AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Transforming Education in the Cloud

Sri Elaprolu, Manager, Solutions Architecture, Worldwide Public Sector, AWSWade Billings, Sr. Director of Global IT Shared Services, InstructureNiranjan Nagar, Chief Technology Officer, Civitas Learning

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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

1,700 government

agencies

17,000 nonprofit organizations

Adoption across public sector

4,500 educational institutions

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Used by educational institutions worldwide

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

http://aws.amazon.com/security

Certifications and accreditations for workloads that matter

AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config - Call logging and configuration management for governance & compliance

• Log, review, alarm on all AWS API actions

• Browse and query database of current and previous state of cloud resources

MTCS

Architected to meet enterprise security requirements

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Add new dev environment

Add new prod environment

Add new disaster recovery (DR)

environment on West Coast

Add 100 servers for enrollment

Remove 100 servers after enrollment

Deploy 10,000 core HPC clusters

Shut down 10,000 core HPC clusters

AWS:Infrastructure in minutes

Old world:Infrastructure in weeks

Everything changes with this kind of agility

Research & innovation can’t afford to be slow

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

On-premises

Experiment infrequently

Failure is expensive

Less innovation

Experiment often

Fail quickly at a low cost

More innovation

$ Millions Nearly $0

Culture of innovation: experiment often & fail without risk

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Development and test University and departmental websites Learning/course management systems Distance learning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) High performance computing (HPC) Storage and backup Data archival/Collaboration Disaster recovery Student information system software Virtual desktops Data center migrations Student lab environments

Education use cases on AWS

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Transforming Education in the Cloud

Q. Wade BillingsSr. Director of Global IT Shared Services, Instructure

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

A story of disruption

· Founded 2008· Launched product in 2011· HQ in Salt Lake City· 550+ employees worldwide· 1200+ K12, HE, and Business clients· 100% native SaaS

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

SOFTWAREPEOPLE SMARTER

to make

Instructure makes

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

2011 2012 2013 2014

Blackboard 50.6% 44.8% 41.6% 40.4%

Moodle 19.2% 20.1% 23.3% 21.3%

Canvas 1.2% 4.6% 8% 12.6%

D2L 10.1% 11.4% 11.8% 10.6%

Sakai 7.1% 6.1% 4.9% 4.3%

LMS higher ed market share evolution

Campus Computing Results

A market ripe for disruption

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A story of growth

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Native Cloud Platform Ease Of Use

Foundation of Support

Our foundation

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Personalized Collaborative Teaching & Learning

Highly mobile

Deeply Engaged More Data Knowledgeable LearnerAlways on

What shapes our mission

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

On-premises

Unfriendly user experience

Immobile

Traditional enterprise software business model

Cloud

Friendly, flexible experience

Mobile

Clear pricing model

YESTERDAY TODAY

Then and now

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

• Annual, Public Security Audits • Monthly Security Scans• Private Bug Bounty Program• Critical issues closed in < 24 hours• Heartbleed closed in 12 hours• SOC2 Type I certified• SOC2 Type II expected Q4 2015

Security is sort of an obsession

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Choose your own adventure

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Vector Scaling Engine

Peak concurrent user count: 216.1K

Number of production clusters: 47

Number of servers online at peak: 1700

Our technology

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

400 msAverage Page Load

99.9%Availability

15 minsMTTR

By the numbers

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AdoptionRate

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%

Canvas

Competition

3%(3 yrs)

20%(18 mo)

Seattle CentralCommunity

College

14%(4 yrs)

45%(18 mo)

Clover ParkTechnicalCollege

48%(6 yrs)

69%(10 mo)

ChamplainCollege

44%(8 yrs)

80%(6 mo)

Michigan TechUniversity

33%(3 yrs)

99%(15 mo)

South PugetSound

CommunityCollege

66%(11 yrs)

85%(12 mo)

RivierUniversity

A success story …

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Insight, Action & Impact Analytics:in Partnership

Niranjan Nagar, CTO, Civitas Learning

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

The million more missionDriving insight & action to help students

learn well and finish strong

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Bringing Data

TOGETHER

Accessible & shareable

Real-time

Speed to insight

Institution-specific

FOCUSNo best practices

Raise the floor & ceiling

Try, test & iterate

Building a

COMMUNITY

Centered around inquiry

Catalytic conversations

Benchmarking

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

A D V I S O R

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

F A C U L T Y

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

For F

acul

ty

For

Advi

sors

ActionableInsights

CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORMDATA PROCESSING & VALIDATION + PREDICTIVE MODELING

LMS SIS CRM Assessments Admin

Insights Action

Partner Systems

New Apps

Third Party Apps

Plan Engage

Extract & Encrypt Data or Setup VPN Access

Securely Transfer Encrypted Files

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS

CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORMDATA PROCESSING & VALIDATION + PREDICTIVE MODELING

LMS SIS CRM Assessments Admin

Partner Systems

Extract & Encrypt Data or Setup VPN Access

Securely Transfer Encrypted Files

Extract Data

Securely Transfer Encrypted FilesAmazon S3 (Encrypted, Secure & Authenticated)

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

AWS

CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORMDATA PROCESSING & VALIDATION + PREDICTIVE MODELING

LMS SIS CRM Assessments Admin

Partner Systems

Extract Data

Securely Transfer Encrypted FilesAmazon S3 (Encrypted, Secure & Authenticated)

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

Working with cloud-based soluti on providers drives SPEED

TO VALUE for insti tuti ons

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Join the Movement.Visit us at

www.civitaslearningspace.com

AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015

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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015