AWS Academic Program

Detail:
The Amazon Web Services in Education program is pleased to invite you to attend a seminar on AWS and academic research and teaching in the cloud. Since its launch in April of 2009, the AWS in Education program has provided grants in the form of free usage credits on AWS to over 200 universities in 20 countries.

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure for deploying web-scale solutions, with minimal support and administration costs, and more flexibility than the traditional data center. It’s a compelling platform for academic research as demonstrated by the diverse research use cases we have provided grants to: http://aws.amazon.com/education/aws-in-education-research-grants/

The inherent flexibility of the AWS cloud enables academic researchers and teaching faculty to use it for research and for teaching of cloud computing/distributed computing concepts. In this session, Simone Brunozzi will provide a technical overview of AWS and explore interesting use cases relevant to academic researchers and the Singapore IHL community.

Biodata:
Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon.com in march 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006.

Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.