AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition to the IT team, health and human services subject matter experts, the Amazon Managed Services team, and the AWS account team helped the department with EPS design and deployment in the AWS Cloud. Through the combined efforts of the North Carolina and AWS teams, the full EPS launched on the deadline of July 1, 2021.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JANUARY 19, 2023

Those receiving federal assistance to pay for food—more than 41 million people in 2021—might wonder whether or how their benefits change as a result of inflation, the. High prices at the grocery store can hit struggling Americans especially hard.

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The City Fix

JULY 28, 2022

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 21, 2022

And the students keep those accounts so they can explore more and prepare themselves better for applying to university. Students and educators can request a SageMaker Studio Lab account here. No credit card is required, and the service does not require an AWS account. Top re:Invent 2021 announcements for K12 education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We’ll also cover adding an additional account boundary for security purposes, and how customers can move their Direct Connect connection to that new account. Starting in 2021 , AWS offered IEEE 802.1AE MAC Security Standard (MACsec) encryption on 10 Gbps, 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps dedicated connections at select locations.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2025

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. In 2021, success rates declined sharply to 58 percent, and then remained depressed in 2022, standing at 57 percent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In 2021, Nonprofit Trends Report, Fourth Edition reports that 36% of nonprofits invested in new technology such as customer relationship management systems (CRMs), collaboration and productivity tools, machine learning (ML), and automation. “We All you need to get started are your AWS and Salesforce admin account credentials.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s almost like a game of whack-a-mole,” says Kevin Walsh, director of IT and cybersecurity at the Government Accountability Office. “As In April 2021,Walsh provided testimony to Congress on agencies’ efforts to modernize critical legacy systems, some of which have been in operation since the 1960s.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. for 2021, 2022, and 2023, and now boasts national leagues, including in Australia. It’s been recognized as the fastest-growing sport in the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. AWS GovCloud (US) helps meet compliance mandates, safeguard sensitive data, and protect accounts and workloads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones. Modernization journey The CSP launch culminated several years of application development to build a cloud-native platform for mortgage securitization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

SFI has been providing application sustainment operations to FMCSA since April 2021. The S3 buckets will be named c wsyn-code-{AWS ACCOUNT NUMBER}-us-east-1 and cwsyn-results-{AWS ACCOUNT NUMBER}-us-east-1 respectively. Emptying the Amazon S3 buckets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided the USDA with $390 million available in non-competitive grants to offer WIC agencies looking to innovate their technology. Optionally, you can enable Amazon GuardDuty (GuardDuty) in an AWS account where WIC applications are deployed. This technology is aging across the U.S.,

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CarahCast

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this podcast, Adobe’s Wayne Byrd, an Account Executive for the US Air Force and Yasir Saleem, a Principal Solutions Consultant discuss Workflow Automation, its importance over the last year and what we can expect to see in the next year as part of Carahsoft’s community blog series focused on mission critical IT trends in 2021.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Our acquisition of a majority stake in OCGL in 2021 was a strategic move to enrich AsiaSat’s service portfolio. billion between 2022 and 2027, with the Asia Pacific (APAC) region accounting for 49% of that expansion. AWS media solutions can offer low latency and broadcast-grade video quality which matches our needs perfectly.” “Our

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’. higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Inspiring the next generation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2021, Rhode Island’s Department of Labor and Training collaborated with AWS on a Working Backwards process that improved transparency for unemployment insurance claims. Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. What is the solution and most important customer benefit?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business (TBSB) partner program. Since March 2021, over 400 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program. Small- and medium-sized businesses play a critical role in supporting public sector customers. Building these systems requires energy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In fact, a staggering 87 percent of public schools reported that the pandemic had negatively impacted their students’ social-emotional development during the 2021–2022 school year. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on students’ mental health and well-being.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Therefore, we use the latest (2021) CPS Food Security Supplement listed directly on the US Census Bureau website. This dataset contains demographic information and food security scores for approximately 128,000 US residents from 2021. An AWS Account. A default virtual private cloud (VPC) available in your AWS Account.

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That’s a 100 percent increase from 2021. Twitter uses the following ranking signals to determine what is shown in the Home feed: Past user activity : Twitter tries to predict which Tweets users will care about by looking at which accounts the user interacts with frequently. Most Twitter users are between the ages of 25-34 years.

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Peak Proposals

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We removed the funder lists from our website in May 2021, after several foundations contacted us requesting that their foundation be removed from our website because they were being inundated with applications from ineligible organizations that had not carefully reviewed their application guidelines. Peak Proposals Member Area Landing Page.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I wrote my first post about TikTok in April 2021. They can toggle between Following , which shows them content from the accounts they follow, and For You , which shows content based on an algorithm. The algorithm also the accounts they follow and the videos they themselves have created into consideration. TikTok for libraries.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I look at our social media accounts as an avenue for advertising, so most of our posts are program and event promotion and photos, and promotion of our eMedia and materials.” I used the tagline for our expansion and renovation project that started a few months later in the summer of 2021. This gave me the idea for the Weekly Roundup.”

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Google Public Sector

MAY 9, 2023

During the snowstorms of 2021, the operations team generated materialized views to efficiently monitor signs of congestion on throughways. view_alerts_clustered`rn WHERErn ts >= TIMESTAMP('2021-12-01') AND ts = '2021-12-01' AND date )])] Once built, this query provides a training dataset for creating a machine learning (ML)model.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Creating fossil-free postal transport and logistics In 2021, Posti Group , the leading postal and logistics service company in Finland, signed the Climate Pledge , co-founded by Amazon, and committed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across their business operations by 2040.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. Though women account for 60% of the government workforce, they aren’t well-represented within government IT.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

It is important to start slowly and to address simple things like property insurance upon acquisition, payroll systems, accounting, employee manuals, ethics policies, and the processes of receiving, holding, maintaining, and disposing properties.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2021, DHS, like many agencies, was putting together a funding request to boost its cybersecurity work after the SolarWinds cyberattack. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. The Internet offers many advantages. Shockingly, 80% of reported fraud is enabled through online means, with many cyber-enabled frauds remaining unreported.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. In 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) debuted a catalog of nearly 300 known, exploited vulnerabilities; that list now stands at around 900. million workers, but that still leaves 3.4

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

From 2010 to 2021, the county’s population grew by a whopping 33% to 429,000. The goal: to bring accountability and consistency to the performance management process, boosting morale and improving retention over the long term. between 2021 and 2022.” Residents are flocking to Manatee County, Fla.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

This is why, in March 2021, we launched the AWS Think Big for Small Business partner program. Since March 2021, more than 500 partners from 41 countries have participated in the TBSB program, and have launched more than 1,200 opportunities with public sector customers.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

A Government Accountability Office report issued in June 2021 noted that most of the federal government’s $100 billion fiscal year spending on IT went to maintaining and operating existing technology, including old, unsupported systems with known vulnerabilities.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Federal government cybersecurity breaches rose by 453 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2021, according to the Government Accountability Office. To combat and overcome these threats, federal IT administrators can use IP packet capture to examine network traffic for security threats using Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 13, 2023

million people were trapped in some form of human slavery in 2021 – 27.6 Ruthless gangs and traffickers are ultimately driven by money, which is usually laundered and deposited in legitimate accounts. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), an agency of the UN, 49.6 million in forced labour , 6.3

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