Amazon Web Services announced they are now offering grants for educational institutions.
They have broken up their grants into 3 sections: researchers, educators, students. They also mentioned that they are working with IT companies to provide services for IT Professionals on campus (including a company that uses AWS for email archiving).
Of course Amazon mentioned some big institutions using AWS in their classrooms (including UMD and Harvard), but here at Wheaton College Professor Tom Armstrong is using AWS for a distributed computing assignment.