Category: HAQM WorkSpaces

To understand how migrating to AWS can help educational institutions meet their sustainability goals, we first need to unpack the environmental impact of IT operations. That means examining the actual carbon math behind IT and where emissions really come from.

When Siriraj Medical Research Center planned their “Nanopore workshop: bacterial genome bioinformatics series” for more than 60 researchers, they faced a common challenge: how to provide consistent, high-performance computing environments for complex genomic analyses. AWS offered the solution through HAQM WorkSpaces, transforming how Siriraj Medical Research Center delivers hands-on bacterial genomics training.

Pathologists have been looking at morphological patterns in patients’ tissue sections highlighted by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining for more than a century. However, as the pathology transformation from glass slides to digital imaging gains momentum, it opens the door to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to complement expert assessment with quantitative measurements to enable data-driven medicine. Yet, challenges remain with handling digital imaging files such as storage and pre-processing prior to application of AI tools. Genomics England have utilised HAQM Web Services (AWS) and tools such as HAQM SageMaker to demonstrate how to prepare digital pathology images for research and the development of machine learning models.

HAQM Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience. 

The nonprofit American Forests is focused on advancing social equity with a national reforestation movement. Trees provide significant benefits against heat related illnesses and climate change, and trees can help advance social equity when they are planted in the neighborhoods that need them the most. But the challenge of achieving Tree Equity across the country is immense. To address this, American Forests is leading a new national campaign through the Tree Equity Score, powered by the HAQM Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

With a recent feature release, HAQM Web Services (AWS) customers can now use CAC/PIV cards when using HAQM WorkSpaces to access government systems. HAQM WorkSpaces is a desktop as a service solution that helps users access all of their desktop applications from anywhere. This feature supports pre-session and in-session authentication.

For community organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions seeking to support a distributed workforce, citizenry, or student body with cloud capabilities, HAQM Web Services (AWS) has developed an online virtual booth to highlight remote work, learning, and call center use cases for the public sector. Learn how to connect your remote employees, constituents, or students on AWS by playing the AWS Cloud Champion: Virtual Workplace Interactive Challenge.

Reporting on HAQM WorkSpaces, a managed, secure desktop as a service (DaaS) solution, allows you to capture information about your HAQM WorkSpaces deployment and the relationships to Active Directory users. It helps capture important details that can help with chargeback, general utilization of HAQM WorkSpaces, and confirming consistency of what is deployed in your environment.

With the increase in remote work and education, government, education, and nonprofit organizations, are adopting virtual desktop solutions like HAQM WorkSpaces. Large scale deployments of virtual desktop solutions can decrease administrative burden and save time. In this post, you can learn how to deploy HAQM WorkSpaces with less engineering effort by leveraging a PowerShell script.

American University of Bahrain (AUBH) turned to HAQM WorkSpaces for their desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solution. Using HAQM WorkSpaces, AUBH runs Windows workloads, such as Windows Office 365 and Windows OneDrive, to create a flexible learning environment for students. Since using HAQM WorkSpaces, AUBH has increased the flexibility in how and where students can learn.