Postgraduate Certificate Program in Cloud Computing
with Manipal Academy of Higher Education

The 6 months Post Graduate Certificate Program in Cloud Computing is conferred by Manipal Academy of Higher Education – which is a deemed university, which has the authority to start such programs under its purview. So we need not require a separate approval/recognition. Moreover, the curriculum is designed collaboratively with AWS Educate which gives you an industry recognition.

This e-learning cloud computing training program will have a unique blend of online live sessions with experts, guided online training, hands-on practices, and case studies with real-world scenarios. So there will be web-based interaction with our faculty during the webinars, followed by cloud computing video lectures, assignments and submission.

Yes, you are eligible to enroll in the program.

No. As per University norms, minimum 50% in graduation is required to apply for this online cloud computing course.

Yes, but you should have few basic skills of IT specifically on Operating Systems and Networking.

No. We provide placement assistance but there will be no guarantee.

No. There is no application fee applicable in this program.

No, we do not offer any discount. 3% fee waiver on program fee is given on lump sum payments.

We do have installment facility in the program. Please reach out to your counselor for further detail.

Yes, refund of Program fees is available up to 15 calendar days from the date of commencement of the program, after deducting some processing fees. In the case of installment payment, only 1st inst. is refunded. No refund request will be processed for further installments. Please go through our refund policy on our website, for more details.

Yes, if you wish to pay the program fees as a lump sum, you’ll get a 3% fee waiver on program fee. In case of withdrawal of admission, refund of Program fees is available only up to 15 calendar days from the date of commencement of the program, after deducting some processing fees.

The program fee includes the cost of tuition, online courseware, respective cloud labs, final assessment and the program certifications. The cloud computing training courseware includes official courseware from AWS Educate.

We recommend a personal computer or laptop with 1.3 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB Free HDD Space and the latest browser installed. The device should also have a good uninterrupted Internet connection of minimum 2 Mbps.

The webinar schedule will be released to you well in advance before the batch starts. However, it will be scheduled for late evening on weekdays and afternoon on weekends. Any change will be notified to you in advance.

The cloud computing certification program is spread over 6 months – with a spread of 5 subjects. The first 4 subjects will strengthen your Cloud Foundation skills followed by the Specialization of AWS. The course will be powered by AWS Educate certification. AWS specialization will be the 5th Subject.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education provides the overall PG Certificate in Cloud Computing which is why the certificate has a University Recognition.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education and AWS Educate provides a joint certification for the AWS Specialization.

The student will receive hands-on cloud lab from AWS Educate to practice on the hands-on as specified in the Lab Guide. This will ensure that you work in a live environment and get the actual hands-on experience. Guided Lab exercises are provided in the course.

Absolutely, there are project works involved. Based on the synergy of the batch group or individual projects will be declared by the Faculty who will drive the webinar batch.

The AWS Educate program (“AWS Educate”) is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to greatly accelerate Cloud-related learning endeavors and to help power the workforce of tomorrow. With the increasing demand for cloud-skilled employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. The program offers a robust set of free tools, resources and AWS Promotional Credits for students and educators to skill upon the cloud and accelerate cloud-related learning endeavors.

For further details – www.awseducate.com

There are several benefits to students, after they are approved, they are provisioned AWS Promotional Credits for free access to AWS tools and services. They receive specialized content & hands-on activities designed to get students comfortable with the basics of cloud computing and other in demand skills such as Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, software development and nine additional Cloud Career Pathways, each with 30+ hours of learning content, along with the ability to earn AWS badges for different competencies such as IoT, Alexa, and gaming. AWS Educate starter accounts allow students to enroll without a credit card and still use AWS Services. In addition, there is the AWS Educate Job Board with cloud-related jobs from top tech partner companies and Amazon.

Yes, They are in fact the right candidates for cloud technology. IT Giants are looking for people who can work in traditional IT technologies but are also comfortable with working on cloud services which are available in the market today. By using cloud, they can easily apply existing skill sets to test or develop a better cloud based applications. 

An early entrant will reap the benefits of growing market, we all can see today, techies aged 27 to 32 are sitting at Top Management Levels, that is all because of the sudden growth in demand pertaining to that technology. Growth in Cloud would be very similar, anybody who learns and brings it to practise will reap the benefits and grow. As you would be regarded on your skillset and talent to manage a new technology, so you would be the best choice for innovations from employers point of view. We all can see companies asking fresh engineers to be able to work on Cloud , Devops, Data Science, Machine Learning , Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, as companies need people who can give innovative solutions and have modern skillsets. Anybody who needs or wants to work on innovation has to work in Cloud to utilize best data sources and develop a robust application.

There are no special skill sets but an IT Engineer today should by default know how to work on cloud platforms . My experience says that person who suggests solution based on cloud and saves dollars , reduce risk , is able to code, are in huge demand in the IT industry today. For some time, Cloud architect will remain at the top of all the positions as companies are building themselves in cloud technology to be at a respectable position in the market and going forward the administrators and managers will be in huge demand on cloud based projects / program.  

(Coder/Cloud based Coder + Cloud Based Solutions + Cloud tools)

There are different areas where innovation is taking place and all IT giants are in race to be on the top. As I see and observe, AI/Big data/ Hadoop/ML /Deep Learning/Computer Vision and IOT are future of IT , but if you observe closely all this is happening because of privileges provided by Cloud platforms and that’s why it becomes easy for companies in the IT and other industry to hire someone who knows how to work on different cloud platform and use tools to analyse that data and provide a suitable/Innovative solution to the management/ Client. In fact, this is one of the top skill sets industry is looking forward . Demand supply gap is very high here . AWS and GCP are spending large amounts to come with services which cater this data analysis requirement.

Today, IT industry is focusing on better coding in software applications. Cloud gives you that provision / platform / time to focus on good quality of coding and improve overall quality of applications . Software engineers are in huge demand by companies, working or planning to work on cloud as the whole focus is to develop cloud based solutions. You can very easily observe how Indian Market is moving on cloud , every bank has developed application and they don’t want you to come to the branch. Changes are taking place, with all the startups and applications are based on cloud platforms now.