AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Education

Building AI agents for domain-specific classification at scale

This post shows how public sector and enterprise teams can build an agentic AI-powered classification system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using the Strands Agents SDK, Amazon Bedrock, and serverless services. You will learn the architecture, the agent workflow, and how to implement this system using the Strands Agents SDK.

Accelerate your organization's compliance journey with a Secure Research Environment on AWS

Accelerate your organization’s compliance journey with a Secure Research Environment on AWS

Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Secure Research Environment (SRE) to help institutions remain agile and competitive while supporting alignment with evolving security and compliance standards.

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Universities across the UK conduct tens of thousands of online interviews and exams each year. During a single admissions intake, over 20,000 video interviews were recorded for international applicants, with 1.3% of sessions showing confirmed fraud, including 0.15% involving deepfakes. A survey by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) found that 2% of students […]

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Six best practices for building resilient higher-education applications on AWS

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.

Old Dominion University helps to modernize quantum chemistry software for 140,000 researchers with AWS

Old Dominion University (ODU), in collaboration with Iowa State University, the longtime home of GAMESS development, and with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), built CPU- and GPU-optimized GAMESS containers and began deploying them on AWS High-Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their work offers a practical roadmap for other institutions looking to bring legacy HPC applications into a modern, cloud-native environment.

How South Carolina DSS modernized 19 contact centers to improve benefits delivery with Amazon Connect

Social services agencies serve some of society’s most vulnerable members. Service interruptions don’t just create inconvenience—they can delay essential support. The South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) faced exactly this challenge. Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), SCDSS modernized 19 contact centers and two interactive voice response (IVR) systems, transforming how the agency connects with the one in six South Carolinians it serves.

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Democratizing climate data science: How Columbia University’s LEAP center built AutoClimDS on AWS

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.