Open learner-long-life opened 7 months ago
For the which provider issue:
There is this option: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/. I tried to sign up but couldn't create an account (sent them a help ticket)
IBM Cloud Academic Initiative: IBM offers free access to IBM Cloud resources for faculty, students, and researchers through the IBM Cloud Academic Initiative. This program provides hands-on experience with IBM Cloud services.
Oracle Academy: Oracle Academy provides free cloud credits for educators and students to access Oracle Cloud resources. This program aims to support teaching and learning with Oracle Cloud technologies.
The other providers are similar to Google.
Thanks for these links.
For the which provider issue:
- There is this option: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/. I tried to sign up but couldn't create an account (sent them a help ticket)
AWS Educate appears to only offer sandbox credits. It may be worth time for TAs to sign up and experiment, but I suspect these are not publicly accessible machines with IPv4's that anyone can type into their browser, outside of the AWS private network.
I'll look into the IBM and Oracle clouds.
The planned setup for the Web Engineering course asks students to start a free tier EC2 instance on AWS.
This can be free, even though billing info is requested. For new accounts, that students were asked to create just for this class, this covers their instance for the first 12 months afterwards, 750 hours for a t2.micro instance per month (there are 720 hours in a month).
However, the elastic IP address incurs charges after the first hour, which is new and that I wasn't aware of until today. I've asked students to disssociate their elastic IP addresses so far.
We need a new solution that lets students host web applications and services at a fixed hostname for demos, and to demonstrate infrastructure knowledge. I'm open to suggestions and discussions, and if someone has spare cycles, some implementation help is appreciated @pswish @kvothethm @WinstonShine @aquinnallen and anyone else reading. Some off-roading 4x4 infra will be involved.
Possible Workarounds
mail.arcology.builders
DNS server supports a REST interfaceDynamic DNS
Run a cron job, or on-startup register the new IP address with this
curl
Google Cloud Credits