Category: Education

In this post, we explore how The Chronicle of Higher Education harnessed the power of generative AI and Amazon Bedrock to build Chron: a search assistant that unlocks the full value of The Chronicle’s rich archive for educators, administrators, and all higher-education professionals.

With over a decade of experience supporting more than 2,000 school districts across North America, Panorama Education had already built powerful tools for integrating academic, attendance, behavior, and life skills into one unified view of student progress. To unlock the value of that data securely, Panorama built Solara, a generative AI platform built on AWS. Solara is designed to help educators make sense of student data faster, design personalized student improvement plans, and reduce administrative burden while maintaining trust and data privacy at scale.

To help researchers reclaim their time and focus on discovery, Indiana University developed a secure, scalable, and cost-effective Automated Transcription Service (ATS) built on AWS. Since launching, the service has supported nearly 60 projects across 16 departments and has become a model for how universities can use cloud-native tools to affordably streamline research workflows and protect sensitive data.

Learning Upgrade worked with AWS to modernize its platform and ultimately migrated fully to the cloud. This strategic shift empowered Learning Upgrade to scale globally, respond faster to new opportunities, and better serve learners in dynamic, resource-constrained environments. Read this post to learn more.

Cloud infrastructure expansion, agentic AI advancement, and national security initiatives took center stage today during the keynote of the AWS Summit Washington, DC. The annual gathering in the nation’s capital showcased the continued commitment of AWS to public sector innovation and digital transformation.

Last year, AWS launched the AWS Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Initiative, a two-year, $50 million investment designed to help public sector organizations accelerate innovation using AWS generative AI services. Today, we’re excited to share the remarkable progress we’ve made and highlight how organizations are utilizing AWS technologies to transform operations and deliver better outcomes for the communities they serve.

This post demonstrates how to enhance security and compliance in an isolated SageMaker JupyterLab environment by implementing two key customizations: configuring download restrictions and implementing secure Python package installation through AWS CodeArtifact.

To understand how migrating to AWS can help educational institutions meet their sustainability goals, we first need to unpack the environmental impact of IT operations. That means examining the actual carbon math behind IT and where emissions really come from.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) has become a hub for innovation by prototyping generative AI applications in collaboration with public sector sponsors. This post highlights how the UBC CIC uses AWS to accelerate generative AI development, sharing lessons learned, tools used, and actionable insights you can apply to your projects.

Forward-thinking higher education leaders are using AI and automation from AWS to transform their operations while reducing costs. These institutions aren’t just adopting new technology—they’re reimagining core processes to create ongoing improvements that enhance both operational efficiency and the student experience. Read this post to learn more.