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Using AI for intelligent document processing to support benefit applications and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

In these applications, documents—in various sources, formats, and layouts—are the primary tools for application assessment. Processing these documents manually or by using legacy optical character recognition (OCR) systems is time-consuming and prone to error. Tens of millions of residents apply for these benefits every year.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab helps educators focus on teaching rather than technology

AWS Public Sector Blog

The platform interface includes markdown cells alongside code so students can document their learning in the same place as their coding project. 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.

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Best practices for project management in the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Document security and compliance requirements – For public sector customers, minimizing security and compliance risks are integral factors to consider in the strategy to manage cloud projects. Document the requirements and then consider available solutions to meet those requirements.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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How to implement CNAP for federal and defense customers in AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Optimizing your nonprofit mission impact with AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift ML

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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