AWS Solutions for Education
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From K-12 to higher education and EdTech companies, the approach delivered by Rackspace Technology sets up education customers to successfully achieve their mission. We help deliver infrastructure optimization and modernization, enabling educational entities to run more efficiently, employ AI analytics and manage IT operations productively.
No matter where you are on your cloud journey — just starting out or cloud native — we have a wide range of solutions to accelerate and simplify your transformation, so you can stay focused on your core mission of helping students achieve more. Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), we provide guidance to help educational organizations achieve optimal outcomes on AWS — from productivity to cost savings.
Educational Use Cases
Most universities are fully enrolled, meaning classroom and lab space is at a premium. Most constraints are caused by physical workstations. Amazon WorkSpaces can solve this challenge by moving to a virtual desktop in the cloud. This can help ensure optimal configuration and lab use, so you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time creating innovative educational programs. WorkSpaces gives students the freedom to work on their environments inside or outside of the lab.
Easy access to the resources required to perform research enables teams to do their jobs more efficiently. When a research grant is awarded, the work can begin immediately, rather than waiting for hardware procurement. Also, the resources are only retained and managed for as long as the research is underway. For central and enterprise IT, the benefit is knowing that computing resources are being deployed according to their standards and that hardware is managed safely in the cloud rather than on a small server in a lab.
A pervasive problem throughout the education sector is aging hardware, including outdated hardware that vendors no longer support. This forces schools to try and manage unsupported hardware themselves or repurchase new, expensive hardware. Migrating to the cloud changes solves these challenges, making it easy to move from outdated technologies to a modern, cloud-based environment. Additional benefits also can include better performance, greater efficiency and significant cost savings.
Cal Poly expects to save $3.5 million over three years by migrating to the AWS Cloud.
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