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AWS pledges $100M in cloud credits to help education organizations build learning tools


AWS, Amazon's cloud computing unit, today announced the Education Equity Initiative, which aims to provide "education organizations with technologies to

Tom Berry, who leads the education work within AWS’s Social Impact and Responsibility team, told me that this initiative is a bit of a departure from how the company has traditionally thought about these projects. Image Credits: AWSThe plan is to support hundreds of non-profit organizations globally over the next five years and help them build the tools to teach their local communities coding and other computer-related skills. They didn’t get computer science education in their college time,” Code.org chief product officer Karim Meghji told me.

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