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How Penn State built an all-in-one campus resource app on Modo Labs’ development platform using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, Pennsylvania State University ( Penn State ) began looking for a better way to meet the needs of its digital-native student population—specifically, a seamless way to connect students with on-campus resources. In addition, university organizations can use the app for campus events support. “We

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

During the CSP go-live event, AWS supported the launch through AWS Countdown , which offers architecture and scaling guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased.

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Cybersecurity: A Menu of State Priorities

GovLoop

To manage and recover from a cyber event, organizations need updated, coherent strategies — not faded handbooks pulled off a shelf. His office also has worked toward a whole-of-state security approach, as per a 2019 North Dakota law that gave the cyberteam command-and-control over cybersecurity in all branches of state government.

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City light shows: architectural lighting events

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Few cities have lighting master plans and even fewer address lighting as an element of special events and programming (" Philips changes name to Signify "). I've written about events like Glow in Georgetown DC, Dlectricity in Detroit, and Chestnut Hill's "Light of Night" in Philadelphia. 19 ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ).

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

This Lambda function processes the event, retrieves the user’s application Id, and sends two messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Steps 9 to 11 : a. A GraphQL mutation triggers an AWS AppSync request, which invokes the Initiate Application Brief Lambda function. import json import os import boto3 from boto3.dynamodb.conditions

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Evaluating long-term value in migrating ERP and SIS applications to AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2019, two separate hurricanes forced their data centers offline. Separately, the university experienced an increasing number of cybersecurity events, which culminated in a major event in Fall of 2022.

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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