<Management Track> Vincent Quah, Worldwide Public Sector, Business Lead, Education, Research & Not-For-Profit, Amazon Web Services The implementation of highly scalable, easy-to-deploy technology is radically transforming educational models and student engagement. For education, the cloud offers cost savings and agility; as well as the opportunity to develop breakthroughs in research, accelerate learning, enhance educational models, and increase student engagement. This session will highlight how the cloud can accelerate the delivery of new educational service models and new outcomes by providing on-demand access to powerful computing. It will also cover how researchers can innovate their processes and accelerate their time to science.

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Transforming Education and Research
through the AWS Cloud
Vincent Quah, Business Lead – Education, Research and Not for
Profit, Asia Pacific and Japan, AWS

2. Agenda
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• AWS Introduction
• Focus on Differentiation
• Innovate Faster
• Reduce Infrastructure Risks
• Ellucian – Solutions to power Higher Education
• AWS Educate

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AWS in the Public Sector
AWS has millions of active customers
From more than 190 countries

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Used by Government Agencies & Educational
Institutions Worldwide

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Responding requires a new model
Focus on differentiating your organization
Innovate at start-up like speed
Reduce risk

6. Focus on differentiation
and reduce technical debt
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• UND migrated website and global student and
faculty authentication store to AWS with plans to
move 80% of its workloads in the next three years.
• UND Reports 40% savings on IT operational costs
annually.
We are confident in saying that
the AWS infrastructure has
performed exactly as intended.
Sharif Nijim
Enterprise Application Architect,
University of Notre Dame
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Supporting Business of Education
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) needed to replace its
legacy applications and decided to use AWS to run its new analytics
platform as well as several administrative workloads. By using AWS,
UMUC improved the performance of its analytics platform by twentyfold
and enabled its engineers to focus on building new applications instead of
managing IT infrastructure.
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana is the largest community college in
the United States. About 170,000 students register for classes each year;
school maintains a student database with about 1.7 million records. School
needed to scale existing systems, including operational data store (ODS). By
leveraging AWS: Queries complete in as little as three seconds, down
from 40 minutes; Licensing and monthly operational costs are about 60
percent less.

8. Innovate faster than ever before
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Data warehousing for everyone
• Massively parallel, petabyte scale
• Fully managed
• $1000 per TB per year; 1/10th traditional costs
• Use your existing integration and BI tools
Faster, simpler, less expensive
Amazon Redshift
“Being able to explore near-real-time data improves our decision making massively. We
can make decisions based on what’s happening now rather than what happened three
or four days ago… Redshift is the engine that drives our decision-making: that’s how
important it is to us.” John O’Donovan – CTO, Financial Times

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Ivy Tech Meets Petabyte-scale Database Needs
Using AWS
• Needed to scale systems to efficiently manage,
analyze tens of thousands of student records
• Uses Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 as foundation for
analytics services
• Easily scales to manage petabyte-scale database
needs
• Queries completed in as little as three seconds, down
from 40 minutes in the past
• Millions of dollars less expensive to acquire than
other data warehouse solutions
"We could not find any other
database service that offers the
affordability, scalability, and
responsiveness that we get with
AWS."
Lige Hensley
Chief Technology Officer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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Build for speed, build for scale
Consistent, single-digit millisecond latency NoSQL database at any scale
Highly Scalable Fully ManagedFast, Consistent Performance
Event-driven Programming Fine-grained Access Control Document & Key-Value Structures
BMW built its new car-as-a-sensor service in only six months using
DynamoDB and other services. With AWS, it can adapt to rapidly changing
load requirements that can scale up and down by two orders of magnitude
within 24 hours and will process data from 100,000 cars by 2018.
BMW
Amazon DynamoDB

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Using AWS, Open Universities Australia Develops Online Courses
That Reach Over 100,000 Students Worldwide
• Open Universities Australia (OUA) is an aggregator
of Australian universities and colleges that offers
online distance learning services
• In late 2012, OUA decided to develop a massive
open online course (MOOC) site called Open2Study
• By selecting AWS, OUA established an
infrastructure capable of supporting several
hundred thousand of global concurrent users
• OUA is also able to start developing new products
and services within a day on the AWS Cloud and
add them into production in two weeks

13. Reduce Infrastructure Risk
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Strengthen your security posture
Leverage security
enhancements from 1M+
customer experiences
Benefit from AWS
industry leading
security teams 24/7,
365 days a year
Security infrastructure
built to satisfy military,
global banks, and other
high-sensitivity
organizations
Over 50 global
compliance
certifications and
accreditations
“We work closely with AWS to
develop a security model, which we
believe enables us to operate more
securely in the public cloud than we
can in our own data centers.”
Rob Alexander - CIO, Capital One

