AWS Educate

AWS Educate

Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning and help prepare students for a cloud-enabled workplace.

AWS Educate provides:

• grant-based support for educators and students.
• content on the Cloud contributed by top educators and AWS to help you build your courses.
• training materials to help you skill up on AWS.
• collaboration tools such as a discussion forums, events, and places to upload and rate content
• credits to access AWS services for free.

What do you need 

• An AWS Account, if you don't have one then go here  http://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/ .

• You are an educator or a student.

What do you get 

• Educators in an institute (like Harvard) will get 200$ credit.
• Students in an institute (like Harvard) will get 100$ credit.

How to Apply for AWS Educate Credit for use in your AWS Account

• got to http://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/apply/

• Pick one of the three available options : 

  • • Educational Institutions: Should be applied by Harvard HUIT.

    • Educators: A professor, TA or a teacher (I will use this category as an example).

    • Students.

• Click on the Educators and on the following screen make sure to hit the educator box. 
  
• Fill out the application 
  
• AWS will send an email to the email address you provide in the application to verify that your email is valid and you own this email. The Email will include a verification code that you will your to continue the process. 
  
  
  
• Use the verification code to continue the application process.
  
• Accept the terms and submit the form.
  
• AWS will send you an email 
  
• Upon approved , AWS will send another Email with a credit code to be used (marked in red below). 
  
  
  

Redeem your AWS Educate Credit in your AWS Account

• Login to your AWS account management console as root or privileged user .
  
• On the top right click on your username account -> Billing and cost management 
  
• On the left tab click on the "credits" 
  
• the credit page will look like 
  
• Insert the "credit code" (PC17C122FMRFNXY, the one you get in AWS Educate approval email)  in the "Promo code". 
  
• Click redeem and the credit will be applied to your account.
  
• Check the complete list of AWS services you allowed to use educate credit for