A Six Day Hands On Workshop

On
“AWS cloud computing - solution architect workshop” at GIST
A Six day workshop on Amazon Web Services was organized by the department of ECE, from 22 nd
December 2021 to 23rd January 2022 (Three Weeks one week for each section) in collaboration
with APSSDC. The experts from APSSDC explained various concepts of Amazon Web Services
related aspects right from the fundamentals for III year B.Tech ECE students.
The workshop started with a presentation on introduction to Amazon Alexa and origin of
Amazon Web Services. The presentation clearly explained the origin of AWS and services are
provided by the Amazon Web Services. The entire workshop includes concepts of Cloud computing,
EC2 services in AWS, Auto Scaling, Simple Storage ServicesS3, Creation of Window Server, Python
Programming, Lambda services in AWS, Introduction to Alexa and programming in Amazon
Developer Account and Equal emphasis was given to all the concepts in the workshop.
The total 179 students got a chance to learn in depth about Python programming, Alexa
introduction and programming in Amazon developer Account. Meanwhile the queries raised by the
students were also answered in an efficient way in all the sessions by the resource persons.
The Principal of GIST, Prof. Dr. G.Subba Rao, in the inaugural address also mentioned the
demand of Amazon Web Services and the job opportunities. Mr.P.Raghava Reddy, Head of the
department of ECE, Dr.P.Chakrapani HOD, IICC, Mr.U.Penchalaiah, Asst. Professor and Mr.K.Chandra
Sekher, Asst.Prof of ECE also took part in the workshop actively.