Following the AWS Free Tier pre-section, VTI Cloud will show you how to create Amazon Web Services accounts with student accounts of Vietnamese universities through the AWS Educate program.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular and powerful cloud computing service, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, and Amazon S3 services.

Students, teachers, and teaching organizations can create accounts using AWS through an AWS Educate-managed grant program.

AWS Educate offers students a wide range of services including courses and discounts on additional training resources.

Visit the AWS Educate page for more information and benefits.

What do you need to sign up for an account through AWS Educate Starter?

• An email account provided by a school, college, university, etc. in Vietnam or another country with domain edu.com.vn or edu.vn. For example, [email protected].

• The email account is valid and makes sure you can sign in to this email.

• The phone number for Amazon Web Services to authenticate and then use to receive the authentication code from Amazon Web Services.

Note: This account won’t have to add a bank card (Visa or MasterCard) as usual.

Create an account

Step 1: Visit AWS Educate: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/. Click the Join AWS Educate button.

Step 2: Select your role (Student) (in this example) by clicking student.

Step 3: Fill in your information accordingly. For “E-mail”, use your University e-mail (not personal e-mail).

If you already have a promo code, enter it in the Promotion Code (optional) box.

If there is no code, it may be blank. Next, click on the “I’m not a robot” button and click Next.

Step 4: The next step is to consider the terms of the service agreement. Read through these, click the I Agree button and then click the Submit button.

At this point, AWS will send an e-mail to your school e-mail address with instructions to complete the rest of the registration process.

Step 5: The next step is to choose the AWS account type. If you already have an Amazon Web Services account, fill in your AWS account ID number.

If you don’t have an AWS account and you want to use an AWS Educate Starter Account, tick the appropriate box.

Step 6: Click Next to complete the subscription. After a while (between half an hour and a few days depending on the case), you’ll receive a letter of approval (Subject: Email Verification – AWS Educate Application)

This mail will contain detailed information about accessing the account. It also contains a link to reset the password, and after you set it, you’ll be taken to the AWS Educate Portal homepage (https://www.awseducate.com/).