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09/14/22: Successful meeting with Everett. Dennis and Donal are instructor candidates in UMD AWS Academy. Dennis will pursue training and revisit syllabus draft in a few weeks. Happy to brief anyone on where we intend to go with this.

9/19/22: Dennis completed initial online training and can create courses in AWS Learner Lab (open ended sandbox, $100 per student); AWS Academy Cloud Foundations, AWS Academy Introduction to Cloud 1 and 2, and AWS Academy Data Center Technician, all of which have various relevance to the end of 346 and the various visions for 347. Next step is to complete some of these courses; understand the commitments implied by teaching them; and select what experiences meet our learning outcomes.

Brief

Investigate creation of a follow-on course to 346 to give cloud computing for beginners more adequate coverage than is possible in 346. Separately but perhaps synergistically, ESG students have requested coursework in Cloud Computing.

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• After successfully completing this course you will be able to:

• Articulate and apply the major benefits of cloud computing

• Build simple models of physical and virtual cloud computing infrastructure

• Differentiate amongst compute, storage, and network functions in the cloud

• Design and critically evaluate existing designs for cloud computing users from diverse backgrounds with varying needs, applying anti-racist perspectives to ensure usability needs are met

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