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Abstract:- The article covers the creation and One of today’s information systems top positions are
implementation of the first-ever Georgian language held by cloud systems and their services. They have many
taught practical courses in modern cloud services - obvious advantages over the traditional approach to using
Cloud Services (AWS) and Additional Services in Cloud information technologies. Using cloud services is one of the
Services (AWS). The courses teach about the growing trends. “With the support of important industry stakeholders
trend of using cloud services worldwide and the rise of like Google, Amazon or Microsoft, cloud computing is
business needs in the specialists that can operate in this being widely adopted in different domains. Cloud services
field. such as Google Mail or Dropbox have become everyday
tools for millions of people. Many companies currently use
The topics covered are: what are some of the main cloud-based applications such as Salesforce3 and small and
services that cloud services offer and what are their big businesses are embracing virtual infrastructures offered,
advantages for the business - IAAS model, a variation of for instance, by Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft
different learning and certification pathways in studying Azure” [1]
cloud services, and which one of those was chosen in the
above-mentioned courses, working with AWS Educate “Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a
environment and the reasons behind choosing AWS springboard for digital innovation and organizational agility.
cloud services rather than its competitor Microsoft Higher education institutions (HEIs) are facing the problems
Azure and GCP services. with the increasing of participants, growing need of IT and
infrastructure, education quality of provision, and affordable
The article also emphasizes the challenges that education services” [2]
inspired creating Georgian language taught courses in
this field. The work details the steps that were As the use of cloud systems ultimately turns out to be
implemented to launch theoretical and laboratory much cheaper for the business than creating and supporting
courses. There's also information on the services that its own physical IT infrastructure, many advanced
have been included in the courses, Finally, the article organizations around the world or companies are slowly
gives an overview of the first cohort of students: the moving to the use of cloud services, in this regard, Georgia
quantity and attendance statistics with respective is no exception.
conclusions for the university and the business.
It should be noted that the process of transition to
Keywords:- Cloud Services; Cloud Education; AWS; Cloud cloud systems is gradual and is not instantaneous at this
Services; Course Development. stage. Besides, companies still store confidential data in
local data centers or on their physical servers, explaining by
I. INTRODUCTION "higher security reasons." However, more cloud services are
being used for other operations. “Cloud computing
Changes in technology are very frequent in the modern represents a major shift in providing information-technology
IT industry. The vast majority of the companies are trying to services and managing computing infrastructure. Unlike
follow the modern information technologies and are other innovations that appeared first in academic
implementing, testing, and using them in their business to laboratories, cloud computing emerged as a commercial
maintain the place in the highly concurrent market. At the response to competitive needs. Interest in cloud computing
same time, the introduction and usage of new technologies has grown significantly as users and organizations recognize
require appropriate knowledge and competencies. the benefits of computing-as-a-service” [3]
Companies are facing the problem of educating their Goldman Sachs forecasts that demand for cloud
personnel to give them new competencies. If the company services has been growing from year to year and will
will not follow this road and does not introduce the continue to grow steadily in the future:
knowledge possibilities to the personnel, it will lose the
market leadership positions and become the chaser to other
businesses.
According to [4] Cloud Computing tracking poll from Fig 2:- Available Cloud Services
the International Data Corporation indicates that USD 370
bn in Cloud Computing will be used by 2022, corresponding It should be noted that when talking about cloud
to an increase of 22.5% in terms of 5-year compound annual systems and services it is necessary to determine what type
growth of cloud models we are talking about. NIST designates 3
types of cloud model. [5]
Offers and benefits of cloud services Private Cloud - a kind of "own/private" cloud, built by
Today, the main business offer of cloud services for the company/organization independently and mostly
the client is "IAAS" service - "Infrastructure as a Service". closed to public access. Used for corporate purposes;
Which offers the customer/business to build the physical IT Public Cloud - Public cloud (eg AWS, Azure, GCP).
infrastructure of their company, organization completely on Created by global cloud providers worldwide and
the side of the virtual cloud service provider. accessible to anyone with Internet access. Used to solve
any type of task;
When using the IAAS service, the user/business does Hybrid Cloud - a combination of "own/personal" cloud
not care about the physical condition of the devices (eg (s) with a public cloud, a kind of hybrid cloud;
processors, RAM, etc.) and the connection between them (eg
network wiring, network devices), nor the building where The information in this article discusses the use of
the trademark/server is located. The cloud service provider public cloud, in particular, the Amazon Web Services
assumes responsibility for the maintenance of the cooling (AWS) cloud service platform.
systems and the provision of uninterrupted power supply.
