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Bahrain’s cloud-first success story

AWS Public Sector Blog

Through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation. It set the groundwork for economic sustainability through technology-driven innovation. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center.

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Helping micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises make economic and societal impacts with cloud technologies

AWS Public Sector Blog

From addressing disparities in access to quality healthcare, to fostering sustainability, our customers and partners are using technology to address some of the world’s biggest issues. In agriculture, cloud-enabled MSMEs are using cloud technology to develop data-driven and more efficient agricultural practices to help address food shortages.

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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

With this data, we challenged tech app startups to develop new ways to make our roads safer and smarter during roadworks. Over a 10-week period in 2019, TfL’s team fielded proposals for the RoadLab programme to cut congestion.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

They still occasionally update their Fortran development practices. When these systems are stable, well-documented, and still actively developed, there is no reason to read the word ‘legacy’ as a pejorative.” By adopting a frugal discipline, they continue to innovate sustainably.

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Don’t Wait to Modernize: A Q&A on Preparing for The MGT Reform Act

Government Technology Insider

Its allowing agencies to be more intentional, to create sustainable, forward-looking technology that truly supports mission-critical goals, and it supports bold, creative solutions to pursue big ideas and innovations rather than just incremental changes. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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United Arab Emirates Space Agency and AWS sign agreement to support long-term growth in the region’s space ecosystem 

AWS Public Sector Blog

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a Statement of Strategic Intent and Cooperation that is designed to support the creation of a vibrant, sustainable, competitive, and innovative space sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Emirati – AWS Talent for Space Program (EATS).