AWS for Education
in Australia and New Zealand
Supporting contemporary education through cloud-based, data-driven solutions
Powering digital transformation with students and research at the centre
Whether you’re just starting your cloud journey or delivering a multi-year cloud strategy, Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you enhance teaching and learning, research and innovation, and IT operations.
K12
Providing real-time information and support to the school community for students to reach their full learning potential.
Tertiary Education
Supporting the student journey from enrolment, to graduation and beyond by leveraging data through integrated, efficient systems.
EdTech
Innovate and build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions.
Research
Working with researchers to offer cost-effective, scalable, and secure compute, storage, and database capabilities to accelerate time to science.
Training & Certification
Enabling all learners with industry-recognised certifications to grow and thrive in their careers
Benefits of Cloud for Education
Modernising and securing the institution
Schools and universities can reduce risk, and improve digital equity with AWS. From back-end data management to virtual desktops, schools and universities rely on AWS to ensure the continuity of teaching and learning. Build a flexible, protected, and agile infrastructure with the AWS Cloud.
Turning data into wisdom
Optimise the entire lifecycle of institutional data, and use analytics to make data-driven decisions. Access sophisticated capabilities to support real-time streaming and business intelligence tools, and share data seamlessly across platforms to get a comprehensive view of student performance for collaboration.
Enriching the student experience
Instructors, schools districts, universities, and EdTechs have a key shared goal: to develop successful students. AWS helps education providers personalise learning experiences, and improve learning outcomes.
Empowering researchers and accelerating time to science
Research labs and institutions need to process complex workloads. AWS enables research agencies with the compute, storage, and database capabilities to accelerate time to science.
University of Sydney Accelerate Genomics Research with AWS and Ronin
AWS tools and computing power coupled with the RONIN interface – a simple web application that allows anyone to launch complex compute resources – help us to process, analyse, and categorise all of that data, to build the complete picture.
Learn more from our customers
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Research
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K-12
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The Department of Education, Western Australia Shortens IT Device Audit from Months to Days with AWS
The Department of Education, Western Australia is responsible for delivering high quality education to almost 320,000 students in over 800 schools across Western Australia. To meet reporting requirements, the department conducts an annual computer census to understand the number and types of devices in schools across the state.
The Department for Education of South Australia Protects Students Online with AI-Powered Saasyan Platform on AWS
Saasyan, an AWS Partner based in Australia, worked with the Department for Education of South Australia to implement an AI-powered solution on AWS to centralize management, better protect students online, and prepare schools for online testing. The department deployed the Saasyan online student safety platform, which runs on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS.
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Tertiary Education
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University of Auckland Improves Agility, Innovation, and Resilience on AWS
We wanted to reinforce the confidence of our stakeholders and end-users in our cloud strategy, and showcase that with the cloud, we could do more for students and faculty.
The University of NSW and AWS collaborate to enable tomorrow’s cybersecurity workforce
With new ways of working, and more ways for us to connect across different devices and networks, cybersecurity is one of the critical challenges of the digital age.
University of Adelaide Provides Seamless Bioinformatics Training Using AWS
The researchers foster collaborations across the university with the aim of shaping the future of bioscience research at the institution. To support their goals, they develop and deliver bioinformatics training on campus.
University of Newcastle Digitises Its Student and Researcher Experience on AWS
With the knowledge that technology and digital capability are key enablers of innovation, the University of Newcastle began migrating the majority of its application portfolio to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in 2019.
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EdTech
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Elumina Elearning leverage AWS cloud services to digitise exams
On AWS, Elumina Elearning have access to innovative technologies such as facial recognition and streaming software that helps conduct exams in real time across the world. Learn how AWS has facilitated Elumina Elearning’s growth journey with reliable, sustainable solutions with data that can be stored reliably on the cloud.
Education Perfect improves learning with advanced algorithms and text-to-speech technology
Education Perfect (EP) uses cloud to access the necessary infrastructure that would allow EP to reach classrooms globally and rapidly scale. Learn howAWS became their first choice.
