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

JUNE 14, 2023

The rising need for mental health resources put a strain on NU’s Student Wellness department—particularly on case managers who serve as frontline support for students seeking help. In May 2020, Maakestad began looking for a solution to support NU’s students through this crisis and beyond.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Updated: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections managed by NASA—now includes cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. ASTER L1T Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs managed by Descartes Labs. Machine learning: Visual Anomaly (VisA) managed by AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In January 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) inaugurated a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The CIC uses emerging technologies to solve real-world problems and has produced more than 50 prototypes in sectors like healthcare, education, and research.

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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. The school has a long-standing emphasis on the use of data and technology in both its research of business ideas and its approach to student learning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Our analysis reveals that investments made by the public sector in skills development, like government initiatives and higher education programs, have the potential to drive competitiveness, innovation, and equity. Get started with workforce development in the public sector.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I founded SibsForever in August 2020. Finally, Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ) supports a managed configuration for historical and user-entered data. Additionally, all sensitive data, such as database passwords and credentials for third-party services, gets encrypted within AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

The National Bureau of Revenues VAT system, for example, now runs on SAPs HANA cloud database, and the Ministry of Justice has developed a cloud-based management system for legal cases, using a database and applications from Oracle. In 2020, Bahrain established the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) to strengthen digital security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2025

As states continue to transition towards more modular architectures and look for efficiencies, adopting an ODS is vital in maintaining cohesive and effective data management. According to Gartner research from 2020 , inconsistency in data across sources is the most challenging data quality problem.

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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 22, 2022

The Future of Government Awards recognize the people and projects leading public sector digital transformation around the world. Winner: IO, the app for Italian public services – PagoPA S.p.A., Governments look to digital ID to modernize services and boost growth.

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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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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

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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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. A key aspect of simplifying the certificates using a SAN certificate is that it provided a solution for integrating with the Classic Load Balancer.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

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). 2,730 2015-01-02 301.42 5,558 2015-01-03 146.77 3,446 Plotting these values by time yields the following figure: Figure 7.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This approach was supported by their first infrastructure vendor, and was more manageable in Shkolo’s early days. By 2020, 50% of schools in Bulgaria were using Shkolo, which had almost 600K users. All this traffic was managed with a single database machine. Contact the AWS Public Sector Team to start a conversation today.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

The impact of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic was so significant that the UK government established a National Data Strategy in 2020, the aim of which was to use data to innovate, experiment, and drive a new era of growth. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Georgia’s Department of Human Services (DHS), the largest of the state’s agencies, was able to digitally transform their business and rapidly scale their Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud adoption with AWS Managed Services (AMS). The Georgia DHS learned that agencies and organizations need precise prior planning to be successful.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The program was in response Solorigate in 2020, and the discovery of common cybersecurity gaps that negatively impacted organizations’ risk. This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments. In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is a guest post by Louisa Barker, research manager in the European Government Insights team at IDC, and Joe Dignan, the European head of government insights at IDC. The island is instrumenting infrastructure, such as the energy grid and the local marina, with internet of things (IoT) solutions and smart management systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Seems trivial, right?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Cyber-resilience doesn’t have to be expensive K12 schools have a tall task: addressing rigorous security and compliance requirements while also managing tight budgets. After extensive research, I saw that Amazon’s infrastructure was miles ahead,” said KRESA’s IT infrastructure manager Michael Coats.

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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.

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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. Because IT tends to be siloed in public sector organizations, agencies need to purchase multiple licenses for each entity.

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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). Hartnell has also leveraged the breadth of AWS services and has begun exploring capabilities of other AWS managed services to further enable their students’ success by improving accessibility and agility.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Original system Launched in January 2020, Eutelsat Konnect is a high-capacity satellite which delivers broadband services across Europe and Africa to help bridge the digital divide in areas where terrestrial networks are not deployed or offer poor performance. percent, and decreased incidents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

At Brighton & Hove City Council , in the south of England, I helped to build a website on the open source Drupal platform, a content management system used to run hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide. The fund allowed us to expand LocalGov Drupal between early 2020 and late 2021.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

Sapphire provides managed services run by cyber security experts, enabling organisations to focus on their services while ensuring safety. Compliance standards are implemented within the public sector to achieve minimum cyber security standards. This trend is expected to continue to rise.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

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. We did not want to manage infrastructure,” said James Haigh, director of We Are Sweet.

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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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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. The emergence of Ukraine 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

The SEDT has processed more than 2,600 requests since Urban launched it in September 2020. As a team of data scientists note , Urban also uses AWS Step Functions to manage increasingly complex serverless applications. For programmers, Urban also built a SEDT API and R package.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses operate across various industries, including the public sector. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription. Access to an Amazon QuickSight subscription.

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