Students dive 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 is an extension of AWS Academy Introduction to Cloud: Semester 1. The 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 the AWS Cloud is and the basic global infrastructure

         Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles

         Describe the AWS Cloud value preposition

         Describe key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases (for example, compute and analytics)

         Use key services in lab activities for hands-on practice, including but not limited to the following: