AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Education
AWS Public Sector Month in Review – October
The AWS Public Sector Month in Review below features the content published for the education, government, and nonprofit communities in October. Let’s take a look at what happened in October: All – Government, Education, & Nonprofits Whiteboard with an SA: AWS Direct Connect Ohio Region Launch Accelerating Sustainability, Economy, and Citizen Services Busting the […]
Campus on the Cloud: Join us at EDUCAUSE
The AWS Cloud impacts all corners of your campus and beyond. The cloud sparks education innovation by helping to reduce costs, improve service delivery, and increase student access to their education. Take a tour of how education uses AWS campus-wide, from classrooms to dorm rooms and beyond. With so many connected devices around the world, […]
Carnegie Mellon Gives Students Hands-On Cloud Experience with AWS Educate
Carnegie Mellon University’s online cloud computing course made its debut on the list of offered courses in the spring of 2013. That first semester, 55 students enrolled in the course, then 155 students the following year, 250 students in 2015, and now, 200-300 students from Carnegie Mellon’s global campuses enroll in the course every semester. […]
AWS Educate Gives Students Access to Cloud Career Pathways, AWS Badges, and the AWS Educate Job Board
AWS is announcing the launch of several new student-focused features in our AWS Educate program. AWS Educate provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning. As part of the launch, AWS Educate is now offering Cloud Career Pathways that align curriculum directly to specific careers like software developer and cloud architect. […]
Ohio Region Launch Accelerating Sustainability, Economy, and Citizen Services
AWS announced the launch of a new region in Ohio, bringing technology opportunities, sustainability efforts, and a new way to meet compliance and data residency requirements to public sector customers. At AWS, our customers’ requirements and feedback help us make key decisions when building new regions. The launch of a region in Ohio will allow […]
Whiteboard with an SA: AWS Direct Connect
In this brief whiteboarding video, learn how to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS with AWS Direct Connect. Todd Gagorik, AWS Solutions Architect, shows you how you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment with AWS Direct Connect. In many cases, this can reduce your […]
University of Muenster creates openSenseMap to engage with citizens and students
From the home to the classroom, University of Muenster works to engage citizens and students with scientific learning. As part of this effort, the university recently created the openSenseMap, an easy-to-use, open application platform built for the publishing of open sensor data.
An Eye on Science: How Stanford Students Turned Classwork into Their Life’s Work
Imagine visiting your doctor only to discover that you are losing your vision. That’s the reality for millions of people with diabetes every year around the world. Diabetic retinopathy causes progressive damage to the retina and is one of the leading causes of blindness. It afflicts more than 100 million people. Early intervention helps in […]
AWS Public Sector Month in Review – September
Check out the AWS Public Sector Month in Review featuring the content published for the education, government, and nonprofit communities in September. Let’s take a look at what happened this past month: All – Government, Education, & Nonprofits Whiteboard with an SA: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Whiteboard with an SA: AWS Code Deployment Whiteboard with […]
Whiteboard with an SA: Tags
What are tags and what can you do with them? Tags help you manage your instances, images, and other Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resources. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways – for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. In this whiteboarding video, Jerry Rhoads, AWS Solutions Architects, walks […]
