Educate / Vocareum / Classroom?

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Hi,
I'm a lecturer at Sant'Anna University in Pisa (Italy), besides having been a SDE-II in DynamoDB, a few years back.
I've been using AWS Educate/Vocareum in the last few years in a course on Cloud Computing & Big-Data Lab I've been holding yearly. I'm about to begin with the usual overview of the AWS CLI, and let students play with that. In the last years, I used to create a class on Educate and/or Vocareum (for free), then let students of my class use (restricted) EC2 services for the basic tools we see during the course, for free and without having them to enter any credit-card detail on AWS.
This year, I'm not finding such an option, throughout your Educate web portal. Is it still possible to let users play for free with basic EC2 services, during a university class? I'm particularly interested in playing with the CLI to create VMs, S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, AutoScaling groups, etc... I noticed Vocareum seems to be now a detached service, charging 10 USD / month / active learner, which is quite different from what my prior experience has been.
Thanks & kind regars,

Tommaso

Giovanni Lauria · Answer

AWS Educate offers free, self-paced cloud learning resources. However, the free tier, including EC2, may not be enough for a university class. You may need to contact AWS Educate Support for more details.

As far as I know, **Vocareum is now a separate, paid service, no longer free as part of AWS Educate.**

If AWS Educate or Vocareum’s free tiers don’t meet your needs, consider AWS Academy. It provides a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum, but students may need to create their own AWS accounts and could incur costs.

Educate / Vocareum / Classroom?

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