CMSC389L

Special Topics in Computer Science; Practical Cloud Computing with AWS

Students are provided with a practical and project- oriented introduction to cloud computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS). They will learn how to build applications using a variety of AWS services, including S3, EC2, Lambda, and Beanstalk. Culminating with a final resume-worthy project that will be built, deployed, and demoed to the class.

Sister Courses: CMSC389A, CMSC389B, CMSC389C, CMSC389E, CMSC389F, CMSC389G, CMSC389I, CMSC389J, CMSC389K, CMSC389M, CMSC389N, CMSC389O, CMSC389P, CMSC389Q, CMSC389R, CMSC389T, CMSC389U, CMSC389V, CMSC389W, CMSC389X, CMSC389Y, CMSC389Z

Fall 2025

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.23 between 58 students*

CMSC389L Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065707580% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 3.45%
A: 43.1%
A+: 31.03%
B-: 1.72%
D: 8.62%
W: 12.07%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.