Amazon.com Inc. is inviting students, educators and researchers to apply for grants that will give them free access to the company’s hosted computing services.The company expects to dole out up to $1 million per year worth of services, depending on the quality of the applications, it said.
Amazon has already made the offer to a few universities. Last year, 300 students in Harvard’s introductory computer science course used Amazon Web Services to learn firsthand about virtualization, scalability and multicore processing, according to David J. Malan, lecturer on computer science at Harvard University.
