Cloud Skills Readiness with

AWS Educate
With 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 over 1500 institutions and hundreds of thousands students 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).
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For Students
The Cloud Career Pathway framework enables
students to put their cloud knowledge to use
with nearly 30 self-paced pathways across four
overarching job families (Software Developer,
Cloud Architect, Analytics and Big Data, and
Operations/Support Engineer). 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 Pathway graphic — the journey through Educate
have access to AWS for practice.

For Educators & Institutions

Educators 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 tech-
nology, 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.
Landing page for Educator Portal

For Recruiters & Hiring

Companies
Companies 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. Job Search
Benefits at a Glance
Educators
• $200 in AWS credits
per educator (at member
institutions)
AWS Credits • $75 in AWS credits
(renews annually) per educator (at non-
member institutions)
• Access to labs
•A
 ccess to AWS Technical
Essentials learning course
AWS Training
•5
 0% off instructor-led
training & certification
exams
Free access to AWS
content for classes pre-
Curated Content
grouped into specialty
areas specific to job
families
Educator Portal with
access to AWS technology,
open-source content,
Additional Tools AWS Promotional Credits,
professional development
opportunities and more
Students 18+ Students 14-17
• AWS Account: Up to Starter Account: $50
$100 in credits at member in credits at member
institutions; $40 in institutions; $30 in credits at
credits at non-member non-member institutions
institutions
• Starter Account: $75
in credits at member
institutions; $30 in credits
at non-member institutions
• Access to labs
• Access to AWS Technical Essentials learning course
Cloud Career Pathways with 30+ hours of content
per path
• Self-paced learning
curriculum designed to
• Free access to AWS introduce students to cloud
content for homework, computing basics
labs, or self-study
• Cloud Literacy Badge with
• Earn digital badges that short learning journeys
showcase cloud skills containing fun interactive
content and knowledge
checks
• Student Portal access with ability to store projects,
badges & portfolios in one place
• Access to AWS Educate Job Board for students 18
years old or older with access to job posts from top
tech companies
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Cloud Career Pathways Educators can select Members can build Students receive up to
provide skills needed from curated content skills with free access $100 free AWS credits
for specific jobs to build classroom to labs, hundreds of with enrollment, often
curriculum hours of content, and 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