Author: Jan Day

For the more than 2,800 administrators across approximately 1,200 participating institutions in the US, that means access to near daily provided to them through Amazon Quick Sight on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by the eduroam team at Internet2. However, this wasn’t always the case. This post walks through how the eduroam team modernized their data reporting pipeline, the architecture behind it, and the impact it’s had on institutional engagement.

Within a decade of moving to the cloud, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was managing 260 accounts—160 of them on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—at an annual spend of $4 million. As part of what they called a “cloudification initiative,” there had been a major push in the early days to capitalize on opportunities to […]

How long would it take to update the Python runtime versions across 500 AWS Lambda functions running across an organization’s cloud environment? For the two-person cloud team at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), it used to take two months to inventory, scan, remediate, test, validate, and push to production. Today, it takes just half a day […]

The Center for Digital Government and the Center for Digital Education (CDG/CDE) and AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector. Curated by the CDG/CDE, this annual awards program recognizes visionary public and private sector organizations across state and local government (SLG), K–12, and higher education that are using the power of cloud computing to deliver better, faster, and more inclusive services.

Saint Louis University’s journey from supporting a single researcher to enabling a university-wide cloud-powered research ecosystem didn’t happen overnight. In this blog, we highlight seven key strategies that helped drive this transformation.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to announce the 2024 cohort of AWS Champions, and the expansion of the program to AWS education and government technology (EdTech, GovTech) partners. The AWS Champions program recognizes individuals and organizations pioneering meaningful, cloud-powered change to improve outcomes, build resilience, and accelerate progress in service of their respective missions, constituents, and communities.

To celebrate the leaders and organizations that are propelling the academic landscape forward, AWS announced the 2023 cohort of Education Champions at IMAGINE: Education, State and Local Leaders 2023 Conference. The 2023 AWS Education Champions are pioneers that demonstrate meaningful digital transformation at their education institution to improve student outcomes, build institutional resiliency, accelerate research that can lead to life-changing discoveries, and more – all using the AWS Cloud.

Higher education leaders agree the coronavirus pandemic forced many institutions to adapt and innovate. Which strategies worked? Which tactics didn’t? What role did cloud technology play? The AWS education team recently convened a small group of university leaders for a roundtable discussion to learn about how higher education institutions innovated to support learning, teaching, health and administrative processes, campus culture, and physical infrastructure.