AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

The IMAGINE conference from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, Washington brought together education, state, and local leaders to learn, connect, and get inspired about how the latest innovations in cloud technology are transforming what’s possible for local communities. What’s the state’s responsibility in all this?”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

In 2022, Sri Lanka faced its worst economic crisis since independence. It plays a key role in developing DPI: secure, interoperable digital systems based on open standards, that provide broad accessibility while aligning with national policies. Citizens queued for days for rations of just 20 liters.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

AWS Solution Spark , launched earlier this year, helps public sector partners develop and accelerate open source solutions across state and local government, federal government, healthcare, and education. Since July 2022, MyappSoftware has included Performance Dashboard in every new launched opportunity as a value-add service.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

In May 2022, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the US, encountered a problem. Enter Kokomo24/7 , a health and safety software education technology (EdTech) platform committed to creating safer schools and communities. Learn more by visiting the AWS Cloud for EdTech hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

At the IMAGINE 2022 conference in Seattle, Washington, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the inaugural class of the AWS Education Champions community. The 10 inaugural Champions are nationally recognized speakers and authors who inspire the next generation of educational leaders. What is the AWS Education Champions community?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Cloud computing technology is transforming education, driving new expectations in personalized learning, academic medicine, and research. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been at the forefront with innovative educators, researchers, and medical professionals to modernize classrooms, labs, libraries, and medical centers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Plus, when educators connect and communicate with each other, they can help improve the culture of education, use their data more effectively, and deliver better results for students. Discover how four AWS EdStart Members use AWS to create more connected and engaging educational experiences for learners around the world.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

Economic Development Administration (EDA) with strong bipartisan support. 3891) , the first in 20 years, is included as part of the Water Resources Development Act (S. Planning activities related devising, implementing, and updating a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) are eligible for funding.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. There is a continuing global shortage of STEM talent and many communities in the US do not have equal access to high-quality STEM education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

AWS has helped ASTERRA overcome traditional on-premises infrastructure limitations and to accelerate the development of solutions for anticipating and mitigating failures, saving water, energy, and avoiding carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions as a result. As an example, the company chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy EO Discover.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

From July 11-12, 2023, the IMAGINE: Education, State, and Local Leaders conference from Amazon Web Services (AWS) gathered public sector leaders from around the world in Sacramento, CA to reimagine the future of state and local government and education. Kim Majerus at the IMAGINE conference.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Today, scientists and visionaries around the world are working hard to develop the next-generation technologies that will shape our future. At re:MARS 2022, AWS announced that the combined Axiom Space and AWS team successfully communicated remotely with the Snowcone on the ISS, and the team performed edge processing on space-based datasets.

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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. And the team was impressed with the work AWS has done with other education technology (EdTech) companies, such as Metis and Gaggle.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

On Tuesday, November 29 at re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Max Peterson, vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector, spoke about how the transformative power of the cloud is enabling organizations to move with speed and agility while making sure mission-critical workloads stay secure and protected.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 14, 2024

Summary City Colleges of Chicago (CCC)—the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation—participates in two no-cost Amazon Web Services (AWS) initiatives to advance and develop undergraduate technical programs. In total, 21 CCC instructors have completed AWS MLU-sponsored AI/ML boot camps.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At AWS re:Invent 2022, I connected with inspiring customers around the world who are using the cloud to drive innovation in government, education, nonprofit, space, and healthcare. And of 1,022 spacecraft placed in orbit during the first six months of 2022, the majority— 958 —were from the commercial sector.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over six weeks from early November through mid-December, the program will immerse startups in cloud education with hands-on technical training in capabilities like machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC). Startups are also eligible to receive assistance with go-to-market and business development planning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Although tech’s “next big thing” seems to change moment to moment, two things remain constant: the increasing demand for cloud computing, and the need to inspire and educate the next generation of tech-savvy students to evolve and support it.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

The vision was to create a 3D construct that cuts across space, time, and narrative to make Singapore’s history come alive in a fun and educational way for everyone. Time: Showcase the evolution of a location over centuries using rich digital content, including pictures, newspaper articles, and memories.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

On June 15, more than 900 people joined us for the 2022 VAD Academy —a day-long virtual bootcamp for professionals and community partners whose work and communities are impacted by vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) property challenges. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Metis Eduventures Private Limited is the education technology (EdTech) company behind Adda247 , India’s largest test prep platform. Its mission is to make quality education widely accessible, even to those outside major cities. Engineers mapped out the build and launched a working demo in October 2022.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 22, 2022

Agency for International Development is the winner of the 2022 Samuel J. The Partnership’s Jordan LaPier interviewed Josa, an inclusive education specialist, and discussed how he has leveraged U.S. resources and influence to promote educational opportunities in developing nations for children and youth with disabilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2022, Emory launched the AI.Humanity initiative to explore the societal impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and influence its future development to serve humanity. Emory worked on its HPC solution with AWS and SchedMD , the developer of an open-source compute workload management software called Slurm.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Solutions developed by and for these communities have the potential to create meaningful change in Latin America and the Caribbean. As of November 2022, the AWS Health Equity Initiative distributed $14M to nearly 90 organizations. Pictured: Daniela Correa and Melissa Chavana, co-founders of SinCarbano.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It highlights the importance of trust-building in community development. These groups are usually more affluent, well-educated, or have the time and resources to take part. By 2025, governments are expecting to continue developing strategies to remove these barriers. Certain groups have often led engagement efforts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Here are some of the highlights: James Brinkhoff, associate professor at the Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre of the University of New England in Australia, used Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine to develop a comprehensive, real-time map of the rice fields in Australia. Marieke van Buchem , Ph.D.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Developer selected by City; universities have option of ownership interest. August 2022. DFI partnership with Buncombe County kicks off.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These startups are developing groundbreaking solutions to help cities address infrastructure-related sustainability challenges. Louis, Missouri, USA, is developing affordable wind turbines for commercial buildings designed to be installed at the edge of roofs to take advantage of wind that naturally speeds up as it travels over roof edges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Education institutions, though, face slightly different decision-making contexts when evaluating which cloud provider to use to host these applications. Separately, the university experienced an increasing number of cybersecurity events, which culminated in a major event in Fall of 2022.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

As student enrollment begins to stabilize at colleges and universities, higher education leaders are focused on supporting equitable access to postsecondary education. Many leaders are turning to technology to address systemic barriers to education by making services more transparent, efficient, and simple for learners and staff.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The education technology (EdTech) sector is rapidly evolving, leveraging the latest technical capabilities to continuously improve student learning and institutional objectives. However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Understanding the multidisciplinary dream team’s needs Sunswift Racing is a team of innovators based in Sydney, Australia that set out to redefine the future of sustainable transportation by developing solar vehicle technologies. This improvement in build speed greatly enhanced the overall development speed for the team.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 16, 2022

Following years of digital talent developments in Indonesia, Google has become a supporter of Bangkit , an academy designed to produce high-caliber technical talent for Indonesian technology companies and startups. Machine learning with Tensorflow , getting students ready to take the Tensorflow Developer certification.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Pictured: Learners take part in hands-on learning at the AWS Fiber Optic Fusion Splicing Certificate Course at Mountain Empire Community College, November 14-15, 2022. More broadly, AWS has made significant investments in supporting various workforce development efforts across Virginia.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Open Source Creation of the Year Award celebrates government organizations that embody open government through the development of open source solutions. As of October 2022, there are 17,872 successful businesses and 11,750 reserved business names registered via the OBR portal.

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