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LocalGov Drupal on AWS serves as a digital transformation resource for local governments

AWS Public Sector Blog

Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. In this post, I explain how councils used collaboration and shared resources to develop this digital public infrastructure which has reduced the cost of building council websites by up to 80 percent and delivered better services.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Going over budget is not an option. 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.” These models are frequently referred to as legacy systems.

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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. Once the applications that used Gogo domains were moved to either Intelsat or Gogo/Intelsat SAN certificate, the developers updated the code only with Intelsat domains.

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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

AWS serverless services such as AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate , Amazon Aurora , and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enable developers to build applications that can respond to variable load, with lower running costs during quieter times.

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New Mexico delivers customer-obsessed human services programs powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. That’s one of the highest rates in the US.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to calculate success rates for housing choice voucher recipients. Further, as noted in Congressional budget language , lower success rates should not necessarily be taken as an indicator of poor performance. ” The research offers three main findings: 1.

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How the Norton Police Department saves time and money with AWS Public Sector Partner SOMA Global

AWS Public Sector Blog

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. Just that one tool alone is so powerful for our time and budget,” said NPD Sergeant Bucky Culbertson. Lifesaving services were down. government security and compliance requirements.