AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

The Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance launches in the UK to address the growing need for AI skills and tech job readiness Amazon is launching the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance in the UK in collaboration with education institutions, government leaders, and enterprises, with a goal to provide 100,000 people with emerging technology skills by 2030.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 17, 2023

For higher education institutions , there is a growing focus on the importance of improving the student experience, which touches on virtually everything colleges and universities do. And how can higher education institutions improve the student experience? How to get started using data to future-proof higher education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This commitment reflects a growing recognition of higher educations vital role in addressing global and societal impacting challenges. Through research, teaching, and community engagement, educators are uniquely positioned to shape the next generation of leaders and innovators who will be looking to tackle these sustainability challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. Building on the programs success, AWS will bring AWS Learning Days to new cities in 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Managing access to websites and safeguarding users from harmful content is a critical component of a layered cybersecurity approach, especially in educational settings. AWS managed rule groups can be used to block access to known malware and botnet threats.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Higher education institutions are turning to data to solve challenges, improve efficiency, and create a better student experience. A data lake, or centralized repository for all data, is flexible and allows less technical users to manage and analyze diverse sets of data points.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) for Education , an industry-specific deployment of the LZA on AWS , designed to further support education customers in designing cloud environments for their compliance needs. One area of immediate concern is security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 21, 2022

It’s important that the technology and methods educators use to teach these important skills aren’t barriers to learning. The browser-based computational notebook tool, Jupyter , provides students and educators with an interactive learning environment to accelerate programming learning. for students as early as possible.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website. Code for America advocates easing the citizen experience in clearing criminal records when appropriate. “A

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework as a template, follow these five steps to prepare for the upcoming holiday season: Continuously educate through end-user training.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The University of North Carolina (UNC) System is expanding education opportunities for adult learners in the state of North Carolina. But delivering a great online learning experience for students, faculty, and administrators requires higher education institutions to manage a legion of education technology (EdTech) services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Data is key to a higher education institution’s ability to expose insights and improve student performance and outcomes. With many data solutions available, AWS can help education institutions map out an individualized data journey by starting simple, unlocking existing data, and moving toward a fully data-driven institution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research, and Innovation (MHESI) to boost innovation using cloud technology. Through this collaboration, AWS will support MHESI to identify pilot workloads for the ministry to start migrating to the AWS Cloud.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

Law enforcement, public health, emergency response, state benefits, public education, municipal services such as 311, transit and critical infrastructure are just some of the core services that can be disrupted due to network issues.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Data consumption is a key component of successfully supporting K12 students, educators, and education leaders because it can provide a unified and democratized view of their data, regardless of their technical background, with the help of business intelligence (BI) tools. IT departments have options when it comes to BI tools.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Leaders in education and state and local government know that technology is changing at a rapid pace. That’s the central theme of this year’s AWS IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no cost to attend; register now to secure your spot.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Curriculum Associates is an education technology ( EdTech ) company using data-driven technology to bring personalized, evidence-based learning to K12 education institutions. Their personalized assessment and instruction products serve more than 13 million students and over 1 million educators around the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Leaders in higher education recognize that generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud computing, and other advanced technologies are rapidly changing how education and research happen on campus.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At this year’s IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders, three K12 technology leaders convened to answer the question: How can the cloud help innovative ideas scale and expand in K12 education? Similarly, a Texas education service center is moving to the cloud to go to market more quickly.

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Careers in Government

AUGUST 14, 2024

Performance management (PM) is an essential process in any organization, designed to ensure alignment of employees’ work with the company's goals and future development efforts. The post Performance Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Antiquated appeared first on Careers in Government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

This blog is the first in a series that discusses how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in education. But can this groundbreaking innovation help in addressing more complex societal issues, such as the equality of access to education? This helps educators make deeper connections with students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers and education industry experts highlighted earlier this year in the “ Innovation drivers in higher education ” report, student demand for comprehensive sustainability strategies is a key factor in driving this change. Sustainability is becoming a priority topic across public sector organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

The Sri Lankan government urgently sought a solution to equitably manage fuel distribution through systematic rationing, requiring rapid digital intervention. These support rapid, large-scale rollouts of innovative, inclusive, essential public and private servicesfrom healthcare, education, and financial systems, to transport access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Data-driven innovation for sustainable development Data and digital technology can create a pathway to data-driven decision-making , assisting in addressing not just existing obstacles but also proactively identifying and managing environmental risks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The CIC uses emerging technologies to solve real-world problems and has produced more than 50 prototypes in sectors like healthcare, education, and research. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Educational institutions create a significant amount of data across administrative systems, learners’ educational journeys through the institution, and more. So how can educational institutions and education technology companies (EdTechs) make the most of all this data? This data can largely be classified into two forms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

They used Amazon Bedrock , a fully managed service that lets users build on top of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, and a variety of data provisioning tools. Learn more about how higher education institutions are using AWS at the AWS for Higher Education hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Employers play a crucial role in this process, engaging learners and educators through skills maps, capstone projects, internships, apprenticeships, and exclusive hiring events for participating educational institutions.

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Government Technology Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Of the many lessons learned during the pandemic, one of the most impactful is that education doesn’t–and shouldn’t–happen only in the classroom. The digital world and the multitude of online educational tools offer so many learning opportunities that can help students and teachers prepare for the future.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

To help meet this demand for talent, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance is expanding into Texas, with support from key collaborators across industry, education and government. These employers include: Brooksource , CoreStack , DLZP Group , JPMorganChase , TanChes Global Management , and TEKsystems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s estimated that 55 percent of educational institutions will have implemented a SaaS cloud model by 2025. State and local government organizations and education institutions tend to adopt cloud services at a lower rate for a few reasons: a lack of cloud awareness and technical skills, a shortage of IT workers, and financial considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Cloud computing technology is transforming education, driving new expectations in personalized learning, academic medicine, and research. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been at the forefront with innovative educators, researchers, and medical professionals to modernize classrooms, labs, libraries, and medical centers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

However, in my experience as a former chief financial officer (CFO) in higher education , financial planning for cloud computing is often not attended to with as much diligence. Financial planning needs to be understood as a positive feature of digital transformation, even if it means changing how financial plans are developed and managed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The initiative brings together a coalition of Fortune 500 companies and other employers, government agencies, workforce development organizations, and education leaders to better prepare learners for entry-level tech careers. More than 30,000 students are training through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) program.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

At the IMAGINE 2022 conference in Seattle, Washington, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the inaugural class of the AWS Education Champions community. The AWS Education Champions community is a new program to celebrate and support influential individuals whose work accelerates the digital transformation of education with the AWS Cloud.

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