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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. Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done.

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21 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

ECMWF Reanalysis 5 (ERA5) returns to the Registry of Open Data National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is providing a NetCDF-4 structured version of the 0.25 degree atmospheric European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis 5 (ERA5) to the Registry of Open Data on AWS.

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Electronic Plan Review Can Help Cities Streamline Approval Operations

State Tech Magazine

As noted by Forbes, investment in smart cities is expected to double from roughly $410 billion in 2020 to more than $820 billion in 2025. Consider the Ellinikon development near Athens, Greece, which includes everything from smart water management to IoT-enabled streetlights.… The challenge?

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AWS re/Start MENA celebrates successful first year

AWS Public Sector Blog

in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% in 2020 compared to the global average of 6.6% AWS re/Start is a no-cost, cohort-based, workforce development training program that first launched in the MENA region in June 2021. AWS re/Start now operates in more than 180 cities across more than 60 countries worldwide.

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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. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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How the Wharton School built a virtual TA chat assistant with generative AI on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In keeping with this philosophy, Wharton fully migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020 so it could move quickly and adapt to the latest technological advancements. To help develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for the project, Alig reached out to Peter Fader, the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at Wharton.

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34 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

These platforms typically operate in challenging conditions such as driving on off-road trails, navigating through dense forests, and performing aggressive flight maneuvers. Our dataset also covers demanding operational scenarios for event cameras, such as scenes with high egomotion and multiple independently moving objects.

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