Amazon pledges $100 million to help students develop AI skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced its commitment to leveling the playing field ineducation , ensuring that students from disadvantaged and marginalized communities have access to life-changing learning opportunities.

AWS wants to help students develop literacy, cloud computing, and AI skills

Accordingly, AWS will provide up to $ 100 million in cloud credits over the next 5 years for educational institutions around the world to build or expand their digital learning solutions. This is part of the newly launched Amazon Web Services Education Equity Initiative.

The new program will provide participating organizations with cloud computing credits to use AWS cloud services, giving them access to a comprehensive portfolio of cloud services and advanced AI services to develop innovations such as AI assistants, coding curricula, connectivity tools, digital learning platforms, mobile apps, chatbots, and other digital learning experiences.

Additionally, organizations will receive dedicated technical support from the AWS Solutions Architect team, which will provide comprehensive architectural guidance and best practices to help organizations deploy AI responsibly, as well as ongoing support for optimizing the solution to ensure optimal performance.

The AWS Education Equity Initiative builds on Amazon and AWS’s longstanding commitment to providing educational and career opportunities to underserved students. Over the past year, more than 2 million students have taken 17 million hours of science , technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, literacy skills, and career development delivered through programs such as Amazon Future Engineer, a program dedicated to helping underserved and marginalized students access computer science education, and other Amazon education programs.

With this Education Equity initiative, AWS can now support nonprofits, education technology companies, social enterprises, government agencies, and CSR teams to expand learning and development opportunities to underserved and marginalized communities.

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