Ellucian uses AWS for a global, scalable, highly secure and innovative platform to hosts its applications to better serve its higher education customers in more than 20 countries around the world. Ellucian provides applications for higher education institutions. Ellucian’s use of AWS, its expansive application footprint, and large user base allows universities to scale up during peak registration times and then scale down to saves costs and resources, delivering a better customer experience.

University of Maryland, College Park uses the AWS Cloud to create a stable, secure and modern technical environment for its students and staff while ensuring compliance. The University of Maryland is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland, and is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. The university is using AWS to migrate all of its datacenters to the cloud, as well as Amazon WorkSpaces to give students access to software anytime, anywhere and with any device.

The Guttman Lab at the California Institute of Technology uses an AWS-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to quickly add new compute nodes, analyze genomic sequencing data in days instead of weeks, and easily manage cluster access credentials. Led by Dr. Mitch Guttman, the Guttman Lab is a Pasadena, California–based research laboratory specializing in the study of large noncoding RNA genes. The lab runs its growing HPC cluster on AWS, using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to launch resources in a defined network and Amazon WorkSpaces and Simple AD to manage access.  

Open Universities Australia (OUA) provides distance education and online courses to students in Australia and other countries. OUA’s collocated data center could not deliver the scalability to support planned growth and diversification with the required cost efficiencies, so the business moved its websites and business applications into AWS. This has enabled OUA to reduce the time required to deliver changes to production from three months to less than two hours, cut costs by up to AU$1 million (US$726,850) over two years, and improve the performance of websites by up to 20 percent.  

Using AWS, Change.org can develop and deploy new features faster, it has reduced test build times from one hour to 15 minutes, and it can easily scale to support website traffic spikes. Change.org is the world’s largest and fastest growing social-change platform, with more than 125 million users in 196 countries starting campaigns and mobilizing support for local causes and global issues. The organization runs its website and business intelligence cluster on AWS, and it runs its continuous integration and testing on Solano CI, an AWS-based solution from AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner Solano Labs.  

Using AWS has enabled the International Rice Research Institute and other partners to cut technology infrastructure costs by 30 percent, achieve 99.999 percent availability, and deliver specialized test environments in two hours. International Rice Research Institute develops rice varieties that can withstand drought, flooding, disease, and other potentially damaging events. The organization has collaborated with nine other members of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research to run an integrated enterprise resource planning system on AWS.

MPAC runs its core property valuation engine 5,000 percent faster at one-tenth the cost using AWS instead of its older IT architecture. MPAC—the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation—is a public sector organization responsible for providing valuations for more than 5 million properties across Canada. The company moved from its traditional IT architecture to be more responsive and agile in serving its customers.

Deborah W. Brooks, Co-Founder & Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research shares how MJFF uses the cloud to help fight Parkinson’s Disease at the 2016 AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC.  

Stephanie von Friedeburg - Group Chief Information Officer and Vice President, Information and Technology Solutions - World Bank talks about their transition to the cloud.  

Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children is a nonprofit organization dedicated to driving technology innovation to fight child trafficking. Technological innovation can mean rapid intervention in situations that threaten lives. Learn how AWS allows them to experiment and scale to get the tools in the hands of those who can deploy it across the country and internationally to save lives and protect children.