Category: Higher education

Building on a commitment to using innovative technologies to enhance the learning experience, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) collaborated with AWS to develop UT Sage, a faculty-guided, generative AI tutor platform. UT Sage provides conversational course-related support on-demand while aligning with responsible AI frameworks and preserving the essential connection between faculty and students. In this post, learn how UT Austin worked with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build UT Sage and what this experience can teach other institutions navigating the promise and responsibility of AI in higher education.

To support a student population that includes many nontraditional learners, such as working adults, caregivers, and first-generation learners, the University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College (UA-PTC) needed a faster and more intuitive way to deliver campus information. UA-PTC worked with Modo Labs, an AWS Partner, to launch MyAgent, a generative artificial intelligence agent built on AWS that delivers real-time, verified answers to conversational student questions directly within the college’s Modo-powered app.

During the 2025 AWS Summit in Washington, DC keynote address, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Pearson showcased the strength of their expanded collaboration to accelerate the development of AI-powered, personalized learning solutions.

Macquarie University today announced a significant advancement in its digital transformation journey, partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a modern, cloud-first environment that will revolutionize its technology infrastructure and services delivery.

What if you could get trusted answers from a leading veterinary college, any time of day, from anywhere? That’s the idea behind Big Red Bark Chat, a generative AI-powered chatbot developed by the Cornell Richard P. Riney Canine Health Center (RCHC) at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in collaboration with AWS.

The post-secondary education sector is about to experience a seismic shift in how it manages data. In a landmark announcement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MortarCAPS have revealed a strategic partnership that promises to transform the way that tertiary education institutions handle information, support students, and drive innovation.

The University of Minnesota Athletics Department had access to a lot of data, but lacked a way to bring it together. Even answering simple questions, like how many tickets were sold and who received them, required hours of cross-platform data wrangling. In less than a year, the department replaced that complexity with a scalable data lake built on AWS. The new data architecture—which gives the department full visibility into ticketing transactions and digital behavior—was built by a small internal team, without requiring a complete overhaul of their existing systems.

In this post, we explore how The Chronicle of Higher Education harnessed the power of generative AI and Amazon Bedrock to build Chron: a search assistant that unlocks the full value of The Chronicle’s rich archive for educators, administrators, and all higher-education professionals.

To help researchers reclaim their time and focus on discovery, Indiana University developed a secure, scalable, and cost-effective Automated Transcription Service (ATS) built on AWS. Since launching, the service has supported nearly 60 projects across 16 departments and has become a model for how universities can use cloud-native tools to affordably streamline research workflows and protect sensitive data.

Cloud infrastructure expansion, agentic AI advancement, and national security initiatives took center stage today during the keynote of the AWS Summit Washington, DC. The annual gathering in the nation’s capital showcased the continued commitment of AWS to public sector innovation and digital transformation.