Jonathan Jeuken – [email protected] - +31 (0)6 30 66 28 59 Caroline Decalf – decalfc@.com - +34 671741218

1 What is OCRE for AWS?

• EU compliant Framework agreement for Education, Research and affiliates • Contracted across 40 countries in Europe and Middle East supported by NREN in each country • Contracts provide access to infrastructure, professional services and managed services at pre- approved pricing • No public tender requirements

2 AWS for Higher Education & Research

Caroline Decalf – Luxembourg Public Sector 5.11.2021

© 2020, , Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon Confidential and Trademark What is ?

The on-demand delivery of IT resources over public or private networks with zero up-front costs, no long-term contracts, and pay-as-you-go pricing

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Traditional IT as a fixed cost model

Traditional IT

Capacit y

School IT Needs Tim © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. e Why are EDU & Research customers adopting cloud computing?

Time to Science Secure Increase Speed & Agility Access research A collection of tools to Easily add or remove capacity infrastructure in minutes protect data and privacy

Globally Accessible Scalable Easily collaborate with Low Cost Stop guessing capacity researchers around the world Pay-as-you-go pricing

6 © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. What sets AWS apart?

Security Fine-grained control

Service Breadth & Depth; Pace of Innovation 175+ services to support any cloud workload; rapid customer driven releases

Experience Building and managing cloud since 2006

Global Footprint 69 Availability Zones within 22 geographic regions, 216 points of presence in 84 cities across 42 countries

Pricing Philosophy 80 proactive price reductions to date

More machine learning happens on AWS than anywhere else Machine Learning Machine learning in the hands of every developer and data scientist

Ecosystem Tens of thousands of partners; 7,000+ AWS Marketplace products

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS recognized as a cloud leader for the 10th consecutive year

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure , Worldwide, Raj Bala, Bob Gill, Dennis Smith, David Wright, August 2020. ID G00365830. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Gartner logo is a trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS: education & research

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Note: Includes Windows instances deployed in the public cloud IaaS market during 2017 Source: IDC estimates, 2018

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Opportunities for the cloud beyond infrastructure

Innovation Through IT Transformation

Student Engagement With Voice Research Labs/ Genomics

Classrooms and Machine Learning/ Curriculum Analytics

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS initiatives for education & research

AWS Educate & AWS Academy

AWS Credits for Research

No-cost online AWS training pathway for researchers and research IT Resources for researchers who want to work remotely

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Education is built on AWS

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. University of Notre Dame

• Cloud first strategy and implementation

• 40% cost savings in annual IT operations

• 1M+ savings in data backups

• Easily scale IT infrastructure to needs

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Image Source: iStock “Cloud Computing is an essential part of modern research. A streamlined operating model for using cloud services will benefit all of our research”

Patrick Grant, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Oxford

India is establishing a Quantum Genomics England developed a Computing Applications Lab to support platform to provide researchers with a government’s science and access to genomic data from within technology mission at a country level their highly secure environment, allowing them to collaborate and find new insights quickly on COVID-19

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Thank you!

© 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Premier Consulting Partner

Top talent backed by recognized expertise 2,800+ Premier AWS technical certifications worldwide Consulting Partner Leader with expertise across 15 competencies Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Migration Workloads Infrastructure Professional and Data & Analytics Oracle Workloads Managed Services, Worldwide 3,200+ DevOps Machine Learning Healthcare Industrial Software AWS accreditations worldwide IoT Retail Education SaaS Storage Financial Services A lot of the heavy lifting of Travel & Hospitality moving enterprises to the cloud is being done by 15 [companies] that have … realized AWS competencies 10+ what the future was. These are AWS service delivery designations companies like Rackspace Amazon CloudFront AWS CloudFormation Technology… [and] Onica. Amazon DynamoDB AWS Database Migration 85+ Amazon EC2 for Service Windows Server AWS IoT Core Andy Jassy, AWS CEO professional certifications Amazon EMR AWS Lambda Amazon RDS AWS Server Migration Amazon Redshift Service

18 What does bring to the framework? The combined power of Rackspace Technology and AWS for Education & Research

Commercial clout Making it easy Technical support Operational support

• Improved commercials meaning • If transitioning your spend from a • Access to FoC presales consulting • Access to Support Services for reduction in costs previous supplier, Rackspace Operational support (both Service Technology can assume existing • Access to Rackspace Technology Blocks and AWS support) • Giving big and small clients the management/payer accounts Professional Services and opportunity to be part of a large (subject to validated requirement) Transformation Services • All resale includes Optimiser+ procurement structure or multiple linked/payee accounts from your existing reseller without • Access to all AWS services needing to redeploy the (including funding programs) environments running within them

19