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The future of digital government in the cloud
Tshwane University of Technology
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Tshwane University of Technology (TUTEH) is in the Soshanguve township of Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. Many students from lower income families rely on support from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), part of which goes towards student accommodation.
To ensure the funds from NSFAS—which amounted to R30 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2018—are well spent and the accommodation is safe for students, the university accredits all properties. But profiling the thousands of dwellings, maintaining records of compliant and non-compliant owners, and connecting landlords to students were time-intensive tasks. Data was dispersed, and it was hard for administrators to keep records up to date.
In 2019, TUTEH turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a cloud-based platform to make it simpler to manage properties. AWS Professional Services worked with the TUTEH IT team over a period of 20 days to deliver T-RES, a serverless cloud platform for property administration.
The platform uses AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway for computation logic and request routing, and Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Simple Storage Service for hosting and storage. Notifications to students are delivered via Amazon Simple Email Service. Developers use AWS Control Tower to codify a multi-account strategy, with each TUTEH IT team member working in an individual developer sandbox. AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodePipeline enable a cross-account continuous integration and deployment pipeline, distilling TUTEH’s software development lifecycle stages with an AWS CodeCommit source.
Building T-RES on the AWS Cloud, TUTEH is streamlining administration. It makes it easier for landlords to promote their properties, while giving students a platform through which they can raise concerns over accommodation. This, in turn, helps TUTEH identify low-quality dwellings and ensure NSFAS funds are better spent. The highly available T-RES platform is making the lives of the students easier because they no longer have to worry about accommodation and can stay focused on their studies.
Nicholas Motsatse, CEO of TUTEH, says: “This happened at the right time in our journey with AWS. Looking at the suite of services that AWS offers, I was comfortable about our choice of cloud provider.”
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