Notes on the "Transforming Education in the Cloud" presentation.

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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
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Transforming Education in the Cloud
Sri Elaprolu, Manager, Solutions Architecture, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Wade Billings, Sr. Director of Global IT Shared Services, Instructure
Niranjan Nagar, Chief Technology Officer, Civitas Learning
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1,700
government
agencies
17,000 nonprofit
organizations
Adoption across public sector
4,500
educational
institutions

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Used by educational institutions worldwide

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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
Architected to meet enterprise security requirements

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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

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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

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 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

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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Transforming Education in the Cloud
Q. Wade Billings
Sr. Director of Global IT Shared Services, Instructure

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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

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SOFTWARE
PEOPLE SMARTER
to make
Instructure makes

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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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0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1,000
1,100
1,200
1,300
1,400
1,500
20152014201320122011
A story of growth

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Native Cloud Platform Ease Of Use
Foundation of Support
Our foundation

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Personalized Collaborative Teaching
& Learning Highly mobile
Deeply Engaged
More Data Knowledgeable LearnerAlways on
What shapes our mission

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On-premises
Unfriendly user experience
Immobile
Traditional enterprise
software business model
Cloud
Friendly, flexible experience
Mobile
Clear pricing model
YESTERDAY TODAY
Then and now

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• 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

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Choose your own adventure

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Vector Scaling Engine
Peak concurrent user
count: 216.1K
Number of production
clusters: 47
Number of servers
online at peak: 1700
Our technology

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400 ms
Average Page Load
99.9%
Availability
15 mins
MTTR
By the numbers

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Adoption
Rate
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Canvas
Competition
3%
(3 yrs)
20%
(18 mo)
Seattle Central
Community
College
14%
(4 yrs)
45%
(18 mo)
Clover Park
Technical
College
48%
(6 yrs)
69%
(10 mo)
Champlain
College
44%
(8 yrs)
80%
(6 mo)
Michigan Tech
University
33%
(3 yrs)
99%
(15 mo)
South Puget
Sound
Community
College
66%
(11 yrs)
85%
(12 mo)
Rivier
University
A success story …

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Insight, Action & Impact Analytics:
in Partnership
Niranjan Nagar, CTO, Civitas Learning

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The million more mission
Driving insight & action to help students
learn well and finish strong

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Bringing Data
TOGETHER
Accessible & shareable
Real-time
Speed to insight
Institution-specific
FOCUS
No best practices
Raise the floor & ceiling
Try, test & iterate
Building a
COMMUNITY
Centered around inquiry
Catalytic conversations
Benchmarking

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A D V I S O R

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F A C U L T Y

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For
Advisors
Actionable
Insights
CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORM
DATA 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

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AWS
CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORM
DATA 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)

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Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
AWS
CIVITAS LEARNING PLATFORM
DATA PROCESSING & VALIDATION + PREDICTIVE MODELING
LMS SIS CRM Assessments Admin
Partner
Systems
Extract Data
Securely Transfer Encrypted FilesAmazon S3 (Encrypted, Secure & Authenticated)

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Working with cloud-based
solution providers drives SPEED
TO VALUE for institutions

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Join the Movement.
Visit us at www.civitaslearningspace.com

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Thank You.
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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
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