Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
AWS Educate
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.
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
7.
8. Global in Scope
• Automated, self service
• Students, educators,
and institutions from
around globe can join
• English-language only in
2015
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
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