWS Educate provides its members with free access to learning content and AWS services designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing. It is available globally to students who are 14 or older, with the exceptions of China, Switzerland, and EU countries (16 or older); and Algeria, Lebanon, and Portugal (18 or older).

For Students The Cloud Career Pathway framework enables students to put their cloud knowledge to use with self-paced content in popular, in-demand subjects such as machine learning and software engineering. Each pathway includes instructional content, assessments, and a final project. Upon completion, learners are eligible to receive an AWS Educate Certificate of Completion or an AWS Educate Badge. Young learners (aged 14 -17) are provided with introductory cloud literacy content and all students have access to AWS for practice.

For Educators & InstitutionsEducators have access to the AWS Educate Educator Portal loaded with tools to help them better integrate AWS Cloud technology into their curriculum. Professors, teaching assistants, and other educators receive access to AWS technology, custom-built classroom templates, open source content for their courses, training resources, AWS Promotional Credits, and professional development opportunities. There are also LTI and LMS integration tools for educators.

For Recruiters & Hiring CompaniesCompanies offering cloud and technology jobs and internships can register for the AWS Educate Job Board, where they can post openings and reach a pool of hundreds of thousands of AWS Educate members. Hiring companies also receive co-branding opportunities with AWS Educate. Companies can specifically target cloud career pathways when they post jobs and internships in order to best identify applicants.

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Cloud Skills Readiness with AWS Educate

Benefits at a Glance Educators Students 18+ Students 14-17

AWS Credits (renews annually)

• $200 in AWS credits per educator (at member institutions)

• $75 in AWS credits per educator (at non-member institutions)

• AWS Account: Up to $100 in credits at member institutions; $40 in credits at non-member institutions

• Starter Account: $75 in credits at member institutions; $30 in credits at non-member institutions

Starter Account: $50 in credits at member institutions; $30 in credits at non-member institutions

AWS Training

• Access to labs

• Access to AWS Technical Essentials learning course

• 50% off instructor-led training & certification exams

• Access to labs

• Access to AWS Technical Essentials learning course

Curated Content

• No-cost access to AWS content for classes pre-grouped into specialty areas specific to cloud careers

• Custom-built classroom templates ready to teach in-demand topics, such as machine learning and artifical intelligence

Cloud Career Pathways with 30+ hours of content per path

• No-cost access to AWS content for homework, labs, or self-study

• Earn digital badges that showcase cloud skills

• Self-paced learning curriculum designed to introduce students to cloud computing basics

• Cloud Literacy Badge with short learning journeys containing fun interactive content and knowledge checks

Additional Tools

Educator Portal with access to AWS technology, open-source content, AWS Promotional Credits, professional development opportunities and more

• Student Portal access with ability to store projects, badges & portfolios in one place

• Access to the AWS Educate Job Board for students 18 years old or older with access to job posts from top tech companies

AWS Educate Use Cases

Workforce Development

Cloud Career Pathways provide skills needed

for specific jobs

Curriculum Development

Educators can select from curated content

to build classroom curriculum

Cloud Skills Development

Members can build skills with free access to labs, hundreds of

hours of content, and the AWS Technical Essentials course

Students receive up to $100 free AWS credits with enrollment, often popular with students

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AWS Customers Making an Impact with AWS Educate

“Cornell Tech is a revolutionary model for graduate school, forging a new intersection between academia and industry, so we were excited to be among the first universities to use AWS Educate. The content, training and educator collaboration Amazon has launched to accelerate cloud-related learning has become a great complement to our entrepreneurial programs.” – Greg Pass, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, Cornell Tech

Yonsei University, one of the most prestigious universities in Korea, will introduce AWS Educate as part of its teaching curriculum for nearly 2,000 students. AWS Educate will support the university’s mission by accelerating students’ capabilities in cloud computing skills, helping them acquire the expertise that is increasingly relevant for employment.

The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), one of Canada’s largest post-secondary polytechnic schools, uses AWS Educate to prepare students for cloud careers by using AWS Promotional Credits for compute resources in labs. These exercises move from theory into practice, helping students obtain the skills they need to get a job after graduation.

Santa Monica College partnered with AWS Educate to help create a Cloud Computing Certification. Courses are focused on the fundamentals of cloud computing and reached capacity within the first day of the program’s launch, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Carnegie Mellon has taken advantage of AWS Educate to provide educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning endeavors. “In my course at Carnegie Mellon University, roughly 500 students per year utilize AWS Educate in both face-to-face and distance learning environments, and more than 20 of my peers teach with it. In my own classroom, AWS Educate has been transformative. My students work on real-world data, projects and infrastructure that give them practical experience.” – Dr. Majd Sakr, Computer Science Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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