AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Greg Grieff
Greg Grieff is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helps government agencies and universities design cloud architectures that support mission-critical applications and compute-intensive research workloads. With more than 30 years of experience in IT — spanning infrastructure management, operations, and agile development leadership — Greg has been building solutions on AWS since 2010. Outside of work, he is an assistant scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, teaching skills, ethics, and leadership to youth.
Reimagining university libraries with AWS: University of Maryland’s six-month cloud migration
The University of Maryland Libraries serves 41,000 students across six physical libraries on its College Park campus. Like many academic institutions, the libraries relied on aging on-premises infrastructure to support their digital services and operations. When the libraries’ IT team faced deteriorating hardware, rising licensing costs, and personnel constraints that threatened operations, they made a strategic decision: retire their data center entirely and transform their infrastructure with AWS.
The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS
Seeking to make access to economic policy documents easier, the Mercatus Center — a university-based research center affiliated with George Mason University — created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution. Mercatus developed a platform, QuantGov, with assistance from Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, and AWS RDS. Accessible through an interactive AI assistant, the platform provides scalable, accurate, and no-cost access to a treasure trove of data, helping policymakers craft informed public policy that will positively impact people’s lives.