Modernise your online learning experience with AWS
summary
Deploys Moodle on Fargate with infrastructure-as-code via AWS CDK/CloudFormation, uses Amazon RDS, EFS, ElastiCache and CloudFront, and integrates video via BigBlueButton + Scalelite, AppStream for remote labs, Elemental MediaConvert for adaptive VOD, and Rekognition for basic proctoring. Reference code and one‑click VOD workflow live on GitHub; benchmarks claim Fargate can start ~500 tasks/min. A Malaysian deployment serving 116k students drops monthly downtime from ~3% to 0 and cuts costs ~13%, and a live demo is available.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:23Emerging trends in the new world of education
- 5:11The flexible learning experience in the modern world of education
- 8:25What our education customers are asking
- 11:30AWS services for education
- 14:18Integrated online classroom experience
- 18:36Moodle deployment options on AWS
- 26:26Live classroom experience
- 27:32Reference architecture with BigBlueButton
- 30:05On-demand learning video with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
- 37:24Key takeaways
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