By using Amazon AppStream 2.0, Fife School District’s students can now access applications from anywhere, anytime, on any device. Fife Public Schools in Washington aspires to be a top-tier learning organization in which all students are being prepared for college, career, and life. Fife School District provides a device for every kid in the district. While the kids automatically got access to some applications, there were certain programs they couldn’t access, especially those used in CTE (Careers in Technical Education) classes. In addition to providing equitable access using Amazon AppStream 2.0, the district turned labs back into learning spaces, which saved the district money it would have otherwise spent on building costs. 

Using AWS, TechSoup quickly and securely provides technology to nonprofits around the world. TechSoup offers a range of technology implementation and management services to nonprofits with diverse missions including promoting health and welfare, achieving medical breakthroughs, protecting wildlife, and many other causes. TechSoup is developing a cooperative technology platform using AWS technology that will allow the organization to better utilize its data and allow nonprofits to learn from each other.

By moving to the AWS Cloud, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) reduced the costs of maintenance and pushed its IT teams to be more creative. ICMEC's mission is to eradicate child abduction, sexual abuse, and exploitation. ICMEC created the GMCNgine, a centralized platform that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Amazon Rekognition to scour the internet for photos of children to compare against images from ongoing cases of missing children from across the globe. The results provide law enforcement and NGOs with leads on the possible whereabouts of missing children.

By using AWS, Global Citizen can rapidly develop its platform and serve millions of users around the globe. Global Citizen mobilizes individuals and communities with the goal of ending global poverty by 2030. From emailing world leaders to fund girls’ education to signing a petition to end famine and starvation in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria, Global Citizen enables people around the world to stand up for human rights (the organization's hashtag is: #StandUp4HumanRights). Global Citizen’s ability to aggregate and magnify the collective voice of its member network has proven effective in putting pressure on governments, politicians, policymakers, and corporations to enact change.

By using AWS, GlobalGiving can scale up to meet demands and geographically distribute its servers to make sure its website loads quickly around the world. GlobalGiving is one of the largest global crowdfunding communities connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country in the world. GlobalGiving is all in on AWS with 100 percent of its web traffic powered by AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon ES, Amazon ElasticCache, Amazon S3, and Amazon Aurora. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has raised more than $295M from more than 700,000 people in more than 170 countries. 

Using the AWS Cloud, researchers at the Urban Institute can experiment and learn with new research possibilities and fewer constraints. The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based policy research organization dedicated to developing evidence-based insights that improve decision making, strengthen communities, and make people’s lives better. As a leader in data-driven policy research, the Urban Institute was looking for a solution that would enable it to run sophisticated data analytics and microsimulation models with flexibility, speed, and accuracy. The Urban Institute chose a cloud-first strategy starting with AWS.

Saint Louis University (SLU) is the first university to bring virtual personal assistants into every student residence on its campus and to equip them with a private, SLU-specific skill using Alexa for Business. SLU placed more than 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in residence hall rooms and student apartments in the fall of 2018. The SLU skill—built by N-Powered and deployed through Alexa for Business to all Alexa-enabled devices on campus—provides instant answers to more than 100 custom questions, including: “What time does the library close tonight?” and “Where is the registrar’s office?”

Echo360 provides an active learning platform that schools and students can use on-campus or as a distance-learning application. The company uses AWS to store, manage, deliver and archive the content on its platform. Running on AWS allows the company to scale globally and reliably as two million students across 650 schools in 30 countries use the platform. Taking advantage of dynamic scaling and other AWS efficiencies enables Echo360 to deliver the learning platform to schools at 30 percent less than an on-premises solution.

De Persgroep is a Belgian media company with operations in publishing, broadcasting and digital media. As the media landscape changes, the company is undertaking a digital transformation to focus on its business rather than managing its infrastructure. Watch Tim Bogart, chief technology officer at De Persgroep, discuss how migrating to AWS has enabled the company to experiment with new technologies and speed up time-to-market without upfront costs.

RedAwning used AWS to transform its contact center operations, enabling better customer service, an improved employee experience, and greater scalability—all while lowering costs 80 percent. RedAwning is the world’s largest supplier of vacation rentals to consumers and online booking sites with more than 140,000 properties in 10,000 locations. The company uses Amazon Connect contact center as a service; Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly to enable a custom virtual agent that interacts naturally with customers; and AWS Lambda for looking up customer information.