Besides, Amazon's choice to create the cloud course Fig 3:- AWS certification (source:
necessitated the provision of a free learning-experimental https://aws.amazon.com/certification)
environment for students and lecturers, as the theoretical
material of the course was mastered and put into practice. During the creation of the course syllables, the high
Consider the fact that students do not have a large financial reputation and value of the AWS Certification were taken
resource, and the use of cloud services requires some into account, so the courses would allow students to apply
financial outlay. for AWS official certification exams by spending few
additional independent learning hours.
Importantly, Amazon offers AWS Educate learning
environments to university lecturers and students, where Task was defined so the students would gain about
they are given a certain amount of credit for using the 70% of the knowledge that is needed to pass the exam. The
services (in the form of an allocated amount) to master this remaining 30% is knowledge that is frequently changed and
or that study material in practice. It is noteworthy that updated and is related to new cloud services introduced by
lecturers will be given renewable credits - on request each the service provider that need permanent independent
semester. involvement of the student with the system. These topics
could not be included as a part of an understandable concept
Every education institution is eligible to apply for of fundamental cloud services in base courses.
AWS Educate, which is used by more than 200 counties and
territories and 2400 institutions. (Source: AWS Educate Two Georgian language-based course syllables were
2020). created named as: Cloud systems (AWS) and Cloud
systems additional service (AWS). Courses were integrated
University lecturers and students at the university into the existing program of Information technologies at one
where the course was introduced had been enrolled in the of the Georgian universities. Courses were offered as
above-mentioned program. Corresponding accounts were electives to the II- and III-year students. Two prerequisites
created and validated for the lecturers, who can themselves were defined for the intro course of Cloud Systems (AWS)
create a classroom, request educational credits for a class, as “Introduction to the Computer networks” and “Linux
and invite students. operating system”.
AWS Pathways AWS offers more than a thousand services and
AWS Has different professional directions and its microservices, while the semester at the university allocates
certification program: 30 contact hours to the course. So, the 30 hours course was
created based on core services that are necessary for students
Main modules to work with cloud services.
Cloud Practitioner – an introduction level to cloud
systems Before starting a course, a lecturer is applying for
Solutions Architect (Associate, Professional) AWS Educate classroom and is choosing three services from
SysOps Administrator, Developer, DevOps engineer the course services template. (fig. 4)
Additional modules
Advanced Networking
Security
Machine Learning
Alexa Skill Builder
Data Analytics
The course has been run based on the methodology Also, the knowledge gained in the courses of
suggested by [21] where Current trends, factors were "Computer Architecture", "Linux" and "Windows Server"
identified for these subjects and a stereotype of their future operating systems was used while working with the "AWS
identification was formed. Relevant objectives were set for EC2" (virtual server management) service.
the identified factors, with a strict definition of their
priorities. The next step is to execute the objectives with And the knowledge gained in the Python programming
appropriate priority by involving a specific structural unit or courses helped the students to work with the AWS Lambda
units. Finally, the ongoing learning process was monitored (server technology, coding) service, where they integrated
with feedback from previous semesters, allowing us to these different areas and fully automated them.
improve it permanently.
On the other hand, the companies that the university
At the same time, each service was given a certain cooperates with to provide students with internships and
number of lectures, where theoretical material was delivered employment clearly express satisfaction as they hire staff
from the 2 hours allocated for the lecture to the first hour with knowledge of modern topics, which helps their
and, most importantly, understanding - with appropriate business significantly. The companies also expressed a
infrastructure planning/delineation, and the second lecture desire to work more closely with the university, not only in
hour was fully devoted to practical implementation of the the field of "cloud systems solution architect", but also in
theoretical material in AWS Educate environment. terms of training DevOps engineers that resulted in the
development of a new master’s program in information
Topics for midterm and final exams were also systems – DevOps.
developed for both courses. Intermediate and exam issues
included topics quite close to the actual AWS SAA REFERENCES
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