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).

Credit numbers and codes are random and not real in this documentation

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.