AWS Public Sector Blog
Tag: Auto Scaling
Meeting the challenges of South African higher education on AWS
Many South African institutions of higher learning are suffering from underfunding, which affects their ability to remediate these issues. Students in South Africa face numerous challenges as well. Statistics from StatsSA report a 45.5 percent unemployment rate among young individuals (aged 15–34 years). And limited educational opportunities and economic disadvantages are the primary factors driving elevated rates of unemployment. This post highlights the impact that reliable and efficient education systems can have on reducing the challenges facing higher education in South Africa.
Concerts for Carers uses AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora to deliver ticketing and events platform at any scale
In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, while frontline workers were under immense pressure, three experienced live event professionals wanted to thank all of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) workers and paid care workers. They combined their extensive experience and knowledge to launch the not-for-profit charity Concerts for Carers, whose mission is to promote the mental health and well-being of all NHS workers and paid caregivers and to provide them with free tickets to live events in the UK as an ongoing gesture of thanks. This post highlights how they’ve used Amazon Web Services to meet their mission.
How to put a supercomputer in the hands of every scientist
The AWS Cloud gives you access to virtually unlimited infrastructure suitable for high performance computing (HPC) workloads. With HPC, you can remove long queues and waiting times so you don’t have to choose availability over performance. In this technical guide, learn how to use AWS ParallelCluster to set up and manage an HPC cluster in a flexible, elastic, and repeatable way.
Five ways nonprofits can reduce the burden associated with fundraising activities
Nonprofits around the world should be able to concentrate on mission-critical activities such as fundraising, instead of focusing on managing their technology infrastructure. Without the burden of worrying about IT, nonprofits can focus on telling their unique stories to drive donations and engagement. Here are five ways that nonprofits can use AWS to accelerate their fundraising.