With an aim to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in India, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have unveiled new initiatives. A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed between NITI Aayog and Amazon Internet Services (AISPL), which undertakes the resale and marketing of AWS Cloud services in India.
As per the SoI, AIM will leverage AWS Educate, Amazon’s global program that provides resources for students and educators to accelerate cloud-related learning. This program will introduce the fundamentals of cloud computing such as cloud storage, virtual compute power, web hosting, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and virtual reality (VR), to students at more than 7000 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) in India.
AWS will also conduct Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) for the personnel in-charge at the ATLs, and provide resources and tools at each ATL to expedite student learning, and enable them to create and build solutions on the cloud.