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University of British Columbia Cloud Innovation Centre: Governing an innovation hub using AWS management services

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The Centre’s work has involved 300-plus AWS accounts across various groups, including external collaborators, UBC staff, students, and researchers. High-level technical solution AWS recommends using AWS Control Tower as a foundational landing zone for managing multi-account environments with prescriptive controls.

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4 steps EdTechs can take to grow their profitability on AWS

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Successful EdTechs balance innovation (for example, new features or technology, like generative artificial intelligence (AI) ) with managing costs – both of product development and of operating costs for customer environments. The following framework demonstrates how EdTechs can improve their understanding of cost and profit drivers.

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Best practices for project management in the AWS Cloud

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Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Select the right project management tools With a governance strategy, requirements, and a project plan in place, the next step is deciding the tools that aid the project’s success. Learn more about cloud financial management with AWS.

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

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Dave will be joined by speakers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston , Covered California , and Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) on the generational impact that cloud technology has helped drive—creating history’s most equitable financial system, reducing health disparities, building smart nations, and more.

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Higher education cloud financial planning: A former CFO’s perspective

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Frameworks for financial planning in higher education AWS offers two rich frameworks for this kind of financial planning. The Cloud Financial Management Framework focuses on financial planning related to current and future usage of cloud resources. These two frameworks can be valuable for CFOs.

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The true costs of resiliency decisions

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These true costs include the full spectrum of costing considerations that make up a decision, from readily-determinable accounting costs to less-recognizable intangible costs. At Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), estimating the accounting costs of resilient workloads is made simpler with the publicly-available AWS Pricing Calculator.

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It’s time to evolve IT procurement

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Why using old procurement methods is a problem Cloud computing presents a difficult choice for organizations: adopt and shift operating models to take advantage of its benefits or maintain the status quo and miss out. On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity.