AWS Academy
The facts below are what the maker publishes about AWS Academy, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From AWS Academy's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Academy | Free | Eligible accredited higher-education institutions · educator-nominated access · institution-level membership · No cost to join |
The facts
Each one read from AWS Academy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecting course length
- Cloud Architecting contains approximately 40 hours of lectures, hands-on labs, and project work.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Associate curriculum
- Associate courses cover Cloud Architecting, Cloud Developing, Cloud Operations, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Membership is open to higher education institutions offering accredited degrees, diplomas, certificates, or continuing education programs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Certification alignment
- Most Academy courses align with AWS Certifications, but AWS recommends supplementary study before exams.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Certification preparation
- Most AWS Academy courses align with AWS Certifications and help prepare students for certification exams.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Curriculum
- Courses cover foundational cloud concepts, architecture, development, operations, data analytics, and AI/ML.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Curriculum flexibility
- Educators choose which course content to deliver and how long to spend on it; recommended time allocations are not required.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- AWS handles training data under its privacy notice and shares it with an institution coordinator when that coordinator arranged participation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Delivery flexibility
- Educators may choose which content to deliver and how much time to spend on each topic; recommended allocations are optional.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Educator benefit
- Approved educators receive course access, enablement sessions, 100% certification-exam discounts, and 12 months of AWS Skill Builder subscription access.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Educator benefits
- Educators can request a 100% discount voucher for AWS Certification exams and receive complimentary AWS Skill Builder subscription access for 12 months.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Eligibility
- Membership is open to institutions offering accredited degrees, diplomas, certificates, or continuing-education programs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Foundational curriculum
- Foundational offerings include Cloud Foundations, Generative AI Foundations, Machine Learning Foundations, Data Center Technician, Engineering Operations Technician, and Cloud Security Foundations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hands-on labs
- The Learner Lab lets educators create classes, invite students, assign projects, view student workspaces and analytics, and access over 100 AWS services.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Lab projects
- Project options include data-pipeline, web-application, cloud-security, and microservices CI/CD builders.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Lab service coverage
- Learner Lab provides access to more than 100 AWS services after educators complete the getting-started course.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Learner Lab
- Learner Lab lets educators create classes, invite students, assign projects, inspect workspaces, and view time-and-money analytics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- AWS owns the Academy training content and grants a limited, revocable, non-transferable educational-use license; some materials may separately use Apache 2.0.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: depth and lock-in
- G2 reviewers mention occasional lack of depth and concern that concentrating on AWS limits exposure to other cloud platforms.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Amazon Web Services as a public IT-services company headquartered in Seattle, with 10,001-plus employees and a 2006 founding year.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Educator cost
- Educators can join without paying and may request a 100% AWS Certification exam discount voucher.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Learner cost
- Learners join at no cost and institutions may request certification vouchers discounted by 50%, which redeem for full value.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: cost
- G2 reviewers repeatedly complain that certification and training costs can be high, especially in weaker currencies.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Institution application
- Applications must be submitted by an authorized institutional program administrator using an institutional email address.checked 15 Oct 2026
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