Amazon Web Services (AWS) is using AWS Educate to teach college kids how to write ‘smart codes’ and newest university to enlist their services is IIT Kharagpur. The program is also being implemented by the state government of Andhra Pradesh to skill 60,000 students across the state’s 300 engineering colleges by 2020.
Why you should care:
AWS claims that enlisting in AWS Educate isn’t just about getting a certification. The program tries to focus on learning pathways where coders are focus of the outcome, which is important if they’re looking to become data scientists.
The company also claims that cloud driven ‘smart’ algorithms are only going to become more important as consumer experiences expand across all sectors from retail and banking to transportation and health.