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EdTech Cloud Resources

Overview

Education institutions and technology providers supporting them use the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to unlock their data, improve the student experience, and deliver better learning outcomes.

On this page, you'll learn how all types of education technology (EdTech) companies are leveraging the AWS Cloud to innovate and provide solutions to meet customer needs. You'll find solutions, case studies, webinars, guides, eBooks, and more. These resources are organized by topic, so you can quickly find answers or guidance to help meet your company's unique needs.

Accelerate growth and product strategy

Whether you are just beginning to build or expand your business, AWS offers a broad set of technologies and programs to help you innovate, expand, and differentiate your offerings.

Build, innovate, and scale your product offerings

Leverage the latest AWS technologies to experiment, build, deliver, and scale differentiated customer offerings. Create new and exciting user experiences with Alexa for EdTech, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) capabilities.

Market and differentiate your offerings

Engage with AWS to enhance the value of your unique offerings with resources, programs, and benefits that drive greater profitability. As an AWS Partner, EdTech companies can unlock access to differentiation programs, go-to-market resources, funding benefits, and more to gain recognition with customers and to grow your business.

Expand customer reach with AWS

Take advantage of the global reach, scalability, and expertise of AWS to expand your customer base and identify new opportunities.

Duolingo uses AI to teach 300 million users

Learn how Duolingo creates deep learning models on AWS and scales to support more than 300 million answer predictions every day using Amazon EC2 P3 high-performance GPU instances.

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Growth and product strategy cloud resources

Scaling up to 30% while reducing costs by 20%

Discover how education technology company Instructure improved throughput by up to 30 percent using AWS Graviton–based Amazon EC2 instances.

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Immersion workshop on AWS AI/ML basics

Explore the extensive artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services available on AWS for EdTechs in this on-demand workshop.

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Engage with AWS Partner Paths

Explore purpose-built paths to support and strengthen a range of customer offerings across software, hardware, services, training, or distribution.

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Join the AWS Partner Network (APN)

Whether you are just beginning to build or looking to expand your business— join the APN at no cost and access training, enablement resources, well-architected tools, and more.

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See special benefits for startups on AWS

AWS Activate helps educational technology startups build innovative teaching and learning solutions using the AWS Cloud.

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Alexa for EdTech and learning companies

Design new voice-first experiences that drive engagement, reach new users, and streamline access for your product with Amazon Alexa.

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Create personalized learning experiences

Learn how EdTech startups are using AI and ML to help revolutionize the education industry.

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Skillshare increased click-through rate by 63 percent

Learn how Skillshare uses Amazon Personalize to make data-fueled recommendations for members with machine learning.

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Scale and innovate to meet the needs of education customers

Learn how global EdTechs use AWS's global footprint to optimize infrastructure and better serve customers in this eBook.

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Secure data strategy

Data is the cornerstone of digital transformation, and keeping student data safe is of paramount importance to every organization. EdTechs are looking to eliminate data silos and leverage data insights to inform technical and business decisions while ensuring the right people can access the right data to make informed decisions. AWS can help you get the most out of your data while helping you protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Drive impact with a modernized data and analytics strategy

Define, evolve, and implement your data strategy with AWS teams and resources to meet your goals, such as our Growth Advisory and Service Creation teams or AWS technical advisors. AWS can advise you on how to create an end-to-end data strategy that integrates data, empowers employees to put data to work, and prioritizes optimization.

Safeguard your data

Alongside the rise in digital technology, there has been a dramatic increase in cybersecurity attacks and resulting fraud. Data is a valuable asset in the fight against fraud because it can be used to identify patterns and anomalies at scale that might not be apparent to a human analyst. By leveraging the power of data, advanced analytics, and machine learning (ML), it is possible to more effectively detect and prevent fraud, helping you keep your company and customer data protected.

Optimize operational and financial management

With today’s economic pressures, companies are facing challenges of increasing costs and risks to their revenue stream. AWS can help you leverage your data to identify cost saving opportunities and optimize operational costs. Explore value beyond total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction.

Cedar Labs transforms their business through innovation

Hear from Cedar Labs to learn how they use data to create new products, new revenue streams, and uncover insights into business expansion.

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Data strategy cloud resources

Immersion workshop on data engineering

This on-demand workshop is a great starting point to learn the foundational building blocks required to create the scalable data lake from data movement to data storage.

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Webinar: Accelerate business through data science

Watch the on-demand recording to learn how EdTech can successfully launch and manage a thriving data science team, integrating valuable insights into products.

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Utilizing data to accelerate business and product growth

Hear from Cedar Labs to learn how they use data to create new products, new revenue streams, and uncover insights into business expansion.

