AWS has selected the University of Notre Dame as one of the universities to get free access to Kiro, 1,000 credits per month for a full year, normally $240/year. This is the development agent that professional developers use to ship quality software. This is an exclusive opportunity for you to learn, build, and deploy your ideas.
Here's what you can do with it:
Kiro is the engineering agent that turns intent into verified, production-ready code, so you can ship the first time instead of cleaning up later. Whether you're building class projects, hackathon entries, or startup MVPs, Kiro turns your plain-English-language prompts into structured specs and working applications, so what you build is exactly what you intended.
Getting Started:
Starting on October 28th, 2026, all currently enrolled students will be able to gain access to Kiro for free with their student email address on the Kiro website: https://kiro.dev/students/. Please refer to the instructions for more information on signing up: https://kiro.dev/students/#instructions
Why Kiro
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Ship code you can trust the first time. Kiro turns your prompt into a spec, generates the code, and verifies it against your intent with property-based testing, so you get code that is correct by design, not just code that passed a quick test.
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Work your way. Frontier and open weight models run under one subscription across IDE, CLI, web, and mobile, alongside spec driven development, agent hooks, steering, and native support for open standards, so you shape Kiro to how you already work.
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Keep work moving when you step away. Kiro Crew is an open-source workspace that runs across sessions, remembers your project so you never re-explain it, picks up long running work on its own, and shows you every action it takes, so you come back to progress you can trust.
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See why developers are switching. Engineering managers at Brex and YC founders share what they built with Kiro here, and new capabilities ship every week.
Discord
Join the Kiro Student Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/kirodotdev. Chat with other student builders and moderators, share what you're working on, and get inspired.
Questions or Technical Support
Many students will verify instantly and be able to start using Kiro right away. For those who do run into an issue - and we know some will - we have a robust support process with trained internal and external support agents available to help:
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For Verification issues (e.g., flagged as ineligible, document upload not working, verification not completing) → Contact SheerID Support: https://support.sheerid.com/en-US/69a8b67049b85d7b53b4cadb/help-center/contact-form. Users can typically expect a first response from a Verification Support agent within 72 hours.
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For Kiro/platform issues (e.g., account access, credit usage questions) → Once you're signed in to http://app.kiro.dev/ scroll to the bottom to find "Billing (and Account) Support" URL: https://app.kiro.dev/account/usage?support_form The Kiro support team is actively monitoring and will do their best to respond within 24 hours.