Instructors, students, researchers, IT staff, and administrators in higher education need flexible technology that supports all modes of work and study. Institutions, including University College London, London School of Economics, and Oxford University, choose AWS to modernise their systems and provide improved, personalised education—using data.

Schools and colleges can reduce risk, improve digital equity, and free themselves of the distractions of managing infrastructure with the AWS Cloud. From back-end data management to virtual desktops, schools and colleges rely on AWS to ensure the continuity of teaching and learning.

Teaching, learning, and assessing have to continue, no matter where staff and students are. See how AWS can help you blend in-person engagement with virtual collaboration to achieve flexible learning while reducing downtime and disruption and looking after student wellbeing.

Time to science should be fast, but technology across research projects will vary. With the flexibility and economics of the AWS Cloud, you can balance costs with faster data processing. You only pay for what you need, and can run complex jobs off-peak to access even cheaper rates.

Digital learning tools and compute-intense apps—much like education itself—should be available to everyone. See how you can use AWS solutions to democratise secure and scalable remote learning to ensure everyone has the skills they need to find employment after education.

Online security expert National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued advice to UK schools, colleges, and universities to counter a rise in cyberattacks. Institutions need to have a sufficient security strategy in place, and the cloud has proven to be an effective way to prevent and recover from cyberattacks.

Migrate any digital education workload, including applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers, and even entire data centres, from your institution’s on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other cloud platforms to AWS.

Scale to meet demand or add extra services when you want to automate calls and analyse recordings, with Amazon Connect for your contact centre and university clearing needs.

Widen access to student and staff applications across Macs, Chromebooks, or PCs with Amazon AppStream 2.0. Reduce dependency on computer labs and stream even your most resource intensive applications, such as 3D design or mathematical modelling, direct to students’ devices.

Mitigate cyberattacks and guard against theft of intellectual property. AWS combines security features such as data encryption, multifactor authentication and virtual private networks (VPN) to protect education institutions, their staff, students, and intellectual property.