AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. For the unhoused, being ‘document ready’ is essential to avoid delays or denial of access to benefits and services they need. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

What you need to do to prepare: You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate. We will be retiring the ‘Get Data’ page in Power BI as well as the ability to connect to files from personal OneDrive accounts. Learn more about Sensitivity Labels here.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 17, 2023

Therefore, on March 1, 2023, the updated prices will be effective for the following suites: Office 365 G1 (+10%), Office 365 G3 (+5%), and Microsoft 365 G3 (+2%).   . We have added capabilities like data loss prevention (DLP) for documents and emails, Office messaging encryption, and attack surface reduction capabilities.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Whether you need to make strategic decisions, solve problems, or answer customer queries, you want to leverage the knowledge that is stored in your documents and databases. In this blog post, we will show you how you can use Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search to create chat bots that can answer challenging questions from your documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. Take advantage of generative AI 2023 was a big year for generative AI at AWS. You can use Cost Optimization Hub to identify, filter, and aggregate AWS cost optimization recommendations across your AWS accounts and AWS Regions.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. Even defining what AI trustworthiness looks like has been a challenge. That’s an important start.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in an account and an AWS Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

The challenge Throughout 2023, NHS England delivery teams, supported by AWS, undertook 10 Well-Architected reviews on critical services. This initiates an automated process where AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics facilitate the sharing of these templates with AWS accounts owned by delivery teams.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Read on to learn more about the 2023 federal programs and policies in community revitalization you might have missed. An interagency Overview document and a brief Fact Sheet help break down broadly what’s contained in the nearly 1,500 page Final Rule. At award closeout: A report of the final amount spent on these costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

On April 12, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) for satellite operators using Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with AWS Ground Station. Please contact your AWS account team in case the contact doesn’t work as expected.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 9, 2023

March 2023 marks three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially implemented on a limited basis to allow space for customer feedback, this service will be available to more Americans by the end of 2023. Initially, life in our country seemed to stop. However, things changed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, we cover public sector use cases that are driving the adoption of serverless and containers, such as generative AI, data analytics, document processing, and more. Examples where workflow orchestration is applicable are case management systems and document processing systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The process was cumbersome, requiring teachers to upload videos onto a shareable drive and share comments haphazardly with one another through chat apps, collaborative documents, or email. It wasn’t always apparent which changes to instructional methods should be credited for the gains.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Safe Documents is now Generally Available - GCC August, GCCH & DoD November. MC454797 — SharePoint and OneDrive deploying hard block for IE11 in January 2023. Beginning mid-January, 2023, access to SharePoint Online and OneDrive from Internet Explorer 11 will be hard blocked for all users. Microsoft Purview.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

” The Journey So Far In 2023, part of Barker’s mission was to “demystify” AI for Burlington government colleagues. “I For example, an automation could enter invoices into the accounting system rather than people typing them in by hand. And then we’ve got paper documents that go back forever,” he added.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14110) aims to promote the responsible use of AI while mitigating potential risks and ensuring the protection of civil rights and liberties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL. The business rules embedded in legacy code are often complex and poorly documented.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Polk County, Texas, home to approximately 53,000 residents, established a dedicated Purchasing and Procurement Department in 2023, spearheaded by Nacole Reeks, the county’s Purchasing and Procurement Coordinator. Reeks notes that, “I would search for suppliers that could provide what we were looking for. It was really time consuming.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. You can leverage Amazon SageMaker Model Cards to document critical details about your ML models for streamlined governance and reporting.

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As appeared in the CT Post on February 16th, 2023, written by Joe Carbone For decades, the American workforce system has addressed challenges that served as barriers to career attainment. Recent labor reports in Connecticut document a growing economy with job creation increasing while unemployment is at record lows.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2021 congressional testimony , a 2020 blog and a 2021 blog , the Partnership for Public Service as well as others who have studied the Plum Book have documented the many deficiencies of the traditional Plum Book. The law also requires identification of individuals who temporarily serve in vacant positions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Scammers are creating more credible schemes to convince victims to part with their money, generating more realistic data trails and documentation to cover their tracks, and facilitating the movement and laundering of fraud proceeds. No targets have been spared, from individuals to large corporations and public bodies.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

FedRAMP authorization is a rigorous and comprehensive process that involves extensive documentation, testing, and auditing by independent third-party assessors (3PAO). You can find a full list of Azure services that meet the requirements of FedRAMP High in the Azure compliance scope documentation. that require CJIS.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

I came to know of the Newberry Library through one of my readers, who mentioned that they admired the Newberry’s Instagram account. Indeed, it’s a history and book lovers’ dream, with lots of photos and videos featuring historic books, albums, documents, and more. Lili says Source Material is a collaboration between departments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Students simply log into the tool using their “myHighline” account. Namely, the creation of an AWS intelligent document process (IDP) capable of automating document receiving, authentication, and data entry, which would help condense 27 screens of student information into one view.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help credit unions prepare for audits, assess security posture, and produce documentation for state or federal regulators. If you’re an AWS customer, reach out to your AWS solutions architect or account manager to start building a roadmap.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Inventory and document the processes of the IT department Many colleges and universities have a large IT infrastructure footprint on premises. From Hartnell College’s experience, an integral component to recovery was an inventoried, up-to-date backup with complete documentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In some cases, the networks must be disconnected, and documentation done by hand. To minimize the risk of dangerous IT-related interruptions to operations, the European Union (EU) introduced new cybersecurity legislation NIS 2 Directive in 2023. First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The pandemic also accelerated government agencies’ adoption of new technologies to support team collaboration and more flexible work environments, including chat, video conferencing, and document sharing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the Netherlands, 2,292 medicines were marked unavailable for at least two weeks in 2023, representing around 15 percent of all types, including drugs needed for cancer, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. These affected medicines were out of stock for 107 days on average in 2023, compared to 91 days in 2022.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted that many of the early projects TMF funded had not, at that time, delivered on their intended savings — in part, because the original cost estimates were off the mark. Well-documented. Unfortunately, that can be tricky. In testifying before Congress in May 2022, the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Iron Mountain uses AWS AI and ML services to enable customers like His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to extract the text and data from scanned documents in more than 50 languages and in many file formats. Often, AWS ISV Partners work closely with AWS Service Partners to help them on this journey and provide managed services.

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The CIO Council

MARCH 28, 2023

In February 2023, the Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council hosted a “Fraud Detection & Prevention Symposium”. Driving Action Through Data Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to establish a national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There were many variables to account for—language, culture, urban versus rural—as they approached potential new locations. Using an AWS Partner has allowed Region 4 ESC to start its transformation while concurrently working to upskill its staff with training from Slalom and AWS’s vast documentation library.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

If you’re using Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, then you have data in your account about your donors and prospective donors: how often they donate, demographics, analytics, gift management, and other details. Using Amazon AppFlow, you can set the destination to any of the connectors listed in the Amazon AppFlow documentation.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Apply default sensitivity label to unlabeled files uploaded to SharePoint document library. Today we are announcing that we are extending the window for the app bar to be temporarily disabled until March 31, 2023. When this will happen: March 31, 2023. Safe Attachment Action Changes. SharePoint / OneDrive for Business.

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