AWS Nonprofit Competency Partners

UK-based charity Lyra in Africa helps children in rural Tanzania attend and complete secondary school. Established in 2012, it has delivered 15 hostels for girls in rural government schools and provides an offline digital learning program to partner high schools, each with a computer lab with learning content preloaded on the computers. Lyra also works with two teacher training colleges to boost IT literacy among teachers. Until recently, the organization relied on service providers in the UK to collect donations from individual sponsors, but that was proving an expensive fundraising strategy. Lyra turned to AWS Partner Softcat to build a low-cost online donation platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The system has automated payment processing and recordkeeping that helps the charity automatically benefit from the UK government’s Gift Aid tax relief program.

Darwinbox wanted to reduce the time to infer resumes against job descriptions using PyTorch models. AWS Premier Partner Minfy helped them leverage Amazon SageMaker and AWS Inferentia to compile models with Neuron SDK and deploy them, achieving 87% faster inference without retraining. Key steps were compiling models with the Neuron SDK, extending SageMaker containers, using Inference Recommender to optimize configurations, and sending requests in mini-batches.

Javelo, a Tellent owned company, migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cut its infrastructure maintenance and support costs by 98 percent. The company was faced with strong growth and a looming international launch—and a need to innovate. It also needed to scale easily and build in strong security measures on a flexible infrastructure. Javelo worked with AWS Partner A1 Cloud Technologies to achieve its goals. Since migrating to AWS, it has seen a 200 percent increase in web traffic over 2 years and cut platform response times by 50 percent. Using AWS System Manager and AWS KMS they can easily comply with data regulations and focus on product innovation.