Category: Best Practices

Learn how the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Innovation Center has helped dozens of organizations develop evaluation strategies that bridge this “articulation gap.”

Federal funding cuts and fierce competition are forcing US researchers to look beyond their usual grant sources. To address this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) worked with a UNC researcher to develop the Grant Research Opportunity Wizard (GROW).

In this series of blog posts, we will examine digital sovereignty and provide practical steps you can apply to your AWS workloads and environments to address the requirements of your business. This post is the first in the series and introduces the topic, exploring the concepts and explaining how you can practically implement them.

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.

In this post, we explore how the intuitive interface, collaborative features, and diverse learning modalities of PartyRock make it an ideal tool for educators who want to support AI literacy goals while accommodating different learning styles and technical backgrounds.

In this blog post, you will learn how to deploy and run Moodle using serverless technology on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This post provides a five-step actionable approach that government agencies can follow to create an effective Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

This post examines real-world examples of successful national AI programs, explores the hidden economics that make AWS Cloud infrastructure essential, and discusses why cultural sovereignty matters as much as technical capability. Whether you’re planning a national AI strategy or evaluating infrastructure options, these lessons from global leaders will help you avoid common pitfalls and focus resources where they matter most.

Read this post to learn about AWS Wickr, a messaging and collaboration service that protects messaging, calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with 256-bit end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Wickr combines advanced security for sensitive communications, administrative controls for user and policy management, and data retention for auditing and regulatory needs.

In this era of rapid technology adoption, higher education institutions face a considerable challenge. They must adopt AI to drive value for their own organization, while also fulfilling their core mission—preparing students for an AI-integrated workforce. Read this post to learn more.