AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Mike Brugnoni
Mike is a senior solutions architect at AWS, working with public sector and higher education customers to modernize their environments and accelerate their move to the cloud. He enjoys partnering with greenfield organizations to design scalable, future-ready architectures and is especially passionate about exploring how AI can transform the way we build and innovate.
Transforming classroom conversations: Cornell University’s AI-powered Socratic Chat on AWS
Working with AWS, Cornell University built Socratic Chat, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that delivers personalized Socratic teaching at scale. By fall 2024, over 500 students across multiple courses were using the tool, spending 10-15 minutes per assignment, working through progressively harder questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy—freeing Ault and other professors to focus on in-depth instruction. Read this post to learn more.
Generating and editing AI images using Amazon Lightsail for Research
In this post, we show how Amazon Lightsail for Research can help you successfully deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) image generation model using open source software. We walk through deploying a Lightsail for Research GPU instance using a simplified console experience. We cover how to set up cost control rules in order to prevent or manage unnecessary costs. And we show how you can open network ports on your Lightsail for Research instance to allow others to access the software you are running.