Tag Archive: Amazon Web Services

ApplyUC’s Successful, Super-fast Migration to AWS

Screenshot of UC Application

By Judy Thai. ApplyUC is the online web application that students use to apply for admission to the University of California’s nine undergraduate campuses. In 2020, UC dropped the requirement for standardized test scores like the SAT and ACT, and…
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Updated UC-wide agreement with Amazon Web Services provides improved discounts

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By Thomas Trappler. UC Systemwide Procurement is pleased to announce a new UC-wide Private Pricing Addendum (PPA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Effective January 1, 2023, this Addendum increases and extends existing discounts as detailed below.  These improvements are the result…
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Data Management in AWS: A UC Collaboration Success Story

RDMS team members in top photo from left: Hooman Pejman, Susan Whitney, Leena Patil, Eric Odell, Nilofeur Samuel, Satish Pasupuleti, Swapnil Kamble (kneeling), Anyi Zheng, Vijay Alluri, Sameer Karki, Hima Patlolla, Carlos Garrido-Ramirez, and Emily Weaver. Team members not shown are Surendra Gade and Sundar Thiru.

By Susan Whitney. I want to tell the story how a systemwide group successfully delivered a complex, well-architected, cross-functional team solution, on time, and within budget. In 18 months, we re-architected and migrated the UCOP Risk Services Data Management System…
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Moving UCPath from a Managed Hosting Service to the AWS Cloud

By John Ruzicka. Last July, UC’s largest-ever business transformation initiative concluded, with all UC locations now live in a single payroll system called UCPath. This was a multi-year project involving teams at the UC Office of the President (UCOP)…
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Kubernetes in the Cloud: UCSD Explores Containers

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By Stoyan Stoyanov. No doubt about it…containers are great! Whereas it could take days (or even weeks!) to provision a physical server, containers allow developers to spin up an application server in a matter of minutes. Containers let development teams…
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AI Enables Rapid COVID-19 Lung Imaging Analysis at UCSD Health

Chest X-rays from a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia, original x-ray (left) and AI-for-pneumonia result (right). Patient has a pacemaker device and an enlarged heart, which indicates that the AI algorithm is powerful enough to work even when the patient has underlying health issues.

By Heather Buschman, PhD. For most patients who have died of COVID-19, the pandemic disease caused by a novel coronavirus, the ultimate cause of death was pneumonia, a condition in which inflammation and fluid buildup make it difficult to breathe….
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Top 5 UC IT Stories for 2019

UC IT staff wait in line to register for UCTech 2019

By Mark Cianca and Yvonne Tevis. Diversity and Inclusion Get the Spotlight The UC IT community is focusing on diversity from all angles. A new “Diversifying the IT Culture” track boasted 16 sessions at our big annual UC Tech…
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