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Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

In an increasingly digital world, governments and public sector entities are seeking secure and efficient ways to use cloud technologies. In this post, I share how we at AWS are collaborating with national cyber regulators and other public sector entities to enable secure adoption of the AWS Cloud across countries public sectors.

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NASCIO 2022: Massachusetts Finds Success in Employee Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

Sean Hughes, Massachusetts assistant secretary for technology, security and operations, estimated the commonwealth is about halfway through migrating its employees into a single-sign-on portal where they can access all required government…

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Virtualizing satellite communication operations with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The complexity of spacecraft operations has sky-rocketed with increased orbital activity and new satellite capabilities, like the ability to reconfigure capacity, power, and coverage on demand. Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground.

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Q+A: New York Chief Cyber Officer Colin Ahern Tackles Whole-of-State Security

State Tech Magazine

In June 2022, New York Gov. Previously, the governor established the state’s first Joint Security Operations Center and based it in Brooklyn. Kathy Hochul appointed Colin Ahern as the first chief cyber officer for the state.

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NASCIO 2022: Georgia Department of Revenue’s Modernized Tax Infrastructure

State Tech Magazine

The Georgia Department of Revenue was operating on outdated infrastructure. Another factor was security and compliance, as it relates to managing this tax information, and the sensitive nature of the information contained within the repository as well. Williams believed modernizing ultimately would save his agency money.

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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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AWS successfully runs AWS compute and machine learning services on an orbiting satellite in a first-of-its kind space experiment

AWS Public Sector Blog

Today at AWS re:Invent 2022 , Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space experiment. Image courtesy D-Orbit. Photo courtesy D-Orbit. The team began running its experiments a few weeks later.