AWS Education Equity Initiave

Overview

Since launching in 2006, Amazon Web Services has been providing world-leading cloud technologies that help any organization and any individual build solutions to transform industries, communities, and lives for the better.
As part of Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. We work backwards from our customers’ problems to provide them with cloud infrastructure that meets their needs, so they can reinvent continuously and push through barriers of what people thought was possible.
The AWS Education Equity Initiative expands access to future skills education for underserved learners globally. Amazon is committing up to $100 million in AWS credits and technical expertise to support socially-minded organizations develop innovative digital learning solutions that utilize cloud and AI technologies.
By future skills education, we refer to skills, knowledge and behaviors that help learners gain access to, and maintain jobs in today's increasingly tech-driven world. We welcome organizations' definitions of future skills education and you are able to share this as part of the application.
AWS will evaluate applications based on:
•    Succinct articulation of challenge(s) being faced by underrepresented and underserved learners in accessing future skills learning opportunities
•    Comprehensiveness of how proposed learning solution addresses challenge(s) outlined
•    Focus of learning solution on underserved and underrepresented communities and learners
•    Focus on skills, knowledge, and behaviors helping learners access and maintain jobs in an increasingly technology-driven world
•    Succinctly defined milestones along with timeline
•    Clearly defined impact metrics
•    Detailing and applicability of AWS services within the project scope
•    Viability of proposed sustainability plan
•    Cloud building capacity
 

Award Information: Selected organizations will receive AWS credits to build and scale learning solutions and targeted technical advising from AWS Solutions Architects.