Overview
For staff and instructors there is essentially unlimited credits for labs on all three main clouds. This is a short cheat sheet to resources available to faculty and staff.
GCP
Overview
Google Cloud, https://cloud.google.com/ education resources.
Free Training and Free Credits
- Get Free Training Credits: https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/gcp/training
- Code Labs: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud
- Higher Ed Learning Center: https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/gcp
- AI Education: https://ai.google/education
Note, to get “free” Coursera vouchers, you should go to “Request training credits” here: https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/gcp/training
Certifications
- Professional Cloud Architect: https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-architect
- Study recommendations are here: https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-architect
Cloud Work Environments (IDE/Notebooks)
- Colab Notebooks (Useful in almost any class): https://colab.research.google.com/
**AWS **
Overview
Amazon Cloud, https://aws.amazon.com/, education resources.
Training and Free Credits
- Account Rep: Jorge Negron, jorgnegr@amazon.com
- Main Training Link: https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/
- Current AWS academy nominees: Noah, Ashwin, Mehul
- Academy username style: username@ucdavis.edu.awsacademy
- AWS Qwiklab: https://awsacademy.qwiklab.com/my_learning
- Provides credits within a “lab” environment that spins up real machines
Cloud Work Environments (IDE/Notebooks)
- Cloud9: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/tutorial.html?icmpid=docs_ac9_ide#tutorial-tour-ide
- Sagemaker: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/gs.html
**Azure **
Overview
Microsoft Cloud, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ education resources.
Training and Free Credits
- Main Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/imagine-academy/default.aspx
- 2018 Certification Roadmap: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VMZbz-9VZCmlJqrN_Vjmt9yj-qXjZ_f1
- Educator Development: https://member.imagineacademy.microsoft.com/educator-development?whr=urn%3Afederation%3Ao365
Kaggle
Overview
Kaggle Data Science contest site, https://www.kaggle.com/
Cloud Work Environments (IDE/Notebooks)
- Can use create Kaggle to create in class competitions: https://www.kaggle.com/about/inclass/overview
DataCamp
Overview
Has free resources for Universities, https://www.datacamp.com/courses