Students can access content modules designed to
teach the skills they need for cloud careers
Relevant cloud internships and jobs from top
employers featured on the AWS Educate Job Board
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced new capabilities for AWS Educate, a
global initiative to provide students and educators with the
resources they need to accelerate cloud-related learning. AWS
Educate now offers students a more direct way to put their cloud
knowledge to use with over 25 self-paced content modules known as
“Cloud Career Pathways,” which are made up of instructional videos,
lab exercises, online courses, whitepapers, and podcasts. The Cloud
Career Pathways align to four overarching job families, which are
also represented in the new AWS Educate Job Board: Cloud Architect,
Software Developer, Operations-Support Engineer, and Analytics and
Big Data Specialist. AWS Educate maps students’ academic training
on AWS Educate, and their achievements in the Cloud Career Pathways
to relevant internships and jobs posted on the AWS Educate Job
Board, which features top employers, including Amazon, Cloudnexa,
Instructure, Salesforce, Splunk, Udacity, and more. To learn more
about AWS Educate, visit: http://www.awseducate.com.
“We built AWS Educate with a vision of helping to cultivate a
cloud-enabled workforce. It’s been inspiring to see students from
every corner of the globe – from Brooklyn to Bombay to Singapore to
Seoul – embrace AWS Educate, eager to digest learnings from top
computer science courses, and get their hands on their first Amazon
S3 bucket,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public
Sector, AWS. “Based on that vision, we are taking the program one
step further and adding a connection to employers who are in need
of the cloud skills students can learn on AWS Educate. We’ve
designed Cloud Career Pathways that will help students get targeted
experience and skills, and placed those side-by-side with relevant
jobs from some of the most in-demand technology employers
today.”
In addition to AWS Educate’s core benefits – AWS Promotional
Credits, online training, self-paced labs, a library of AWS
resources, and educator-shared content – AWS Educate now features
Cloud Career Pathways and the AWS Educate Job Board. The more than
25 Cloud Career Pathways are made up of content modules designed to
teach the technical skills required in hundreds of cloud-related
jobs. Each Cloud Career Pathway includes a minimum of 30 hours of
content designed to build core skill sets across the four job
families. After students successfully complete Cloud Career
Pathways, they receive digital micro-credentials in the form of
badges and certificates that appear on their AWS Educate profile,
which students can leverage on their own job applications. Students
can apply directly to relevant jobs posted on the AWS Educate Job
Board, which features cloud internships and jobs from some of the
top technology companies.
At Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Majd Sakr’s cloud computing
course uses AWS Educate, and has grown from a few dozen students in
2013, to several hundred students in 2016. Dr. Sakr said, “AWS
Educate hasn’t just been beneficial, it has been transformative. We
have the ability to give students the opportunity to learn computer
science skills through large hands-on projects on the AWS Cloud.
With AWS Educate, we can offer projects at scale and be innovative,
without needing to buy any on campus resources. Students have been
eager to bring these timely cloud skills to their first jobs, and
I’m thankful that AWS Educate can help.”
Udacity is an online education company with a mission to bring
accessible, affordable, and highly effective learning to the world.
Udacity helped design AWS Educate’s Cloud Career Pathways by
providing over 30 courses that align to the job
families. “We’re thrilled to make Udacity courses available to
students via AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways,” said Zhalisa
Clarke, VP of Business Development at Udacity. “These courses
are applicable to some of the most in-demand fields today. The
mission of AWS Educate perfectly aligns with our belief that
education and lifelong learning is a basic human right, and we look
forward to working with AWS to make STEM content available to more
students around the world.”
Instructure, a learning management system (LMS) company, is
using the AWS Educate Job Board to recruit employees. Jeff Weber,
Instructure’s senior vice president of people and places, said,
“Today, technology is helping to drive business growth. At
Instructure, we believe our success can be attributed to our
team of innovators, who not only believe in our mission to make
software that makes people smarter, but have the aptitude and
capability needed to execute on our vision. We are a lean but
growing team and we depend on each member to help us deliver
proactive solutions to our customers. To that end, we are excited
about the opportunity to align our open positions to AWS Educate’s
new Cloud Career Pathways. The skills learned through the pathways
represent core competencies we are looking for in our future
employees and leaders.”
Since May 2015, AWS Educate has provided over 500 institutions
with access to cloud computing training, tools, and technologies.
The new AWS Educate capabilities are available to students in the
United States, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and China at
launch. To learn more about AWS Educate, visit:
http://www.awseducate.com.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
70 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise
applications from 38 Availability Zones (AZs) across 14 geographic
regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland,
Japan, Korea, Singapore, and India. AWS services are trusted by
more than a million active customers around the world – including
the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
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