Category: Education

Open data is reshaping how we understand and respond to global challenges. From climate change to disaster recovery, the ability to access and analyze large-scale geospatial datasets is critical for scientific research, policy-making, and real-world applications. Leading the charge are several open data initiatives designed to lower access barriers and accelerate innovation: Open Data on AWS, the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), and the Maxar Open Data Program on AWS. Together, these programs demonstrate the power of cloud-enabled open data to democratize access to geospatial information, promote global collaboration, and drive real-world impact. In this post, we demonstrate how to explore and visualize these datasets using interactive web applications and Jupyter notebooks.

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.

Kansas State University (K-State)—In collaboration with AWS and AWS Partner, ROK Technologies—is developing Geocat: a scalable, cloud-native ArcGIS Enterprise platform. Designed to serve students, faculty, and extension professionals, Geocat is advancing K-State’s land-grant mission by making cutting-edge geospatial infrastructure accessible across the university and beyond.

Read this post to learn how Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center migrated its Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to a secure, hybrid cloud environment in collaboration with AWS. The migration strengthened the system’s reliability, improved security, lowered costs—all while laying the groundwork for future growth.

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 Yet many schools still rely on fragmented or outdated processes to support student health and safety.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.