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With AWS in Education, the company noted, educators, academic researchers, and students worldwide can obtain free usage credits to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors and explore new projects - tasks that previously would have required expensive investments in infrastructure. AWS in Education also provides self-directed learning resources on cloud computing for students.
"The flexibility and instant scalability of the AWS cloud have made it a popular environment for teaching courses and tackling research projects in basic programming, application development, distributed computing, and more," said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services. "Whether giving students experience in cloud computing or assisting in sophisticated research, AWS in Education makes it easy to get going."
To assist educators in bringing the cloud to the classroom, AWS is offering grants of $100 per student for free usage of AWS infrastructure services in eligible courses at accredited universities. Faculty can apply for these grants via a simple online form and provide their students with hands-on access to the same infrastructure services used by software developers and IT staffs around the world.
"In Fall 2008, we moved Harvard's 300-student introductory Computer Science course into the cloud via Amazon EC2," said David J. Malan, Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University. "Our goals were both technical and pedagogical. As Computer Scientists, we wanted full control over our course's infrastructure so that we could install software at will and respond to problems at any hour. As teachers, we wanted easier access to our students' work as well as the ability to grow and shrink our infrastructure as problem sets' computational requirements demanded. Moreover, because of AWS we were able to integrate into the course's own syllabus discussion of scalability, virtualization, multi-core processing, and cloud computing itself. What better way to teach topics like those than to have students actually experience them."
"Using AWS for our Web 2.0 Application Development courses has been a phenomenal resource," said Armando Fox, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley. "Administration was so easy that students were able to get their projects deployed quickly, and venture capitalists attending the final project demos were impressed at the level of polish and creativity that a small student team could produce in just a few weeks."
Information on Amazon Web Services and applications for grants for usage credit:
http://aws.amazon.com/education
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