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AWS for Education

AWS empowers education leaders to enable personalized learning, streamline administrative operations, accelerate secure and collaborative research, and close skill gaps. Unlock actionable insights through student data, AI/ML capabilities, and industry-leading security for resilience.

Accelerating cloud innovation for education

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a mission to accelerate the digital transformation of education in partnership with the full education community, including learners, educators, administrators, and researchers.

Over 17,000 education customers of all sizes—from primary and secondary schools through higher education and EdTechs—use AWS. With the broadest choice of foundation AI/ML models and unique generative AI applications, education organizations of all sizes can focus on its core mission in a secure environment rather than infrastructure management.

Benefits

Education leaders rely on the deep industry expertise of AWS, enabling education innovation for industry leaders from major school districts, universities, EdTech companies and research institutes to improve student and campus experiences and accelerate research.

With the largest community of industry-focused partners, AWS enables education customers to leverage scalable, secure solutions that innovate teaching and learning. Institutions can select best-fit offerings from this vast ecosystem to achieve their core mission and support lifelong learning.

AWS offers the most robust and secure cloud services and solutions to uphold student privacy, data security, and safe environment for collaborative research compliance standards.

Learn more about cloud computing and its benefits

Cloud computing empowers public sector organizations to focus on their missions, not IT infrastructure. AWS Cloud delivers a comprehensive suite of on-demand services—computing, storage, networking, and databases—available instantly with pay-as-you-go pricing. This enables agencies to innovate faster, improve agility, optimize costs, and scale effortlessly, ultimately enhancing their ability to serve citizens effectively.

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AWS Training and Certification offers flexible learning options to suit your needs, from self-paced digital courses to expert-led training and industry-recognized certifications. Whether you prefer to learn at your own pace, train with AWS experts, or follow a specific career path, AWS provides the resources to help you build and validate your cloud skills, enhancing your credibility in the industry.

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To keep up with rapid technological advancement and the new world of work, current and future generations of leaders should be equipped with the right skills and mindset. Innovating in classrooms and beyond and creating citizen-centric services means taking advantage of the latest technology. It also means empowering the people who build and use it. 

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Generative AI innovation in education

Personalized course recommendation to scale advising

Improve the student degree completion rates and optimize advising resources to gain insights into student course-taking patterns to provide timely, personalized guidance.

  • Proactive student intervention from advisors
  • Improved student retention and graduation rates
  • Smart staff resource allocation

Learn more about how Kern Community College District partnered with AWS to build AI/ML-enabled Guided Pathways tool.

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Scale student enrollment process

Manually processing 60,000 pages of international academic transcripts is labor-intensive, costly for students, and take weeks to complete. Streamline operations and optimize resource utilization to enhance student support and academic success.

  • Data-driven enrollment and fiscal management
  • Streamline transcript review and course articulation process
  • Enhanced and secured data access for key department

Learn more about how Illinois Tech's digital transformation enhances access and equity.

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AI innovation with large language models

Developing large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters to push the frontiers of knowledge. Deliver science discovery and transformative technologies that will future-proof our society today.

  • State-of-the-art performance while remaining cost effective
  • Open access and collaboration for researchers, entrepreneurs, and organizations globally.
  • Focus on science and innovation rather than infrastructure management

Learn more about how Technology Innovation Institute trained the state-of-the-art Falcon LLM 40B foundation model on Amazon SageMaker.

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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.

1

Learn how to buy AWS

Discover the steps and best practices you need to start your journey to cloud.

2

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.

3

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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