To gain student access to cloud resources

IBM Watson

IBM Watson has student access via CAS Benelux and the IBM Academic Initiative. Go to the IBM Academic Initiative and register with your UTwente email to get lite access. The tutorials library and has many demos, use the filters on the side to narrow down the search. From cloud.ibm.com –> catalog (in the upper bar, Right side) you can add services to your workspace.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has student access standard with your UTwente email. From the Azura website you can log in and download software. https://docs.microsoft.com/ –> learn –> browse the full catalog, which will bring you to a search bar that lets you look for tutorials related to your task. Microsoft has a robust learning catalog for most of the products available.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

UT is an official AWS Educate Institute. Go to the AWS education site and click on Join AWS educate. This starts an application and may take some time so give yourself the time to get it all done (10 minutes is a good time frame, it is not as automated as some systems but will work if given a moment).The documentation starting point. Each Amazon product has its own page with its own resources, it is very beneficial to find the name for the product and then go to that product's page to find the information you need quickly.

Google Cloud Services

Google has free learning access via your @student.utwente.nl email. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=apps is a learning start point, as with most documentation repositories the search box can be very useful.

Other Ideas?

Open-source options. There are so many open-source options in the space of machine learning and artificial intelligence. If there is a system/language that you are family or comfortable with look if there is a solution in that ecosystem.

If you find something that you enjoy using and want to share it with the lab or your classmates, reach out to the lab.