AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Headquartered in Hong Kong, AsiaSat offers managed media services with an end-to-end solution that addresses the changing dynamics of the video ecosystem. Our acquisition of a majority stake in OCGL in 2021 was a strategic move to enrich AsiaSat’s service portfolio.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nonprofits are using the cloud for fundraising, donor and member management, and communications. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 The decision to develop and host the CSP in the AWS Cloud put CSS among the first enterprises to adopt the cloud and build and manage one of the first mission-critical cloud-native applications.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

As data grows exponentially, however, four key trends will inform and impact the government’s control and usage of their data: Government data is exploding, which puts the onus on improved data management. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally. Keeping data secure.

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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

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 Happy Sad app required a flexible, scalable infrastructure that could seamlessly adapt to demand spikes without extensive management overhead.

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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. It comes back to that $5, Baidwan said. “I

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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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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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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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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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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. Sapphire provides managed services run by cyber security experts, enabling organisations to focus on their services while ensuring safety. The Internet offers many advantages.

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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. The data plane is a collection of such proxies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the United States, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received approximately 781,000 naturalization applications in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and completed nearly 1,076,000 applications—a 20 percent increase from FY 2021 and the highest in nearly 15 years. These challenges aren’t unique to naturalization.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 9, 2023

Transportation agencies face the challenge of managing heavy amounts of data from diverse and high-velocity sources. During the snowstorms of 2021, the operations team generated materialized views to efficiently monitor signs of congestion on throughways. code_block [StructValue([(u'code', u'CREATE OR REPLACE TABLErn`.prcp_accidents_table`

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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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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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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. Shadow IT — that is, technology that the IT department does not approve or manage — continues to be a bugaboo. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities. In a January 2023 report, the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human review systems or managing large numbers of human reviewers. get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s")) get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3") client('sts').get_caller_identity().get('Account')

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Jon Fielding, Managing Director EMEA Apricorn, discusses the need to focus on information and data protection whilst tackling the critical ‘human factor’ in breach prevention, backup and recovery strategies. Corporate stakeholders and workers alike should be accountable for information security.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

These properties were in most cases sold at sheriff’s sales to responsible rehabbers or to municipal land banks, kept and managed the unsold vacant lots until a future use could be identified. The post A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 27, 2023

The skills gap is even more alarming given the more than 41% increase in the number of cybercrime victims between 2021 and 2022. Participants can use their Google Cloud account to access the platform, simplifying the billing and provisioning elements for Cybrary users. Worldwide, an estimated 3.4

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

His role as Enterprise Sales Representative for the UK and Ireland means he is responsible for selling into large accounts. And you have somebody that manages those keys. Probably best to imagine a hotel scenario with a downstairs concierge managing all keys to the rooms. This is May 2021. What is Active Directory?

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, according to one estimate per the Government Accountability Office, the federal government made nearly $281 billion in erroneous payments in fiscal 2021 that it cannot retrieve. Gartner calls data catalogs “the new black in data management and analytics” and says they are fast becoming a must-have tool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But it is also a management failure of local government. the steady employment engine of the federal government And that they need to be all over Metrorail and Metrobus in terms of management and oversight. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions. historic architecture 2. historic architecture 2.

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GovLoop

MAY 5, 2023

The Scope of the Problem In 2021, 2,792 incidents compromised government data, and 537 of them resulted in confirmed disclosure of data. MIT’s Sloan School of Management describes a cybersecurity culture as one that “tasks every member of an organization with embracing attitudes and beliefs that drive secure behaviors.”

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 19, 2023

Fortunately, a bipartisan group in Congress last year took up the cause of modernizing the Plum Book in the cleverly named Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM Act). With a modern, online directory, the Office of Personnel Management will be able to fix errors or remedy omissions immediately.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

Corridor management. For the most park, transportation agencies don't do corridor management, where they coordinate all modes within a mobilty corridor, like I-15, which is paralleled by the Frontrunner commuter rail line, and has light rail transit too. Transportation demand management as a priority.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 13, 2023

Advance fee fraud, where a large sum of money is promised in return for a small upfront fee, accounted for 17%. Cybercrimes targeting businesses 2022’s most frequent business cyberattacks centred around: Stealing or compromising credentials accounted for 19% of all business cybercrime. This number was up 8.1%

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

QuickSight also announced new QuickSight API capabilities to allow programmatic creation and management of resources, and new analytical questions for Amazon QuickSight Q , which lets users ask questions of your data using natural language. New services to securely share, govern, and collaborate on data. Learn more about AWS Verified Access.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 28, 2023

There, in the depths of their offices, millions of employees are engaged in tedious and mundane tasks such as data entry, invoicing, and inventory management. As a result, RPA use cases spread across multiple sectors, including banking, healthcare, and telecom, and business functions, such as RPA in HR and accounting.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 22, 2022

However, in 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced geography and geohash support on Amazon Redshift , so geospatial analysts have the capability to quickly and efficiently query geohashed vector data in Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ). Prerequisites required to complete this walk through: An AWS Account. Prerequisites.

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iGrantWriters

JULY 1, 2021

Description The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to collect data for developing a revised framework to predict mercury risk to managed freshwater ecosystems that account for both the biogeochemistry and microbiology. Deadline to Apply July 30, 2021

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It seems like good managers can be hard to find, which leaves us desperate for any help we can get when dealing with a bad boss. There will never be an easy fix when it comes to working with a not-so-great manager, but here are some do’s and don’ts you might want to consider. Give your manager credit where and when it is due.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 18, 2024

Our government should recruit and retain the best people regardless of how agencies choose to manage their workforce. Like the private sector, the federal government needs highly qualified employees, well-trained managers and leaders, and strong service delivery to achieve its goals. This same report noted that U.S.

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Let's Talk Parks

MAY 6, 2021

As summer approaches, agencies are preparing to open their pools, recreation centers, and facilities to the public in 2021. On top of the many details to manage, plan, and respond to, the overarching concern for how to recruit and retain seasonal employees. Know your target audience and craft a message specific to them.

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