Six best practices for building resilient higher-education applications on AWS

This article outlines six best practices for building resilient higher education applications on AWS, based on a five-year modernization partnership.

• Design multi-Region redundancy from day one using Route 53 and Application Recovery Controller
• Automate deployments with CI/CD pipelines to eliminate manual handoffs and reduce risk
• Embed security controls in Infrastructure as Code constructs for automatic compliance
• Treat cost as architectural concern; use serverless services for linear scaling
• Foster DevOps culture with top-down support and shared operational ownership
• Build observability across all Regions using CloudWatch and synthetic monitoring

Higher education institutions can future-proof applications by implementing these practices incrementally, starting with critical systems like enrollment and housing platforms.