AWS Cloud for Higher Education

Colleges, universities, and leading institutions are digitally transforming their student and staff experiences with cost-effective, scalable, secure, and flexible Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud infrastructure. With AWS, you can support teaching and learning, connect the campus community to systems and tools, store data efficiently, make data-driven decisions to save funds and resources, and accelerate research efforts.

How AWS is helping higher education institutions

Modernize and secure your campus

• Modernize administrative operations, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and student information systems (SIS)
• Access resources to help migrate workloads and data centers to the cloud
• Scale capacity and resources as needed and lower costs with pay-as-you-go pricing
• Support for 98 security standards and compliance certifications
• Minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable disaster recovery

See how the University of Notre Dame finds errors in minutes, not hours: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/university-notre-dame-aws-marketplace-case-study/

Improve the student experience

Create new ways to communicate and personalize engagement with students, ensure continuity of teaching and learning, and improve equity and access to digital resources.

• Access applications and desktops 24/7—anytime, anywhere
• Power virtual computer labs, intelligent digital assistants and chatbots, innovative voice technologies, and extended reality environments
• Unlock artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities

See how Arizona State University engages students with interactive videos: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/prmbp-asu-engages-students-amazon-ivs/

Empower researchers and accelerate research

AWS helps leading higher education institutions, as well as national and international research agencies, accelerate research timelines by spending less time building infrastructure and more time on science.

• Easily launch secure compute, storage, and database resources within minutes 
• Access to open datasets, funding, and training

Explore technology, data, and funding to advance science: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-computing/

Turn data into wisdom

Optimize the entire lifecycle of institutional data and use analytics to make data-driven decisions and lower costs. 

• Store, manage, and unlock insights from even the largest amounts of data to support predictive analytics, retention efforts, and student engagement
• Access sophisticated capabilities to support real-time streaming and analytics and business intelligence tools
• Share data seamlessly across platforms to get a comprehensive view of student performance or for collaboration

Discover how the University of Queensland enhances its campus using a data lake built on AWS: 

Resources

Training and certifications: https://aws.amazon.com/training/

Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/

Take the next step

There are several ways to get started with AWS. Contact us for personal guidance or to further explore the resources below: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/contact/.

1. Get started with AWS. Learn how the cloud can ease your most pressing challenges, including security, scalability, and cost savings: https://aws.amazon.com/education/higher-ed/get-started/
2. Host an on-campus training. Contact us to learn more about special pricing for your institution: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/contact/
3. Find a solution in the AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalogue that makes it easy for institutions to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/public-sector/education