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Access a deep set of cloud security tools
Amazon VPC
Isolated cloud resources
AWS WAF
Filter Malicious Web
Traffic
AWS Shield
DDoS protection
Certificate Manager
Provision, manage, and
deploy SSL/TSL
certificates
Key Management
Service
Manage creation and
control of encryption keys
CloudHSM
Hardware-based key
storage
Server-Side
Encryption
Flexible data encryption
options
IAM
Manage user access and
encryption keys
SAML Federation
SAML 2.0 support to
allow on-prem identity
integration
Directory Service
Host and manage
Microsoft Active Directory
Organizations
Manage settings for
multiple accounts
AWS Service Catalog
Create and use
standardized products
AWS Config
Track resource inventory
and changes
CloudTrail
Track user activity and
API usage
CloudWatch
Monitor resources and
applications
Inspector
Analyze application
security
Artifact
Self-service for AWS’
compliance reports
Networking Encryption
Identity &
Management
Compliance

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More assurance programs than anyone
Certifications /
Attestations
C5 [Germany], Cyber Essentials Plus [UK], DoD SRG, FedRAMP, FIPS, IRAP [Australia],
ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 9001, MLPS Level 3 [China],
MTCS Tier 3 [Singapore], PCI DSS Level 1, SEC Rule 17a-4(f), SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3
Laws,
Regulations,
and Privacy
DNB [Netherlands], DPA – 1998 [U.K.], EAR, EU Data Protection Directive,
EU Model Clauses, FERPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), HIPAA, HITECH, IRS 1075,
ITAR, My Number Act [Japan], PDPA – 2010 [Malaysia], PDPA – 2012 [Singapore],
PIPEDA [Canada], Privacy Act [Australia], Privacy Act [New Zealand],
Spanish DPA Authorization, VPAT / Section 508
Alignments and
Frameworks
CIS, CJIS, CLIA, CMS Edge, CMSR, CSA, EU-US Privacy Shield, FISC [Japan], FISMA,
G-Cloud [U.K.], GxP (FDA CFR 21 Part 11), ICREA, IT Grundschutz [Germany], MITA 3.0,
MPAA, NIST, PHR, UK Cloud Security Principles, Uptime Institute Tiers

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Universities All-In on AWS (examples)

19. Solutions built to power higher ed
Robust | Flexible | Unified | Cloud-ready | Purpose-built
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20. With Ellucian, colleges and universities have a
technology partner that is committed, connected,
adaptive, and deeply experienced.
We are power, passion, and performance –
brought to bear for higher education and its ability
to better our world.
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21. We are guided by
the belief that insight
and innovation walk
hand-in-hand.
Ellucian is singularly
focused on enhancing
operations of
institutions and
enriching the student
experience.

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Institutions Students
Vendor
Partners
Million Higher Education
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23. 24x7
unlimited
access
40,000+
members and
experts in
E-communities
3,000
employees
dedicated to solving
higher ed’s
challenges

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25. Enhancing every aspect of the modern
connected campus
Integrated
Secure
Extensible
Analytics

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“Having cloud hosting there to do the back office stuff frees
up our staff to focus more on the core things we need to do.”
– Jeff Kasson,
Interim Executive Director, IT,
Otterbein University

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“This was a true partnership between our college, which
strives to be a leader in using modern tools to improve
the lives of faculty, staff, and students, and Ellucian,
a leader in using technology to help institutions achieve
their strategic goals.” – Dr. Glenn E. Mayle,
President,
Arizona Western College

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“Going with Ellucian and the cloud offerings has really
changed our ability to deliver the services that we need to
with our faculty and students.”
– Steve Wightkin,
Associate Vice President IT Operations,
Rush University Medical Center

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Teaching Tomorrow's Cloud Workforce Today

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AWS Educate value proposition and goals
Professional
development for
educators
Open course
content
Grants for free
access to AWS
Communities of
collaboration
• Positively impact hundreds
thousands of students
• Curriculum change
• Student entrepreneurship
• Growth in credentialing
• Accelerate hiring pipeline
• Jobs

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Sampling of global member schools

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Institutional alignment to address the need

33. Migrating existing
applications as
quickly as possible
Deploying new
applications to the
cloud by default
Cloud computing has become the new normal
AWS services millions of active customers every month in 190 countries.
Through customer obsession and an increasing pace of innovation,
AWS is the fastest technology vendor in history to reach a $16B run rate.
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34. The AWS Cloud
Eliminate costly technical debt and reallocate resources
so you can deliver high-value, revenue-generating projects faster.
Innovate faster and solidify your competitive advantage by
merging startup agility with enterprise experience and resources.
Reduce risk by focusing resources dedicated to security, compliance
and availability to the most important areas of your business.
"AWS is our trusted partner that is going to run our company for the next 140 years.”
Jim Fowler – CIO, General Electric
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