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We are given AWS technologies inside specially-provisioned sandboxes to teach at the university, and the courses are marketed and badged as AWS. Students get f
by mr_gibbins 4y ago
We are given AWS technologies inside specially-provisioned sandboxes to teach at the university, and the courses are marketed and badged as AWS. Students get free training, certification discounts and more.
No money changes hands, but AWS provide all the tech free, sponsor AWS awards for the students, come to jobs fairs... all the while hoping that X% of those compsci students will, in the fullness of time, come to be decision-makers who choose AWS technologies for their organisations rather than Microsoft or Google.
It's the Happy Meal principle, hard at work today.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> No money changes hands, but AWS provide all the tech free, sponsor AWS awards for the students, come to jobs fairs… all the while hoping that X% of those compsci students will, in the fullness of time, come to be decision-makers who choose AWS technologies for their organisations rather than Microsoft or Google. They don’t need that, though that’s a bonus. A surplus of technologists skilled in AWS technologies, means that its easier to hire if you are looking for AWS than it would otherwise be, so it tips the scales for the decision-makers well before any of the students become decision-makers.