Tag: education

To remain viable and continue to fulfill their mission, educational institutions are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT costs while maintaining high-quality services. One often overlooked area for potential savings is the management of cloud resources, particularly Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Many universities and colleges find themselves facing unexpected costs when EC2 instances are left running during off-peak hours or periods of inactivity. In this post, we explore how higher education customers can implement automatic shutdown mechanisms for EC2 instances, significantly reducing cloud expenses.

Learn how Benchmark Education Company worked closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a grading tool powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help teachers dramatically reduce the time they spend grading open-ended assessments—while maintaining accuracy, privacy, and trust.

A new publication from Amazon Web Service (AWS) provides insights and case studies on using cloud technology to accelerate sustainability initiatives in the higher education sector. It showcases how AWS works closely with institutions to help them reach their sustainability goals.

EDUCAUSE and the Shared Assessments working group collaborated with Internet2 and REN-ISAC, to create the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association committed to advancing the use of technology and data in higher education. The HECVAT is a third-party, vendor questionnaire framework designed for higher education institutions to evaluate the security and privacy posture of cloud and technology providers. It is intended to centralize vendor security and compliance information for ease of use. Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers both the HECVAT Lite version and Full version to customers on-demand.

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of its first AWS UK Cyber Education Grant Program, a £5 million initiative aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity capabilities of educational institutions across the United Kingdom. Read this post to learn more about the program.

Today, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at the core of many of the decisions and technologies businesses across the globe are implementing. The linchpin to ensuring that generative AI is effective depends on the foundation models (FMs) storing the data. To make sure that those FMs are pulling the correct data, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a solution through Amazon Bedrock to generate SQL to answer user questions about the data. The solution was developed to support the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) and has optimized their decision-making.

Amazon Web Services launched the India Tech Alliance in February 2024 to boost career readiness for learners and modernize tech programs of study through various applied learning activities. Since launch, participating members in the Tech Alliance have collaborated to deliver more than 50 events that have connected 29,000 learners to employers in India. Read this post to learn more.

In this post, we show how Amazon Lightsail for Research can help you successfully deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) image generation model using open source software. We walk through deploying a Lightsail for Research GPU instance using a simplified console experience. We cover how to set up cost control rules in order to prevent or manage unnecessary costs. And we show how you can open network ports on your Lightsail for Research instance to allow others to access the software you are running.

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, […]