AWS Cloud for Higher Education
Improve security, lower costs, analyze data, and provide equitable access to teaching and learning resources.
Driving digital transformation in higher education
Colleges and universities are digitally transforming 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 money and resources, and accelerate research efforts.
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How AWS can help higher education institutions
Modernize and secure your campus
Increase agility, data security and compliance, and lower costs with AWS.
- 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
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
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
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
Resources
AWS cloud training and certification
Whether you are just starting out, building on existing IT skills, or sharpening your cloud knowledge, AWS Training and Certification can help you be more effective and do more in the cloud.
Build with an AWS Partner
Looking for support for building or deploying solutions in the cloud? AWS Education Competency Partners are trusted technology providers and consulting experts that offer colleges and universities a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.
Teaching and learning partners
Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.
Blackboard Learn is a full-featured learning management system that brings online education to students.
D2L makes learning experiences better. The company’s cloud-based platform is easy to use, flexible, and smart.
Canvas LMS and the Instructure Learning Platform help make learning personal through software, assessment tools, content, professional development, partner technologies, and a million-member-strong user community.
eThink Education provides a high-touch, unlimited support, cloud-hosted solution for the open-source Moodle and Totara Learning Management Systems.
Schoology brings together the best learning management system with assessment management to improve student learning.
Administrative and operations partners
A Cloud Guru's on-demand, online education enables engineers to work together to design, develop, and deploy cloud applications.
Ellucian's cloud solutions drive institution-wide efficiencies in higher education, and help faculty.
Splunk helps educational institutions gain insights they could not before.
From the back office to the classroom to home, PowerSchool gives educators a complete set of edtech tools to unlock potential.
Take the next step
There are several ways to get started with AWS. Contact us for personalized guidance. Or, explore any of the resources below.
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Get started with AWS
Learn how the cloud can ease your most pressing challenges including security, scalability, and cost savings.
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Host an on-campus training
Prepare your institution for the cloud with an on-campus training. Contact us to learn about special pricing for education customers.
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Find a solution in the AWS Marketplace
The AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software.
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Contact our education experts for customized guidance to start your AWS Cloud journey.
