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The University of Maryland Libraries serves 41,000 students across six physical libraries on its College Park campus. Like many academic institutions, the libraries relied on aging on-premises infrastructure to support their digital services and operations. When the libraries’ IT team faced deteriorating hardware, rising licensing costs, and personnel constraints that threatened operations, they made a strategic decision: retire their data center entirely and transform their infrastructure with AWS.

Libraries are a treasure trove of knowledge, but finding what you need—especially in vast digital collections like the ones housed at Northwestern University Libraries (NUL)—isn’t always straightforward. That’s why the university chose AWS to help them build a new, multilingual, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered search tool—one that makes its expansive collections more accessible, intuitive, and inclusive for all.

Read this post to learn about Pi Jam Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to bringing creative computing and digital skills to underserved students using AWS.

In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.

This blog explores how the University of Sheffield uses AWS Partner RONIN Core and RONIN Isolate solutions to deliver a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) built on AWS infrastructure, enabling secure research and collaboration with sensitive data through the university’s Data Connect service. Secure and compliant infrastructure is essential for sensitive research. Many research institutions use a research Landing Zone to build Secure Research Environments (SRE) that provide the foundational compliance infrastructure—meeting standards like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CMMC—upon which TREs like RONIN can build secure research workflows.

To address the global challenge of managing street animal populations, Humane World for Animals has developed Humane World Apps, a comprehensive global data management tool designed to improve dog and cat welfare programs by managing spay and neuter, mass vaccination, and access to care operations. With support from the AWS Imagine Grant—a public grant program that provides both cash and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credit funding to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions—Humane World Apps is transforming how large-scale animal welfare programs operate worldwide.

Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The IMF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. In September 2024, the IMF launched Myelo—an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant built using AWS and Max.AI, developed by ZS Associates. This blog post highlights Myelo’s capabilities to provide myeloma patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals a trustworthy, round-the-clock source of information that is accessible from anywhere in the world, grounded in empathy, and can communicate in multiple languages.

By migrating their electronic banking system to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Post Bank reduced application deployment time from 2 hours to only 10 minutes, decreased CPU utilization by 40 percent, and dramatically improved system reliability—all while maintaining full compliance with Poland’s stringent financial regulations. This transformation story demonstrates how financial institutions can use AWS Cloud technology to become more agile and efficient without compromising security or regulatory compliance.

The University of Michigan is breaking new ground in quantum technology accessibility through an innovative collaboration with AWS. This partnership aims to transform the university’s QREAL (Quantum Receiver Enhanced by Adaptive Learning) platform funded by the National Science Foundation into a cloud-accessible quantum testbed. Read this post to learn more.

In this post, we explore how TalkingPoints partnered with AWS and Ednition to build a real-time, scalable infrastructure that powers more proactive communication between schools and families.