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Immersion workshop on purpose-built databases

This on-demand workshop will introduce you to the extensive database services available on AWS and how they are being used by EdTech customers.

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Data is helping EdTechs shape the next generation of solutions

Read how four EdTech startups are utilizing data to identify at risk and high achieving students, create dashboards for decision making, and extract user engagement data.

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FuseForward and Toronto Metropolitan University gain better data visibility and optimize efficiency

AWS Partner FuseForward worked with Toronto Metropolitan University to design a platform on AWS that processes and stores 500,000 data records daily to help researchers gain better visibility into building usage.

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Immersion workshop on security and governance

Presented by a panel of AWS solutions architects, you'll learn how you can meet core security and compliance requirements with our comprehensive services and features.

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Bring rapid innovation and evidence to public education

See LearnPlatform’s innovative approach to generating and sharing evidence to drive data-informed decisions about education technology used for teaching and learning.

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Blockchain makes student achievement records safe and simple to share

Learn how EdTechs are adopting blockchain technology to simplify this process, with credential portability, data privacy, simplified workflows, and added data security.

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Cost optimization

EdTechs rely on AWS to deploy cost-effective and highly-available applications and products. 

Seamlessly identify improvements and optimizations

AWS services and tools can help you create efficient solutions and products.  AWS Trusted Advisor offers actionable recommendations to save cost by analyzing usage, configuration and spend in your AWS environment.  AWS Cost Explorer empowers you to visualize costs and real-time usage of AWS services in custom reports.  AWS Budgets enables you to set budgets for different AWS resources and set automatic alerts when you exceed them.

Only pay for what you need and save on premise costs

With AWS, you can simply add or remove IT resources and capacity, and lower costs with pay-as-you-go pricing. With the cloud, you can save costs associated with running and maintaining physical data centers or servers. And because usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud, providers such as AWS can achieve higher economies of scale, which translates into lower prices.

Funding resources for EdTechs

Joining the AWS Partner Network can give you access to AWS credits, differentiation programs, funding benefits, and more. And by joining the AWS Competency program for education, you can also qualify for additional funding, credits, and discounts. 

Instructure reduces costs by 20 percent

Discover how Instructure improved throughput by up to 30 percent using AWS Graviton–based Amazon EC2 instances and reduced costs by 20 percent.

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Cost optimization cloud resources

Instructure scales up to 30 percent while reducing costs by 20 percent

Discover how education technology company Instructure improved throughput by up to 30 percent using AWS Graviton–based Amazon EC2 instances.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices and reduce costs.

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Pearson cut costs by five million dollars

A year after implementing AWS, Pearson cut costs by millions of dollars, scaled to serve hundreds of millions of learners, and removed in-house database management.

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Automations

Serving 700,000 learners on a tight budget

Learn how EdTech startup Vocareum uses AWS Auto Scaling to optimize performance and cost.

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Scaling authentic educational games with Amazon GameLift

See how Immersed Games in EdTech delivered 70 percent cost savings using Amazon GameLift.

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AWS Budgets

With AWS Budgets, set custom budgets to track your costs and usage, and respond quickly to alerts received from email or SNS notifications if you exceed your threshold.

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AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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On-demand cost optimization clinic

Hear from AWS experts on how you can rightsize your cloud deployment, learn architectural best practices, and tips to cut costs.

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AWS Activate

Build and scale your startup with the right resources at the right time as an AWS Activate member.

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Modernization

A key part in any organization’s data transformation journey is to modernize business applications by retiring existing technical debt and migrating workloads to the cloud. With AWS, you get to decide on how to migrate your applications and at what pace, leveraging the industry’s most reliable infrastructure with the deepest set of services. Modernizing your applications with AWS you can reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and make the most of your existing investments.

Migrate seamlessly with a trusted provider

AWS includes many options to help you make your database migration successful. AWS offers AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), a self-service option for migrating databases to AWS with minimal downtime. AWS also has teams that specialize in database and analytics technologies to help assist in your migration. Resources include the  Amazon Database Migration Accelerator, AWS Professional Services, and our network of Database Freedom Partners. 

Maximize the value of your existing investments

As your journey to the cloud matures, part of your digital strategy may require that you run  hybrid environments. With AWS, you can run all your existing systems on a platform that allows integration with legacy applications and cloud native solutions. This gives you the ability to run your most valuable enterprise applications in the cloud, and empowers you to get best return from your assets.

Watermark accelerates migration from two years to six months

Using AWS, Watermark successfully migrated its solution and was able to compress a complete migration of nearly all of its products from an initial estimated timeline of two years to just six months, a 75 percent reduction in time.

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