AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

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APRIL 13, 2023

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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APRIL 14, 2025

Theyre helping to make them more accessible, responsive, and cost-effective, delivering almost $10 trillion in public value by 2034 , according to the World Economic Forum. Through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Public sector agencies today require digital skills to deliver the functions citizens expect, and the innovations necessary to speed up processes and address gaps and inequity. Fortunately, disrupting these preconceived notions and inspiring enthusiasm for data literacy is at the crux of many public sector learning initiatives.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program covers the cost of storage for publicly available high-value, cloud-optimized datasets.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

UK public sector organisations are facing threats and increasingly sophisticated attacks on key infrastructure and software security This trend is only expanding as more services become digitised and complex software supply chains multiply the opportunities for malicious actors to infiltrate networks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Kim Majerus, vice president of global education and US state and local government for worldwide public sector at AWS, led the keynote address. Majerus shared how AWS customers are innovating for their communities with the cloud and announced new public sector initiatives from AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Future of Government Awards recognize the people and projects leading public sector digital transformation around the world. The Open Source Creation of the Year Award celebrates government organizations that embody open government through the development of open source solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. To revive them, NPD made the decision to go live on the SOMA public safety platform—six months ahead of the scheduled cutover date. Lifesaving services were down. government security and compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

In May 2020, Maakestad began looking for a solution to support NU’s students through this crisis and beyond. The AWS Cloud allows us to scale our resources up or down based on our customers’ business needs,” said Gage Castro, senior developer at ConcernCenter.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? Conclusion Customers can use AWS to develop solutions that support StateRAMP and FedRAMP authorization. What is StateRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I founded SibsForever in August 2020. I decided to develop and deploy the SibsForever application on AWS for two main reasons. Subscribe to the AWS Public Sector Blog newsletter to get the latest in AWS tools, solutions, and innovations from the public sector delivered to your inbox, or contact us.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In 2020, the team decided that they would build their own digital slide viewer on AWS. Facilitating enriching and interactive learning experiences In just three months, LearnHaem designed, developed, and deployed its own digital slide viewer on AWS Cloud. Find out more about LearnHaem here.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This powerful tool combines large language models (LLMs) with your organization’s data to enhance productivity and innovation in the public sector. Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The AWS Fiber Optic Fusion Splicing program was launched in 2020. More broadly, AWS has made significant investments in supporting various workforce development efforts across Virginia. Learn more about how AWS supports workforce development in the public sector.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Elevating Government Productivity: Microsoft 365 Copilot at the Forefront The digital transformation within government sectors is accelerating, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a pivotal role in this evolution. Microsoft is leading the charge, deploying innovative AI solutions tailored for public sector needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By 2020, 50% of schools in Bulgaria were using Shkolo, which had almost 600K users. At the time, they used another cloud hosting vendor and their IT team consisted only of developers—no DevOps or system administrators (SysAdmins) personnel. Contact the AWS Public Sector Team to start a conversation today.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2022

By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region’s population – an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. Using AWS to deliver on our mission. Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are.

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APRIL 14, 2023

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, not every contribution is compatible with the specific use cases of some companies, which is why the maps team at Meta developed Daylight Map.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This dataset aims to accelerate the development of event-based algorithms and methods for edge cases encountered by autonomous systems in dynamic environments. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For nearly a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. An SMA can use these services to develop a highly accurate and scalable chatbot to assist Jon with his workload. Contact the AWS Public Sector Team to learn more.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

This blog post summarizes the experiences and insights he presented at the AWS Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education program for public sector leaders in June 2022. A common driver of public sector transformation is the potential for efficiency. Better government services by design.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This, along with the European Green Deal and NextGenerationEU (NGEU) funding, is a potent combination for sustainable energy development. The brief describes six key activities for islands to consider to take advantage of this unique opportunity for innovative development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The ADHA partners with AWS to help power digital health services and explore cloud computing innovations that can transform healthcare Throughout her career, Cattermole has championed the development of female leaders and role models in public service. You became CEO of the Agency in 2020. My Agency is my inspiration.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 9, 2023

The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a Power Platform Center of Excellence in the Federal Government Sphere June 21st @ 1pm ET Established in 2020, Transport Canada’s Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) team has been involved in Governance, Professional Development, and Citizen Development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Georgia DHS developed an iterative cloud strategy that would allow them to think big, start small, and scale fast. Establish an AWS foundation In 2020, the Georgia DHS began to plan and consolidate environments and selected AMS from AWS to provide the necessary cloud framework for migration.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

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. The fund allowed us to expand LocalGov Drupal between early 2020 and late 2021.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Hartnell College is a public community college located in Salinas, California, with over 7,500 undergraduates enrolled (2020–2021). Dr. Pham and her team had a long-term vision to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and were in the midst of developing their cloud strategy to facilitate the modernization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

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.” The SEDT has processed more than 2,600 requests since Urban launched it in September 2020.

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Government Technology Insider

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The entire public sector has been affected by technology’s rapid advancement over the past few years, a fact hard for anyone to deny. Even though the pace at which IT has developed has been exciting and beneficial, some organizations are struggling to keep up.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The AWS CIC Program provides an opportunity for nonprofits, education institutions, and government agencies to collaborate with other public sector organizations on their most pressing challenges, test new ideas with Amazon’s innovation process, and access the technology expertise of AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How can we use real-time data platforms to improve the cybersecurity skills gap crisis in government and the public sector? There is a crisis in cybersecurity skills , and the public sector, including government agencies, will be feeling the cumulative impact this year. How common are security breaches in government?

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