OneSchool Global Uses Octopus BI on AWS to Get Fast Access to Educational Data and Better Track Student Progress
OneSchool Global implemented Octopus BI dashboards on AWS to cut data access time from months to less than 24 hours and better track student growth and learning progress.
The LIV Improves Test-Taking Accessibility by Going Digital with AI-Based Assess App from AWS Partner Elumina
The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) engaged AWS Partner Elumina eLearning (Elumina) for a solution that uses Amazon Rekognition for the remote proctoring of exams. By using Elumina’s AWS-powered solution, the LIV has improved observability and staff productivity and provided a better exam-taking experience to its members
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Research
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University of Sydney Accelerate Genomics Research with AWS and Ronin
In partnership with Ronin, the University of Sydney’s Wildlife Genomics Group scales on demand to reduce genomics data analysis time from 10 days to six hours with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The group studies non-model species to better understand how they can protect wildlife animal populations in Australia.
University of Adelaide Analyzes 3 TB of Genomics Data in Hours Using AWS
Researchers at the University of Adelaide are pioneering scientific and bioinformatics research into subjects such as crop genomes, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. As part of one of Australia’s leading research institutions, bioinformaticians at Adelaide are committed to driving research across the university. Learn how they use the AWS Cloud to analyse genomics data in 6 hours instead of 2 weeks, and reduce research costs.
Queensland University of Technology Advances Global Research on Rare Diseases Using the AWS Cloud
The Office of eResearch at the Queensland University of Technology developed an open-source digital platform to collect and analyze health data in an Amazon VPC to secure patient information. Learn how eResearch@QUT selected Amazon RDS with Amazon Aurora Serverless to deliver high availability, compute performance, and scalability of its databases.
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AWS Cloud for Primary and Secondary Education
New Jersey school district lowers IT infrastructure costs by 50-75 percent
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AWS Cloud for Higher Education
Machine Learning in Education
How colleges and universities can benefit from a cloud data strategy
Leveraging data to future-proof higher education
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Accelerate EdTech innovation with AWS
AWS Activate
EdTechs address mental wellbeing to improve student achievement with the cloud
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Day 1 HPC
Bringing the digital transformation of research to the cloud
Research and Technical Computing on AWS
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AWS Institute
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AWS Public Sector ANZ Content Hub
Read through a curated list of content and eBooks specifically made for public sector customers across government, education, healthcare, research, and nonprofits.
eBook: Unlocking digital possibilities - The future of tertiary education in Australia and New Zealand
Learn how organisations across tertiary education can deliver for a more flexible, multi-faceted, accessible, and cost-effective learning for students.
eBook: Innovation for Life - Rising to the digital transformation challenge in the public sector across Australia and New Zealand
Download this eBook to learn how public sector organisations in Australia and New Zealand are using AWS to deliver innovative services to meet citizens.
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Security
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What is AWS security in Australia and New Zealand?
Watch our quick 3-minute video to learn more about AWS security in Australia and New Zealand.
Security and Compliance for Australia and New Zealand
Learn about Australia and New Zealand’s data privacy and security compliance requirements from our Security and Privacy Knowledge Hub for Australia and New Zealand, and see how AWS can help you meet or exceed your security goals.
AWS and the Australian Signals Directorate Essential Eight
With the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)’s development of eight key strategies for cybersecurity risk and threat mitigation, our customers can now implement the ASD Essential Eight with our services and support.
Blog: Approaches to meeting Australian Government gateway requirements on AWS
This post examines the types of controls you need to provide a gateway that can meet Australian Government requirements defined in the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and the challenges of using traditional deployment models to support cloud-based solutions.
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AWS Cloud Infrastructure
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AWS Region in Sydney, Australia
With an AWS Region in Sydney, Australia, AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. We also have an edge location for Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront in Sydney.
AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia
The Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region is now open with three Availability Zones. In addition to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, there are already seven CloudFront Edge locations in Australia, backed by a Regional edge cache in Sydney.
CloudFront edge location in New Zealand
In New Zealand, our two new edge locations in Auckland will provide viewers as much as a 50 percent reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s Australia geographic region.
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