Renaissance Learning is a global leader in the pre-K–12 education technology (EdTech) space. Renaissance delivers its products to 16 million students across the world, and its digital solutions are used in more than one-third of US schools and 100-plus countries. As part of its cloud consolidation strategy, Renaissance decided to migrate DnA, its standards-based assessment creation and administration solution, from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend ..read more

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836, Emory has nine academic divisions and is known for its scholarly engagement across the humanities, social and natural sciences, medical disciplines, and high scientific performance and citation impact. In 2022, Emory launched the AI.Humanity initiative to explore the societal impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and influence its future development to serve humanity. Over the next few years, the initiative intends to recruit up to 60 new faculty, create a community of scholars, develop AI-focused educat ..read more

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has recently captured widespread attention, and for good reason. This emerging technology has the potential to transform customer experiences, create novel applications, help people reach new levels of productivity, and much more. In fact, according to research from Goldman Sachs, generative AI could drive a 7 percent—or almost $7 trillion—increase in global GDP and lift worker productivity by 1.5 percentage points over a 10-year period. Applications and user experiences are poised to be reinvented with generative AI, and the public sector is no excepti ..read more

This is a guest post written by a digital department lead for the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the largest government departments in the UK, with more than 90,000 employees in more than 800 locations. It’s responsible for making $266 billion in payments each year. The DWP is carrying out a large-scale digital transformation to improve our services and the way we interact with citizens, and we continue to evolve and digitize our organization. We faced a common challenge for public sector organizations: How to hire, trai ..read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) supports customers who must adhere to several security and compliance requirements, including: US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Department of Defense (DOD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Workloads that don’t adhere to these compliance requirements can be deployed in the AWS standard partition. A partition is a group of Regions and the AWS standard partition encompasses commercial AWS Regions. AWS G ..read more

Protective DNS services, commonly known as PDNS, are a go-to solution if you’re aiming to bolster the security of your infrastructure from the ground up. Unlike traditional methods involving software-based agents or devices for traffic filtering, PDNS services take a unique approach – they scrutinise the DNS requests made by users and adjust responses based on predefined rules within the service. This proactive strategy not only secures networks at a foundational level, but also hinders potential attacks from gaining traction in the first place. Additionally, PDNS services offer real-time vis ..read more

Latin America (LATAM) has tremendous opportunity to fulfill its highest potential through empowering its citizens with the latest technologies, including generative artificial intelligence (AI), to make the most impact for its communities to thrive. I’m curious, like many of you, about the opportunities technology provides in LATAM. Andrés Tahta, managing director for LATAM public sector industry sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS), is an inspirational trailblazer who has devoted his career to uniquely solving tough problems with the power of technology. Andrés embraces the diversity among his ..read more

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci called health misinformation “the enemy of pandemic control.” Around the US, public health officials are grappling with how to keep their communities safe from the potentially deadly effects of medical misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. Misinformation is false or inaccurate information spread in error, regardless of intent. Disinformation is misinformation that is knowingly or intentionally spread by bad actors. Malinformation is information based on fact but purposely taken out of con ..read more

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations. These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources. Comprehensive knowledge of critical infrastructure and real-time updates to assets and critical end-use loads drives the need for an agile data model capable of integrating ..read more

Education leaders are eager for solutions to the difficulties facing schools across the country. With strained local resources impacting educators, it is more critical than ever for the education community to adapt and evolve to meet student needs and address challenges. Educators know that more resources can help provide personalized approaches that better address students’ individual learning needs. With many constraints and demands on local budgets, getting additional resources can be difficult—forcing educators to do more with less. To help a limited number of teachers and administrators ..read more