Overview
AWS is already helping South African public sector organisations pioneer solutions that can tackle some of the most pertinent challenges facing the country. Since 2004, organizations have used AWS to help build their ideas, improving everyday life for people and communities across the country, throughout the wider African continent, and the world. Cloud is a crucial enabler to effectively compete, and excel in an era of vast opportunities and innovation, dive into these resources learn how AWS can support your cloud journey.
What's new
Using AWS in the Context of South African Privacy Considerations
The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS helps Khayelitsha youth put tech into practice through eKasi Initiative
Latest AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region Certifications
Public sector industry segments
Government
National, regional, and local governments around the world.
Education
Educational institutions, EdTech companies, and students.
Nonprofits
Healthcare
Programs
AWS Activate
AWS provides startups with the low cost, easy to use infrastructure needed to scale and grow. With the AWS Activate program, startups get access to the resources they need to quickly get started on AWS – including credits, training, and support.
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AWS Educate
AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning. With the increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals.
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AWS Academy
AWS Academy helps prepare university students for industry-recognized certifications and high-demand cloud jobs through in-class instruction, hands-on labs, online knowledge assessments, and project work.
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AWS Cloud Credits for Research
The AWS Cloud Credits for Research Program supports researchers who seek to: Build cloud-hosted, publicly available, science-as-a-service applications, software, or tools to advance their research and that of their community; Perform proof-of-concept or benchmark tests evaluating the efficacy of moving research workloads or open datasets to the cloud; And train a broader community on the usage of cloud for research workloads via workshops or tutorials.
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AWS EdStart
The AWS EdStart program provides EdTech startups with resources to quickly get started on AWS – including AWS Promotional Credits, access to training, and support. AWS EdStart is a global community of like-minded people and companies that are solving complex educational problems.
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Government
AWS eKasi
The AWS eKasi initiative aims to build technology skills in South African townships that are sustainable, with skills transfer being paramount. Through AWS eKasi, we work with our public sector customers to develop skills for the township, in the township, delivered by the township.
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AFSOL
Automated Fleet Solutions (AFSOL) works with the Western Cape Provincial Government in South Africa to provide an intelligent transport system to better monitor and manage public transport.
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Sentech
Sentech provides the national broadcasting signal distribution (BSD) and telecommunications for all South African television and radio stations. The AWS Cloud gives them the flexibility to experiment and deliver solutions, drastically reducing the cost of deploying channels.
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GovChat
GovChat became the official platform for citizen engagement with the South African government in 2018. To provide speed of delivery and scalability while keeping costs down, GovChat turned to AWS.
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Education
University of Pretoria
The scale and complexity of the LMS used by the University of Pretoria allows them to focus on the user experience realizing cost savings and robustness with little downtime.
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SkillUp
SkillUp allows students to get one-on-one expert help from trained and experienced tutors. Students now have direct access to the tutor through a web interface, so that lessons can be administered at their convenience. SkillUp uses the breadth and depth of AWS services to innovate and experiment with technology.
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Lightbulb
Lightbulb is an EdTech company that creates learning management systems (LMS) to address the unique needs of the South African education system. Lightbulb LMS allows students to easily communicate with subject-matter experts through mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and other devices. Being able to offer an elastic expansion of services was one of their key reasons for choosing AWS.
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Tuteh
In 2019, the Tshwane University of Technology (TUTEH) turned to AWS to build a cloud-based platform to make it simpler to manage properties. AWS Professional Services worked with the TUTEH IT team over a period of 20 days to deliver T-RES, a serverless cloud platform for property administration.
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University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. Using the AWS Cloud, students are able to have an unparalleled user experience due to fast and locally cached content, and zero-rated data charges.
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Nonprofits
GirlCode
GirlCode strives to alleviate South Africa’s high unemployment rate through targeted technology skills and capacitation initiatives, including a GirlCoder Club, workshops, and a Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) accelerator. They facilitate collaboration between women from divergent backgrounds to create innovative and sustainable solutions.
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Grassroot
Grassroot is a South African nonprofit technology startup enabling low-income South Africans to participate in government.
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Jembi
Hear Lourens Walters, Senior Program Manager and Data Scientist at Jembi Health Systems, discuss how AWS Training has allowed them to improve the way healthcare information is standardized and shared between governments, healthcare organizations as well as academia across Africa.
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Healthcare
A2D24
A2D24 specializes in process digitisation. Using the AWS Cloud, A2D24 is able to use digital technology to streamline and enhance manual, inefficient processes.
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Right ePharmacy
Right ePharmacy is a South African innovation startup. Working with departments of health, they focus on spearheading disruptive technology solutions in the primary healthcare sector.
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Hyrax
In a world of personalized medicine, Hyrax Biosciences’ software enables access to and reduces the cost of genetic diagnostics. This provides doctors with the information they require to prescribe the correct medication to patients. As Hyrax Biosciences increases its global footprint in the highly regulated healthcare industry, they rely on the security and scalability that the AWS cloud offers.
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ehealth
ehealth Africa delivers its software as a service, and, until recently, hosted its software using local infrastructure providers. In May 2020, eHealth Africa migrated to AWS to better meet customers’ needs for high availability, data protection, and security.
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Getting started
AWS partners
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for AWS. It is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.Read our APN Public Sector Partner success stories »
Why become an APN Partner?
As an APN Partner, you will receive business, technical, sales, and marketing resources to help enable you to grow your business and better support your customers. Join the APN and take advantage of numerous APN Partner programs to differentiate your business and connect with customers on AWS. Learn more about the benefits of being an APN Partner below.
If you are an APN Partner who does business with government, education, or nonprofit organizations, learn more about the benefits of becoming an AWS Public Sector Partner.
Why work with an APN Public Sector Partner?
APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of all the business benefits that AWS has to offer. With their deep expertise on AWS, APN Public Sector Partners are uniquely positioned to help your organization at any stage of your cloud adoption journey, and to help you achieve your business objectives. Find an APN Public Sector Partner today.
AWS Public Sector Competency Partners
The APN features best-of-breed technology providers and consulting partners that offer public sector organizations a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.
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