AWS in Canada's Public Sector
Thousands of government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations across Canada use AWS to deliver better services and drive innovation.
With over 6,500 government, education, nonprofit and healthcare organizations using AWS, we understand the unique needs of Canada’s public sector. AWS partners with you directly to navigate cloud procurement and migration. Our Canada Region infrastructure lets you store data in-country, addressing data residency and compliance requirements. And our network of Canadian data centres isolates and protects your data from disaster events. Across Canada, public sector leaders choose AWS for security, reliability, and cost savings. Join us, and benefit from more than 200 services that can accelerate your digital transformation.
What's new
How AWS is powering Canada’s public sector COVID response
Watch AWS Public Sector Summit sessions on demand
Catch the highlights from AWS’ largest annual public sector summit, or dive deep and build your knowledge. Hear the latest updates about new AWS services, learn from public sector organizations, and develop the skills to design, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure and applications.
Amazon Connect Contact Centres: Powering Superior Customer Service at Lower Cost
Across Canada, public sector organizations choose Amazon Connect’s contact centre because
it’s easy to set up, use, and scale. From government agencies to nonprofit associations, Amazon Connect drives better experiences for citizens, contact centre agents, and managers.
Enabling security, interoperability, and discovery in healthcare with the cloud
How can Canadian healthcare organizations leverage AWS to better serve patients and meet their mission? Learn how healthcare providers across the country are using the AWS Cloud to keep patient information secure, achieve interoperability, and speed time to science.
Canada public sector industry segments
Healthcare
Hospitals, research institutes, local care providers, and healthtech leaders.
AWS DigiGov
AWS DigiGov is a two-day pilot program designed for government employees to learn about cloud computing, cloud value proposition, use cases, and the different services offered by AWS.
AWS Educate
AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning. With the increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals.
AWS Academy
AWS Academy helps prepare university students for industry-recognized certifications and high-demand cloud jobs through in-class instruction, hands-on labs, online knowledge assessments, and project work.
AWS Training and Certification
AWS Training and Certification hosts events, both online and in person, that help the builders of today and tomorrow leverage the power of the AWS Cloud. Whether you’re building foundational cloud knowledge or diving deep in a technical area, join AWS experts for an event that meets your goals.
AWS Cloud Credits for Research
The AWS Cloud Credits for Research Program supports researchers who seek to: Build cloud-hosted, publicly available, science-as-a-service applications, software, or tools to advance their research and that of their community; Perform proof-of-concept or benchmark tests evaluating the efficacy of moving research workloads or open datasets to the cloud; And train a broader community on the usage of cloud for research workloads via workshops or tutorials.
Customer Success Stories
See how public sector customers in Canada are using AWS today.
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Government
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Education
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Healthcare
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Nonprofits
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Government
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Using AWS, the Government of Ontario makes information and services accessible to over 14 million people in Canada’s largest province.
Learn how this federal government department uses AWS to preserve Canada’s documentary heritage, which includes 20 million publications and 30 million photographic images.
The Government of Canada’s Communications Security Establishment and the University of New Brunswick use AWS to drive innovative cybersecurity research.
Learn how the town of Milton was able to improve traffic flows by launching a solution hosted on AWS—all within four weeks.
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Education
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By innovating faster using AWS, D2L builds better software that empowers their education sector customers to do what they care most about: transforming the learning experience.
The University of British Columbia has partnered with AWS to establish the first university-based Cloud Innovation Centre in Canada, providing students, staff, and faculty access to cloud technology to advance projects, along with employing Amazon’s innovation processes.
Athabasca University has helped increase access to education for rural and international learners by moving its content management platform to AWS.
Learn how Humber College used AWS to move 30,000 students to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, in under 10 business days.
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Healthcare
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By migrating to AWS, the Canadian Institute for Health Information improved the agility and performance of its data processing infrastructure, while reducing costs.
Learn how Ontario’s Grand River Hospital built the first AWS healthcare data lake in Canada, housing sensitive patient and administrative data while it retired its legacy hospital information systems.
AlayaCare is “all in” on the AWS cloud: The health tech leader uses AWS services to deliver better remote patient monitoring and other end-to-end solutions for care providers.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information is providing enhanced hybrid access to electronic health records through AWS PrivateLink.
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Nonprofits
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By moving their infrastructure to AWS, The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) was able achieved over 75% savings within the first 3 months.
Canadian Pharmacists Assocation is using AWS to expand their digital presence through a variety of digital tools.
Jour de la Terre chose to shift its IT infrastructure to AWS to improve control and insight without sacrificing agility and flexibility—and without incurring the expense of staffing an IT department.
DonorPerfect transitioned to AWS two years ago to provide a scalable and elastic infrastructure for its nonprofit clients.
Getting started
Leverage the latest cloud technologies to build a resilient organization
Get to know the AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Center
Whether you're already on AWS or planning to migrate your first workload to the AWS Cloud, you can use these tools to improve automation and save on your cloud deployment: webinars on-demand, eBook, Cloud Assessment Readiness Tool, and more.
Best Practices for Cloud Database Migration
Learn about the full lifecycle of database migrations to the AWS Cloud, while taking into consideration performance, system scalability, data security, and database maintenance requirements.
Guide to Digital Transformation with the Cloud
The one stop shop for digital transformation guidance including guides, checklists, frameworks, and more.
Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Reference Guide to Data Lifecycle and Analytics
Data is an organization’s most valuable asset. Learn how to prepare, process, and analyze your data in the AWS Cloud to improve decision-making.
AWS Cloud Champion
Play a gamified tutorial on working, teaching, and engaging remotely. Learn about different capabilities for online meetings, cloud-based contact centers, and virtual desktops.
Enhancing Your Contact Center with Amazon Connect for the Public Sector
Learn about some of our public sector customer success stories, partner solutions, and best practices for using Amazon Connect.
AWS Partners
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for AWS. It is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.
Why become an APN Partner?
As an APN Partner, you will receive business, technical, sales, and marketing resources to help enable you to grow your business and better support your customers. Join the APN and take advantage of numerous APN Partner programs to differentiate your business and connect with customers on AWS. Learn more about the benefits of being an APN Partner below.
If you are an APN Partner who does business with government, education, or nonprofit organizations, learn more about the benefits of becoming an AWS Public Sector Partner.
Why work with an APN Public Sector Partner?
APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of all the business benefits that AWS has to offer. With their deep expertise on AWS, APN Public Sector Partners are uniquely positioned to help your organization at any stage of your cloud adoption journey, and to help you achieve your business objectives. Find an APN Public Sector Partner today.
AWS Public Sector Competency Partners
The APN features best-of-breed technology providers and consulting partners that offer public sector organizations a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.
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