Exploring Industry-Wide Cloud Advancements: A Review of AWS re:Invent 2023

On the heels of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 conference, let’s examine the relevance and potential impact of current and emerging cloud computing technologies on the higher education sector. Key Announcements and Innovations The conference offered a forum for discussing the latest developments in cloud computing, presenting a range of updates that could […]
AWS Imagine Conference Is True to Its Name

AWS holds an annual Imagine conference for forward-thinking institutional customers to discuss their strategic AWS successes. The conference is unusual because there is limited conversation about product details. Instead, it focuses on how innovative educators can leverage AWS technology and partnership to change their institutions, the higher education industry, and the world beyond education. In […]
How Higher Ed CIOs Can Leverage Cloud Service Providers for Strategic Gain

For some time, we have been talking about the trend of developing new commercial applications almost entirely in the cloud. Companies either host their older application code in the cloud or build cloud-native SaaS applications (or both in some cases). Higher education institutions have begun migrating to these new cloud applications, as have most industries, […]
AWS re:Invent Showcases the Pace of Cloud Innovation

AWS re:Invent 2020 was quite the show. As an all-virtual experience, AWS showed that it understands how to bring its speakers, especially its most senior leaders, to a virtual forum packed with the detail of what makes AWS special. As the industry leader in cloud platforms, it’s clear that AWS intends to keep that position, […]