Resources for Government, Education, and Nonprofits

With AWS Cloud-based solutions, Keele University in England is now able to meet students’ and prospective students’ admissions needs virtually. To kick-start the university-wide digital transformation, the team decided to start with an immediate need: the admissions process.

From a security perspective, our customers seek answers to the ongoing question: What are the optimal patterns to ensure the right level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of my systems and data while increasing speed and agility? Increasingly, customers are asking specifically about how security architectural patterns that fall under the banner of Zero Trust architecture or Zero Trust networking might help answer this question.

Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company and an AWS Public Sector Partner, helps deploy a remote access solution with Canada's Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

In May 2020, the AWS Public Sector Blog covered stories on the AWS Public Sector Summit Online 2020, chatbots and call centers, and open source solutions. Check out some of the top stories from the blog.

K12 educational organizations are modernizing their institutions by providing secure anywhere, anytime access to learning for students. By using the cloud, many K12 institutions—including schools, districts, educational service agencies, and state education agencies—are having breakthroughs in educational models and student engagement.

The third episode of the Mission Critical Cloud Fix This podcast mini-series by Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, is now live. We dove into how the cloud helps state and local government customers deliver critical services to citizens.

AWS announced the launch of a preview version of an online gamified tutorial, "AWS Cloud Champion: Virtual Workplace Interactive Challenge, " that highlights cloud capabilities available for online meetings, cloud-based contact centers, and virtual desktops.

Part three of the Mission Critical Cloud mini-series explores the future of work and how state and local governments use the cloud to deliver services to citizens.

Across numerous recent customer engagements, our teams have seen an increase in requests for support in four key use cases: remote workforce and productivity, citizen engagement, data management and analytics, and operational resilience and business continuity. Dive into these examples to help you think about what you can get started on today.

Schools are looking for ways to help their students remain productive and connected while learning remotely. End user computing helps schools enable remote learning by providing every student access to the applications they need for class on any computer. This means bring the on-premises computer lab experience to the students, virtually.

State government labor and workforce development agencies are wrestling with an unprecedented surge in demand for services. In one week, 6.6 million Americans filed for initial unemployment insurance claims, nearly double the previous week. Many states are straining to meet this increase for demand in services. The cloud can help labor and agencies quickly scale and shift to meet constituent needs.

The rapidly changing and dynamic global health situation has impacted the lives of many people including researchers at universities and institutions worldwide. Researchers are processing data, collaborating online, and trying to maintain labs remotely. Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are responding to these events in support of our communities and deploying resources and technology to enable remote learning and home working.

Durante este tiempo sin precedentes de cierres temporales y sostenidos en escuelas, nuestros clientes están buscando ayuda para habilitar el aprendizaje y trabajo en línea. Conozca las soluciones disponibles en la nube de AWS para trabajo y aprendizaje a distancia.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has resources and tools to make remote work and e-learning as easy as possible customers during this unprecedented time. In this post, we'll introduce you to APN Partners in our Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program and AWS End User Computing (EUC) Competency Program.

Whether it is to support work from anywhere, global workforce collaboration, agile end-point management, or to ensure business continuity in face of disasters, organizations want remote work solutions that they can depend on. AWS provides a set of solutions built on top of the AWS Cloud to help quickly enable remote work for employees, contractors, students, and contact center agents.

As part of our response to COVID-19, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing tools to support remote learning and teaching. This includes providing customers in the most affected regions with technical support, offerings, and AWS Promotional Credit to help our educational technology providers and educators around the world quickly deploy or extend learning into the home.

With people in many cities and countries now being asked to work or learn from home, we believe that some of our services can help to make the transition from the office or the classroom to the home just a bit easier. Here's an overview of our solutions.

In the event of environmental disruptions, K12 schools, colleges, and universities are using virtual desktops and applications as one solution to help minimize downtime and support staff and students from anywhere, anytime, on any device.

Educational institutions are turning to cloud-based solutions to enable anywhere, anytime access from any device. By using secure desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solutions to provide consistent applications on every virtualized desktop, institutions can reduce variable costs, remove capital expenditures, and achieve mission objectives.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now integrated with the Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) School Passport and available in the GG4L Catalyst Catalog. With the Amazon AppStream 2.0 integration, students can access the software applications they need for class through any computer anywhere, anytime via School Passport.

Public sector organizations are under more pressure than ever to keep data secure, control costs, and empower workers to be more productive. Traditional on-premises tools, such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), application streaming, and mobile access management software, are hard to secure and lack flexibility and scale. As many organizations are looking at cloud-based solutions to meet their needs, it’s important to note that there is more to cloud-based end user computing (EUC) projects than simply moving Microsoft Office products to the cloud. Organizations should take a comprehensive look at their strategic needs and challenges when evaluating cloud-based EUC solutions.

Firefly Learning (Firefly) transcends traditional classroom boundaries to create a contemporary learning experience with their Modern Learning Experience Platform. Using AWS, Firefly has been able to rapidly scale their platform, enabling teachers around the world to innovate in the classroom. Firefly uses EC2 and RDS to keep their costs low and to scale rapidly.

Nic Buihner, Systems Analyst at Huntington Beach High School District, operates under the mantra "get technology out of the way." They needed reliability, accessibility, security, and scalability. About six years ago, the district began their cloud journey by building a grade aggregation platform – MyClasses – in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

In this blog post, we walk through how you can also integrate AppStream 2.0 with your LMS, so your students can access what they need through one portal, including their desktop applications.