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Orange County United Way uses Amazon Connect to optimize 2-1-1 community service

Serving hundreds of thousands of residents in all 34 cities of the region, Orange County United Way provides a wide range of vital community services throughout Orange County, California. After working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner SoftwareONE to migrate its crisis hotline to Amazon Connect in the AWS Cloud, United Way now boasts enhanced call routing, data collection, and supervisory tools. Read this post to learn more.

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Seattle University’s 8-year cloud journey: Key lessons, wins, and a new path forward

Founded in 1891, Seattle University is one of 28 Jesuit universities in the US. Located in the heart of Seattle, Washington, steps away from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) headquarters, Seattle University has long focused on innovation and excellence in education. That’s why, when a critical application was reaching end of life in 2016, the university saw an opportunity to completely transform its IT landscape. Working closely with AWS, Seattle University has now migrated more than 50 percent of its applications to the AWS Cloud and is actively migrating the remaining 50 percent.

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University of Michigan team uses AWS to accelerate simulations and win the American Solar Challenge

The University of Michigan Solar Car Team, renowned for their innovative designs and competitive edge, has once again pushed the boundaries of solar car technology. Their recent victory in the American Solar Challenge (ASC) can be attributed, in part, to their strategic use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for advanced simulations and design optimization. Read this post to learn more.

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Transforming financial markets: How FIA Tech built the Trade Data Network on AWS

This post discusses how FIA Tech, a leading technology provider for the exchange traded derivatives (ETD) industry, built the Trade Data Network (TDN) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). TDN is an industry initiative that provides a shared ledger of trading information to address the fragmentation and lack of transparency in ETD post-trade processing. The TDN initiative currently includes 17 banks/brokers and 40 investment managers and hedge funds with combined assets under management of more than $34 trillion.

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Transforming student communications: How Dallas College modernized its call center with AWS

For decades, Dallas College has been a beacon of affordable higher education in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Founded in 1965, this community college has welcomed more than 3 million students through its doors, empowering them to forge new careers, obtain vital training, and give back to their community. However, as enrollment swelled over the years, […]

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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

Seeking to make access to economic policy documents easier, the Mercatus Center — a university-based research center affiliated with George Mason University — created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution. Mercatus developed a platform, QuantGov, with assistance from Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, and AWS RDS. Accessible through an interactive AI assistant, the platform provides scalable, accurate, and no-cost access to a treasure trove of data, helping policymakers craft informed public policy that will positively impact people’s lives.

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Operationalizing SAS on AWS with the American College of Radiology

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is a nonprofit organization and world leader supporting the radiology community. Founded in 1923, ACR represents more than 41,000 diagnostic and interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists. In this post, we share how ACR implemented a Statistical Analysis System (SAS) solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accomplish their big data processing and analysis needs, resulting in better cost optimization, performance improvements, and improved scalability.

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Powering Singapore’s genomic research with AWS and Illumina

Precision medicine is a data-driven approach that considers individual variations in genetics to allow healthcare professionals to more accurately predict, prevent, diagnose, or treat different groups of people. As part of ongoing research to advance genomic research in Singapore, companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Illumina play a pivotal role in genome sequencing and analysis, and providing the tools and technology needed to analyse large-scale genomic datasets to help decode the risk factors for certain Asian-specific chronic diseases.

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How Amazon Bedrock helped the UK’s Governors for Schools generate meaningful insights

Governors for Schools is a charity operating across England and Wales to find and place volunteers on school and academy governing boards. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has worked with Governors for Schools by providing financial support, in addition to more than 100 AWS employees applying to take on school governance roles, providing much needed technical expertise in education. But in this post, we explain how Governors for Schools used Amazon Bedrock to process unstructured documents and generate meaningful insights into UK schools.

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INRIX collaborates with AWS for generative AI hackathon during its annual ‘Innovation Week’

Studies indicate hackathons improve individual and organizational productivity, strengthen company culture, increase collaboration, and accelerate learning. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a natural complement to these events, because the utility model reduces the cost of experimentation, accelerating progress. AWS frequently partners with customers on hackathons, and this post details a recent engagement with INRIX, Inc., which provides innovative services to organizations operating in the automotive and transportation sectors, offering real-time parking and traffic information and solutions for road safety.