AWS and WGU
Amazon Web Services
What is AWS?
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services a cloud computing platform that offers customers a wide array of cloud services. It provides thousands of different cloud services to individuals and businesses, from storage to IT infrastructure. But AWS is working with institutions and employers to help prepare students around the world to join the cloud workforce through its AWS Academy and AWS Educate programs.
What is AWS Educate?
AWS Educate is a global initiative by Amazon to give students, educators, and educational institutions resources to boost cloud learning. AWS Educate focuses on the next generation of IT and cloud professionals, helping them get the cloud learning resources needed to be successful.
AWS Educate works with institutions to embed cloud-specific learning into programs of study aligned to entry-level job requirements to prepare students for in-demand careers in cloud computing. WGU worked closely with AWS Educate and AWS Academy to design the bachelor’s degree in cloud computing. The benefits for WGU students include hands-on activities and labs to build in the cloud.
AWS Educate also provides self-paced learning content to hundreds of thousands of students to help them grow technical expertise through AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways and Badges. In addition to the learning pathways, AWS Educate student members receive promotional credit to work in the AWS Console and access to the
AWS Educate Job Board to explore thousands of jobs and internships from Amazon and other companies around the world.
What is AWS Academy?
AWS Educate is a global initiative by Amazon to give students, educators, and educational institutions resources to boost cloud learning. AWS Educate focuses on the next generation of IT and cloud professionals, helping them get the cloud learning resources needed to be successful.
AWS Educate works with institutions to embed cloud-specific learning into programs of study aligned to entry-level job requirements to prepare students for in-demand careers in cloud computing. WGU worked closely with AWS Educate and AWS Academy to design the bachelor’s degree in cloud computing. The benefits for WGU students include hands-on activities and labs to build in the cloud.
AWS Educate also provides self-paced learning content to hundreds of thousands of students to help them grow technical expertise through AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways and Badges. In addition to the learning pathways, AWS Educate student members receive promotional credit to work in the AWS Console and access to the
AWS Educate Job Board to explore thousands of jobs and internships from Amazon and other companies around the world.
AWS Certifications
There are currently AWS Certifications available in the following degrees: B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Network Operations and Security, B.S. Software Engineering, and both the Multi-cloud Track and the AWS Track of the B.S. Cloud Computing degree. In these degrees, students take the exams as part of the degree program at no extra charge. Once certain coursework is passed, students get a voucher to take the certification exam for free. The following certifications are available in these degree programs:
B.S. Information Technology
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
B.S. Data Analytics
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
Accelerated B.S. Information Technology to M.S. IT Management
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
B.S. Cloud Computing (AWS Track)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Developer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator-Associate
B.S. Cloud Computing (Multi-cloud Track)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
B.S. Software Engineering
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Additional AWS Certifications
The rest of the AWS Certifications are valuable in different ways, depending on the career path you are hoping to take. Certifications offered through AWS include:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
- AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty
- AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Get Started on a Cloud Computing Degree
Begin your journey with the AWS Academy curriculum and pursue AWS Certifications in the AWS and Multi-cloud Tracks when you apply to the cloud computing degree at WGU.
