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AWS expands program offering low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns and committees

AWS Public Sector Blog

To support their effective security and management, election campaigns and committees need access to the latest industry-leading security services and resources, regardless of their budget. Wickr fills that need and we greatly appreciate their partnership.”

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Lessons learned from Intelsat’s successful domain migration with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Intelsat expanded its service offerings with the acquisition of Gogo Commercial Aviation in 2020 and subsequently integrated Gogo to create Intelsat Commercial Aviation. Furthermore, the high level of interdependency between applications required a DNS change and migration strategy for each AWS resource type.

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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In fact, PHAs typically spend the entirety of their voucher funds by basing the number of vouchers they can issue to account for the estimated share of recipients who won’t successfully use their vouchers. To be clear, lower success rates do not mean that housing agencies are not fully deploying federal resources.

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High Inflation, a Looming Recession, and the Necessity of Federal Assistance

NLC (National League of Cities)

Federal grants accounted for 66 percent of state/local public welfare spending in 2020, up from 55 percent in 1977. Federal assistance helps city finances and budgets by providing resources to […] Source Federal assistance is a significant source of funding for state and local governments in the U.S.,

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Concerts for Carers uses AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora to deliver ticketing and events platform at any scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, while frontline workers were under immense pressure, Mark Lambert, Steve Gotkine, and Aidan de Brunner wanted to thank all of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) workers and paid care workers. “The We did not want to manage infrastructure,” said James Haigh, director of We Are Sweet.

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Using AI for intelligent document processing to support benefit applications and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

Each year, US federal, state, and local government agencies spend a significant part of their budgets on various social and safety net programs. get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s")) get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3") get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3")

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

Here is the description of the webinar: The economic disruption of COVID-19 will substantially affect state budgets in coming fiscal years, with an estimated $275 billion in revenue losses through fiscal June 2022. Join us on December 8, 2020, from 1-2:30 p.m This webinar, which provides 1.5 and New York City.