Amazon Web Services Educate

AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the

resources needed to greatly accelerate cloud-related learning to help prepare

students for a cloud-enabled workplace.

  1. For more info go to https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
  2. Faculty members who wants to enroll their students on this program can request this service.
  3. For support related question please contact the service desk or book 10 min with the IT team using this URLhttps://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/SamihAjrouch1@mail.aub.edu/bookings/

 

The pre-built Classrooms for this service are:

AWS Cloud Basics

Services enabled: EC2, S3, RDS, Cloud9, CloudFormation, Tag

Use the AWS Cloud Basics to introduce students to fundamentals of AWS and to cloud computing concepts. Student can get their first Linux instance up in the cloud with  EC2, store and access file to create a static web site using S3, create and operate their first database using RDS, and learn about security and access control with IAM.

Big Data

Services enabled: EC2, Athena, DynamoDB, EMR, Glue, RDS, S3, Cloud9, CloudFormation, Tag

Teach big data applications such as clickstream analytics, fraud detection, recommendation engines, event-driven ETL,  and internet-of-things processing with the Big Data template. Easily provision EMR clusters for Hadoop, Spark, and other big data learning. Learn SQL vs NOSQL using RDS and DynamoDB.

Machine Learning and AI

Services enabled: Machine Learning, Rekognition, Lex, Polly, Comprehend, Translate, Transcribe, SageMaker, Deeplens, IOT Core, IOT GreenGrass, Cloud9, CloudFormation, Tag

Build a chatbot, access voice services with Lex and Polly, use image Rekognition, or use sophisticated machine leaning models tools like MXNet and Tensor flow to create general predictions with the Machine Learning template. Use deeplens camera with deeplens service, or try out new AI services such as Forecast and Personalize. 

Building Scalable Websites

Services enabled: EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Cloud9, CloudFormation, Tag

Introduce students to building and hosting scalable, elastic websites on AWS.  Use EC2 for compute, S3 to store site content, and ELB to dynamically scale based on demand.

Serverless Computing

Services enabled: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Cloud9, CloudFormation, Tag

Get students started with serverless computing using lambda on AWS for web applications, backends, and data processing apps. Serverless applications don't require students to provision, scale, and manage any servers and can be built for nearly any type of application or backend service. Everything required to run and scale an application is managed by AWS.

RoboMaker

Services enabled: RoboMaker, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis Analytics, Kinesis, EC2, S3, Lex, Polly, DynamoDB, Cloud9, Cloudformation, Tag

Learn the fundamentals of robotics development using AWS RoboMaker, then deploy capabilities to your own robots. RoboMaker extends ROS with connectivity to cloud services, provides a cloud based development environment, a robotics simulation service, and a robotics fleet management.