Cloud Labs for Faculty — AWS and Azure
Why colleges run this
Cloud labs fail for two reasons: nobody owns the account, and nobody caps the spend. Both are solvable in three days.
Course outcomes
CO1
Configure cloud accounts and roles so students hold least-privilege access
K3CO2
Provision a complete lab environment from a reusable template
K3CO3
Apply budgets, quotas and alerts that cap departmental spend
K3CO4
Diagnose the common failures students meet in a cloud lab
K4CO5
Design a semester lab schedule that fits a stated budget
K6Modules tap a module for its theory & lab
Hours shown are the recommended 3-day format — module time scales to the duration you pick.
01Accounts, identity and guardrails6 h
Theory
Organisations, roles, least privilege, student accounts
Lab
Build a locked-down lab account
Output
Lab account with policies applied
02The lab stack6 h
Theory
Compute, storage, networking and databases as students will meet them
Lab
Provision and tear down a full lab environment
Output
Reusable lab template
03Cost control and operations6 h
Theory
Budgets, alerts, scheduled shutdown, quotas
Lab
Set budgets and trigger an alert deliberately
Output
Budget and alert configuration
Every participant receives
Certificate of completion Course material LMS access Interview question bank Mock interview & viva practice