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Congratulations are in order as 香蕉视频 has been named a 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Champion by the Center for Digital Government (CDG) and the Center for Digital Education (CDE). The award recognizes innovative and transformative uses of cloud computing.

“We are honored to be recognized as an AWS Champion in 2025. This award affirms the strategic investments we have made in modernizing our technology platforms to support innovation, agility and student engagement,” said Travis Nation, vice president for IT and Chief Information Officer. “From accelerating application development to enhancing campus services, the flexibility and scalability of AWS has enabled our teams to move faster, work smarter and deliver more impactful digital experiences for our university community.”

The award was presented to university representatives at a ceremony July 29 in Chicago. The annual CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards program honors organizations that demonstrate exceptional leadership in using cloud computing to deliver better, faster and more inclusive services in the public sector and education.

“AWS Champions represent innovative thought leaders in the public sector, where visionary leadership meets cutting-edge cloud technology,” said Kim Majerus, vice president of education and state and local government at AWS. “These organizations aren't satisfied with incremental improvements—they're fundamentally reimagining how government and education institutions can better serve their communities. Their achievements inspire others and showcase what's possible today.”

According to Michael Skiles, SU’s senior cloud engineer and manager, the university’s most notable achievements over the past year center on the adoption of cloud-native application architectures wherever possible.

“This shift in architectural philosophy has not only helped us reduce operational overhead and improve our development velocity but also has allowed us to invest in new applications and services while reducing SU’s overall cloud spend by approximately one-third,” said Skiles.

The university created a platform for rapid deployment of services, using a technology called containers, managed by Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). This platform, along with the adoption of several new serverless technologies, enabled SU to:

• Modernize Monitoring: Using a new system some aging services were replaced, allowing the university to see what’s happening with all our services in the cloud from a single place.
  
  
• Develop Knowledge SU Chatbot: Worked with four SU students to develop and launch Knowledge SU, an innovative university chatbot integrated with internal university services to enhance campus tech support and information accessibility.
  
  
• Modernize Applications: In collaboration with the Lemieux Library, moved an internally developed, locally hosted people counter application to run in Amazon EKS. This change has enabled the library's web developer to deliver feature enhancements more rapidly with minimal concern for infrastructure costs and scalability.
  
  
• Accelerate Development and Prototyping: Now that the SU team has the new EKS platform, it can prototype and experiment with new applications faster than ever before. Previously, configuring and deploying new applications could take weeks or even months, which meant that delivering functional demos and prototypes wasn't always feasible. Now, greater focus can be placed on open-source solutions and deliver prototypes to potential campus stakeholders within days and sometimes even hours of expressing interest.