Amazon Web Services has announced at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions are leveraging AWS for a wide range of uses including big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, archiving and storage, and disaster relief.
“Government agencies and education institutions are rapidly accelerating their adoption of the AWS Cloud as organizations worldwide realize that they can be more innovative, agile and efficient by using the cloud for their technology infrastructure,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “In addition, with initiatives such as the US Federal Cloud First mandate and the European Cloud Partnership, organizations are looking for ways to quickly move new and existing business and mission workloads to the cloud in a secure, compliant and cost-effective manner. With the new services and features added today in AWS GovCloud, public sector customers now have greater capabilities to rapidly design, build and deploy high performance applications with AWS’s scalable, secure, low-cost platform.”
Education institutions such as public and private universities, community colleges and K-12 schools and districts are quickly moving to the cloud so educators and researchers can advance classroom curriculum, teaching methods and research without the limitation of funding expensive hardware. Today, more than 1,500 education institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Georgetown University, New York University, California Institute of Technology, University of California – Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maryland, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, University of Washington, University of Oxford, and the University of Melbourne are leveraging AWS. Additionally, AWS has supported grants of over $4 million to 350universities in 35 countries through its education grants program, which allows educators, students and researchers to apply for AWS service credits to support their classroom projects.
The M.S. in Analytics at the University of San Francisco provides students with the skills necessary to develop techniques and processes for data-driven decision-making. “We’ve integrated AWS into the curriculum for our Masters in Analytics program so we can give students real-world experience computing and analyzing large quantities of data,” said Terence Parr, Director of the Analytics Graduate Program, University of San Francisco. “The majority of students are used to running simulated analytics on their laptops, but that’s not the way it’s done in business today. By using AWS, each student gains access to the compute resources they need to solve large-scale problems just as they would in their future careers, without our organization having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on supercomputer-strength hardware.”
“Berkeley AMP Lab is a five-year collaborative effort at UC Berkeley, involving students, researchers and faculty from a wide swath of computer science and data-intensive application domains to address the Big Data analytics problem. We started using AWS because we knew it would completely change the way we could approach our research by enabling us to access scalable and affordable computing in a moment’s notice,” said Mike Franklin, Director, UC Berkeley AMP Lab. “At Berkeley’sAMP Lab, we are creating new data analytics software for Big Data applications. We measure and validate our software on real world problems like cancer genomics, traffic prediction and environmental monitoring. We have accelerated our research by using AWS to reconfigure the computational resources we need to fit the problem we’re trying to solve at scale, rather than having to limit our research to our fit on our existing IT resources.”
Source > http://edtechtimes.com/2012/10/10/more-than-1500-learning-institutions-now-using-amazon-web-services/
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