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Microsoft DreamSpark Program – access Microsoft Software and Development Tools at no cost.  You get

• Free Windows Store Developer Account
• Free Microsoft Azure subscription
• Hundreds of Microsoft Dev Tools e.g. Visual Studio and SQL Server for Free

Amazon AWS Educate – AWS Educate is Amazon’s global, grants-based initiative that gives students and educators hands-on experience with AWS technology, cloud training resources, course content, and collaboration forums, at no cost.

IBM Academic Initiative – See how your students can build apps quickly with hot technologies, including Internet of Things, Watson, Spark, Big Data, and mobile, using the open-source Platform as a Service: IBM Bluemix. It’s is an ideal platform for student projects, hackathons, case competitions, and programming contests.  Find out how faculty and students can use IBM Bluemix for 6 to 12 months at no-charge through an exclusive Academic Initiative for Cloud offer.

• IBM also offers DB2 Academic Associate Program exclusively for the university community.

Apple iOS Developer University Program – The iOS Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce iOS development into their curriculum.  Coming this fall with Xcode 7, any teacher and student can get access to the tools and resources needed to develop and install apps on Apple devices.

GitHub Education – offers Student Developer Pack including

• GitHub micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you’re a student – GitHub provides powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
• Bitnami Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year – Bitnami allows you to install cloud applications in a single click
• $25 HackHands credits for students – HackHands provides live programming help available 24/7
• Free access to the Crowdflower platform – Crowdflower is a crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform.
• $100 in DigitalOcean platform credit for new users – DigitalOcean is a simple cloud hosting, built for developers.