Category: Events

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Saurabh Shrivastava. By Thooyavan Arumugam, Senior Cloud Architect at Tech MahindraBy Saurabh Shrivastava, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vivek Raju, Manager, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIBM Maximo is an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution that helps organizations manage their assets, track operations, and perform preventive maintenance using predictive analysis and enterprise-ready features. Maximo can be deployed in an on-premises environment, as well as on a public cloud or hybrid cloud environment. As cloud computing is becoming the industry norm, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions and a broad ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Initiative from the World Bank, AWS, and AGFE trains students on cloud technology and soft skillsThe World Bank, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE), hosted the Skills for The Future Initiative (SFI) at Zayed University in Dubai on June 19th and 20th. The program introduced the next generation of technology leaders in the United Arab Emirates to the skills needed to prepare them for the jobs of the future. The two-day training bootcamp attracted students from 12 institutes who learned about the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As students prepare to go back to school, over 1,000 students, educators, university presidents, college administrators, superintendents, and business leaders from 43 different countries met in Seattle, Washington, to discuss the opportunities in the world of education, and how AWS can be used to create innovative solutions. The conference revolved around three core themes: building the workforce of tomorrow, innovation and transformation, and the role of machine learning in education. Read on for the major highlights from the event: NOVA brings data science courses to the USMC with AWS Educate The ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Joseph Glover. By Joseph Glover, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSBy Arun Sehgal, APN Lead – Power and Utilities at AWSBy Kam Lee, IoT Technical Specialist at IntelPower utilities around the world are headed towards the most radical shift in their business since their inception nearly 150 years ago. The concepts of decarbonization and the democratization of assets are taking root in the energy supply business. At the same time, the digitization of the grid—along with the shifting requirements of regulatory bodies—creates new challenges and opportunities for utilities around the world. Many utilities face an interesting challenge: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Pearson has announced a new Alexa skill for their Revel product at the “AWS Imagine: A Better World,”A Global Education Conference in Seattle. This free skill gives users convenient access to Revel courses on any Alexa-enabled device. Now, students looking for information on upcoming assignments or those who want to review a concept can just ask Alexa.Revel is Pearson’s fully digital learning environment hosted on AWS. With Revel, students can access courses on everything from art history and philosophy to computer programming and finance. Revel blends digital text, media, and assessments ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mike Deck. By Mike Deck, Principal Solutions Architect at AWSModern cloud applications enable companies to make informed decisions using real-time data from a variety of sources, including their own applications, AWS services, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Accessing all of this data can be challenging for developers because they need to write code to access the Application Programming Interface (API) for each application. As the number of applications in an enterprise increases, the number of point-to-point connections grows exponentially and becomes complex to manage. Many companies address this challenge by polling applications for data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. By Sandy Carter, VP, AWS Windows & Enterprise WorkloadsI speak to a lot of customers every week. They often ask me, “Why should I run my Windows workloads on AWS?” I love to quote our CEO, Andy Jassy, who says, “There is no compression algorithm for experience.” Customers have been running Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for over a decade. From that experience, we are able to optimize our platform and innovate on behalf of customers. AWS runs nearly twice as many Windows Server instances than the next largest ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Building off of momentum on AWS Educate’s Cloud Degree initiative from last year, including the launch of the 19-school California Cloud offering and the cloud degree launched last year with Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), AWS Educate has been working around the world to bring cloud opportunities to students from the US to the UK.The AWS Educate Cloud Degree initiative is a collaborative effort between AWS Educate and leading educational institutions to develop degrees and certificates in cloud computing that will prepare students from colleges, vocational schools, and technical academies for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A Commonwealth of Virginia initiative is now expanding to meet the demand for cybersecurity education across the country. The Virginia Cyber Range will offer its cybersecurity education services to educators, industry, and others, through a new offering named the U.S. Cyber Range of Virginia Tech.The U.S. Cyber Range will provide a cost-effective service for schools and businesses that are looking to provide cybersecurity education and training. Built primarily with academic users in mind, the U.S. Cyber Range supports courseware and hands-on environments for cybersecurity students. Small businesses and others are also welcome ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Part of an ongoing relationship between AWS and UBC, the CIC will provide students, staff, and faculty access to cloud technology to advance research projects, while employing Amazon’s innovation processes. The CIC is the first of its kind in Canada.The CIC will focus on issues of health and wellbeing and is officially called the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing CIC, powered by AWS. It will support student teams tackling ... Read More