AWS Academy also offers entire couses (e.g. AWS Academy Cloud Foundations), which serve as preparation for AWS certification exams. We are not following that curriculum because it wouldn't fit at all with your program at Seneca, and regardless it has questionable value.
* Why things cost money == Cost == Often times internet service users make a ridiculous assumption that "if it's on the internet, it must be free". Nothing in life is free. As a minimum you're paying for a service you received indirectly. Search engines show you ads - which affect you whether you realise it or not. Video and audio providers brainwash you with barrages of messages from sponsors. Amazon has to compete with Microsoft's Azure and many other technology stacks, so they're paying to encourage more engineers to learn/use AWS, which will bring them more clients in the cloudlong term.* Students are Seneca does not provide ''any'' AWS credits. Amazon does. Which means you're responsible for their using those credits appropriately, and if you waste them: you'll have to find some other way to do the required labs in OPS345. We'll talk more about AWS usage, including paying for itcosts in the upcoming Lab 1.
= Workstation setup =
