Tag: education

In this blog, we will explore how customers can use Innovation Sandbox on AWS to transform the management of temporary sandbox environments, so that they can focus on driving innovation, skill building, and developing the next big technological breakthrough.

For students to succeed, they need to feel safe, supported, and ready to learn. Yet many schools still rely on fragmented or outdated processes to support student health and safety. Kokomo24/7, an education technology (EdTech) company, provides wrap-around health and safety platforms powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that meet the needs of an individual school or an entire school district. Read this post to learn more.

Organizations are modernizing their incident response by using AWS capabilities alongside chat-based collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. This shift helps streamline monitoring, enabling centralized awareness, real-time collaboration, and faster threat detection and mitigation. In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Q Developer in chat applications transforms incident response and team coordination, with practical examples using Slack integration.

Meeple Srl—a technology spin-off from the University of Padua and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner—has released the Amazon Bedrock API Provider plugin for Moodle. This open source integration enables educational institutions to seamlessly connect Moodle Learning Management Systems with Amazon Bedrock, providing access to foundation models. Read this post to learn more.

University central IT teams serve as the backbone of campus-wide technology operations, managing critical infrastructure, services, and security that power both academic and administrative functions. These teams are responsible for orchestrating complex cloud environments across multiple AWS accounts, making sure they meet institutional standards while enabling innovation across the campus community.

In this post, we provide step-by-step guidance for deploying Malcolm—an open source network traffic analysis suite—natively on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), using the on-demand compute, elasticity, and scalability of AWS to eliminate traditional infrastructure overhead. This approach is particularly beneficial for cost-conscious public sector (federal, state, and local), utility, and industrial customers who require network and security monitoring to deliver on their missions.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore empowers higher education institutions to finally move beyond AI experimentation to deliver intelligent, personalized support at a campus-wide scale. Read this post to learn more.

The eighth annual AWS Imagine conference for education, state, and local government leaders kicked off in Chicago today. Taking place in the Windy City for the first time, attendees will partake in a day-and-a-half of programming that explores how education and government customers can innovate on behalf of those they serve. Kim Majerus, AWS Vice President of Global Education and US State and Local Government, delivered the keynote address, which focused on how AWS is helping reframe, retrain, and reenergize public sector organizations. Read this post to learn more about some of the highlights from today’s keynote.

Imagine equipping every student with an adaptive study companion, faculty with an AI assistant for creating engaging teaching materials, and staff with an AI collaborator for tracking and analyzing student progress—that’s what Anthropic is offering with Claude for Education. Universities can now equip their academic community with this educational version of Claude while benefiting from the streamlined procurement and billing benefits of AWS. Read this post to learn more.

The Center for Digital Government and the Center for Digital Education (CDG/CDE) and AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector. Curated by the CDG/CDE, this annual awards program recognizes visionary public and private sector organizations across state and local government (SLG), K–12, and higher education that are using the power of cloud computing to deliver better, faster, and more inclusive services.