The Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative modernization of two statewide digital platforms that support Texas’s early childhood education (ECE) ecosystem. Through its strategic migration to AWS, the institute improved system scalability, reduced operational overhead, and introduced intelligent automation that empowers more than 166,000 educators and administrators.

George Washington University (GW) has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its innovative use of AWS to amplify the capabilities of its high-performance computing (HPC) environment. By seamlessly integrating AWS with its on-premises Pegasus HPC system, GW has empowered researchers with greater flexibility, faster execution times, and access to advanced compute architectures. This is enabling cutting-edge research across scientific disciplines.

The Illinois Institute of Technology has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for reimagining the college admissions experience through a bold and forward-thinking use of AI and cloud technologies. By automating the traditionally manual transcript processing task using partner-built AI on AWS, the university has dramatically reduced evaluation timelines from weeks to just 24 hours. This has allowed the institution to unlock faster, more personalized engagement with prospective students.

Seattle University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its comprehensive cloud transformation initiative. By modernizing its entire IT infrastructure with AWS, the university has significantly improved flexibility, reduced operational complexity, and created a resilient, future-ready environment that enhances service delivery across campus.

St. John’s University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative efforts to modernize IT infrastructure, enhance operational agility, and bring AI-powered innovation to students and staff. By migrating a substantial portion of its on-premises environment to AWS, the university has built a resilient, cost-efficient cloud foundation that supports automation, remote learning, centralized reporting, and disaster recovery while also creating new opportunities for AI adoption across the institution.

The University of Delaware has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its pioneering use of AI to transform an archive of recorded lectures into an intelligent, interactive study companion. The initiative, led by the Academic Technology Services (ATS) team, introduced UD StudyAide, a generative AI-driven platform that connects concepts across disciplines and delivers personalized study tools to students, enriching how they engage with course content.

The University of St. Thomas has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its data modernization initiative that replaces siloed infrastructure with a unified, AI-ready data architecture. Leveraging a modern data mesh framework, the university is transforming how data is accessed, governed, and used to create a scalable foundation for integrations, business intelligence, automation, and AI innovation.

Vanderbilt University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its groundbreaking development of Amplify GenAI — an open-source, enterprise-grade generative AI platform that brings cost-effective, secure, and scalable AI access to thousands of users across the university. Built entirely on AWS infrastructure, the platform supports a wide variety of academic and administrative use cases, transforming how the university community engages with AI technology.