AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Kai Xu
Kai is a senior solutions architect at AWS, supporting higher education and academic medical centers. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare and higher education, Kai specializes in secure access management, enterprise architecture, and cloud solutions for research and education. When not designing efficient AWS solutions, Kai enjoys reading, watching soccer, and spending time with family.
A faster, more resilient digital repository: Migrating DSpace to AWS
Learn more about the Digital Research and Curation Center (DRCC), the group within the Sheridan Libraries that builds and manages digital infrastructure for open scholarship, migrated DSpace to the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Streamline incident response and collaboration with Amazon Q Developer in chat applications
Organizations are modernizing their incident response by using AWS capabilities alongside chat-based collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. This shift helps streamline monitoring, enabling centralized awareness, real-time collaboration, and faster threat detection and mitigation. In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Q Developer in chat applications transforms incident response and team coordination, with practical examples using Slack integration.
Customizing isolated JupyterLab environments in Amazon SageMaker Studio
This post demonstrates how to enhance security and compliance in an isolated SageMaker JupyterLab environment by implementing two key customizations: configuring download restrictions and implementing secure Python package installation through AWS CodeArtifact.
Reduce IT costs by implementing automatic shutdown for Amazon EC2 instances
To remain viable and continue to fulfill their mission, educational institutions are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT costs while maintaining high-quality services. One often overlooked area for potential savings is the management of cloud resources, particularly Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Many universities and colleges find themselves facing unexpected costs when EC2 instances are left running during off-peak hours or periods of inactivity. In this post, we explore how higher education customers can implement automatic shutdown mechanisms for EC2 instances, significantly reducing cloud expenses.