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Author: Brian McCarthy
Brian is a senior solutions architect at AWS, specializing in research computing and AI/ML. He partners with institutions to design cloud architectures for HPC, machine learning, and enterprise workloads. McCarthy has published technical content and contributed to product development through customer insights. When not architecting solutions, you'll find him learning languages or hanging out with animals.
Six best practices for building resilient higher-education applications on AWS
Over the past five years, a world-renowned higher education institution has partnered with AWS and AWS Partner EPI-USE to modernize its most critical applications. The result: a serverless, multi-Region, and secure architecture built with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that transforms how the institution delivers technology services. This modernization effort revealed six essential best practices that any higher education CIO, CTO, or enterprise architect can implement to strengthen institutional resilience and future-proof their technology infrastructure.