Students dive deeply into cloud computing best practices and learn how cloud computing helps users develop a global infrastructure to support use cases at scale while also developing and inventing innovative technologies. This course provides students with classroom instruction that introduces cloud computing skills and accelerates students toward the next steps in their educational journey. The content of this course is aligned to the K–12 Computer Science Framework Practices including computational thinking. The seven core practices of computer science describe the behaviors and ways of thinking that computationally literate students use to fully engage in today’s data-rich and interconnected world.

Course Objectives

 Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following:

         Describe what a cloud service provider (CSP) is and the value they bring to computing

         Describe basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model

         Define the billing, account management, and pricing models

         Identify sources of documentation or technical assistance, for example, whitepapers or support tickets

         Describe basic or core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud