AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

In this post, we explain how to implement a personalized, self-paced student companion that addresses the challenges of tailored learning support. The code snippet that implements this step is illustrated, together with the code to invoke the LLM, in step 5. The following code snippet illustrates this process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones. Plus, CSS realized $10.7

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This two-day conference is going to take place both in person at The Westin Hotel in Downtown Denver, CO, as well as virtually, on October 4th and 5th, 2023. When this will happen: Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-September and expect to complete by late September 2023. Thank you for your patience.

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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. This lacks hallucinations by injecting reference implementation as context using RAG along with Amazon Bedrock fine tuning.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources Empowering US public sector organizations to transition to Microsoft 365 What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2023 Teams Connect shared channels in GCCH & DoD - Work seamlessly and securely with those inside and outside your organization. In case it’s not running it will start it.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft 365 Government price updates - into effect March 1st 2023 On August 2021 we announced an update to our pricing for Microsoft 365 (which applies to all commercial customers: Enterprise, US Government, and Business). For more general information uncheck these boxes under “Cloud Instance”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While Amazon Rekognition Image recognition service models are helpful for quick, wide use case classification implementations, generating object-specific models for bespoke use cases may increase the confidence in specific object detection. Example training data with Amazon Rekognition Custom object label as wildfire “smoke.”

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Honoring the 2023 Sammies winners Among this year’s honorees is our Federal Employee of the Year, Laura Cooper , who led a Defense Department team that organized a process enabling the U.S. On CBS News, host John Dickerson highlighted some of the 2023 Sammies winners. For those in the D.C 1 at 9 p.m.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

We will be retiring the ‘Get Data’ page in Power BI as well as the ability to connect to files from personal OneDrive accounts. OneDrive Sync client connections from a virtual machine using FSLogix releases older than FSLogix 2009 Hot Fix 1 are not supported and will get blocked starting March 2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

My eCISO includes recommendations from popular cyber frameworks such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more. This is due to the flexibility and power of the natural language capabilities of the AI tool.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. When thoughtfully implemented, compensation can be a powerful tool for fostering deeper, more meaningful community involvement.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2023 SIP Gateway is now available for Government Community Cloud customers to enable core Teams calling functionality on legacy devices. will be available in May 2023. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your patience. currently available).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

When an issue with speaker diarization (distinguishing between different speakers) was preventing the identification of unique voices within a classroom, for example, the AWS account team worked swiftly with the product team to get the problem resolved. This was a great example of how responsive AWS was,” said Ritter. “I

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources Empowering US public sector organizations to transition to Microsoft 365 What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2023 We have a great line-up of new features to announce. When this will happen: We will roll out this change beginning in early August and expect to complete by mid-August.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Blueprints also helps you implement the relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster. Educational institutions are creating online learning platforms that offer scalable and interactive experiences for students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

While the new CMS policy is a positive step toward breaking the recidivism cycle, implementation is not straightforward—especially given compliance issues and the siloed nature of both government agencies and recordkeeping.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“I really have to dive into how I implement new technology on a limited budget,” he said. ” The Journey So Far In 2023, part of Barker’s mission was to “demystify” AI for Burlington government colleagues. “There’s not a lot of room for me to say ‘It will be cool to explore this.'”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The WIC system went live in production in March 2023. The migration was frictionless and speedy, with excellent guidance from the AWS account team—working directly alongside our AZDHS leadership,” said Paula Mattingly, chief information officer (CIO) for AZDHS. “The AZDHS later added AWS microservices to enhance functionality.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2023, the European Union had more than 330 applicants for the European Digital Skills Awards across five categories. Monitor and evaluate against objectives Governments set clear objectives and create mechanisms for continual introspection, improvement, and accountability.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” In a January 2023 report, the U.S. Specters of a Cyber War On Feb.

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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. You can implement these solutions yourself, with help from AWS Partners, or with AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The value of data and innovation Three of Educause’s 2023 Top 10 IT issues (“ #4: Smooth Sailing for the Student Experience” , ” #7. As you contemplate migrating your ERP or SIS to AWS, either reach out to your account team to explore your options or visit the “Oracle Applications on AWS” page and refer to the “How to Get Started” section.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office. The UCMM framework has been a key in aligning recovery actions from the SolarWinds Incident and guiding implementation of critical cybersecurity capabilities and above guidance requests,” the report states.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Continuously assess through AWS Security Hub AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that performs automated, continuous security best practice checks against your AWS resources across Regions and accounts. Learn more about digital transformation for credit unions at the AWS for Credit Unions hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

To ensure appropriate processes and full compliance, they partnered in late 2023 with Kite Consult to drive the transformation and migration project, including replacing their end-of-life SAP-based patient health record (PHR) system and modernizing their legacy Citrix infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The impact of inefficient processing is evident globally: In 2023, Ireland received 20,650 naturalization applications while grappling with a backlog of 15,000 applications from previous years , resulting in an average processing time of 19 months. For this solution, we cover the technical implementation using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

These companies help reduce the time-to-implementation, letting nonprofit organizations focus on their main objective: advancing their missions. Reach out to your AWS account manager to learn more, or contact the AWS Public Sector Team to get started with AWS.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

These publications are important because one of the primary requirements for CMMC is that organizations will need to implement most, if not all, of NIST 800-171r3’s controls for Level 2 certification. This translates to an average of 4,000 password attacks per second targeting Microsoft cloud identities [2023]”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, purchasing insurance in the individual market proved challenging for those without employer-sponsored health benefits. There are more than nine million active accounts. This was particularly true in California, where more than 39 million people live.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lower the investment required to innovate By migrating on-premises servers to the cloud, K12 organizations can reduce spending to implement and expand new technology. There were many variables to account for—language, culture, urban versus rural—as they approached potential new locations.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 24, 2024

Among other findings, several alarming trends emerged in our work: Only 34% of respondents believe the federal government is accountable, while a significant 62% do not; and merely 21% agree that the federal government is transparent, with a strong majority, 70% disagreeing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In Canada, we have two Regions, each containing three AZs: Canada Central in Montréal, Quebec (launched in 2016), and Canada West in Calgary, Alberta (launched in 2023). To learn more about how AWS can assist with fulfilling your data protection and residency needs, consult Canada Data Privacy or speak with your AWS account manager.

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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. In response, the UK Government released a strategy in 2023 with the aim of reducing fraud by 10%. The true number of such incidents is much higher.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Finally, I will present a list of various pragmatic actions from which policymakers can select several they view as most well-suited for implementation. This includes imposing higher capital and liquidity requirements, as well as implementing resolution planning 12 and other requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Students simply log into the tool using their “myHighline” account. The AWS tool yields immediate results in transparency, efficiency, and morale Implementing the AWS financial aid tool resulted in immediate benefits for Highline College. For Wrye, the simplicity of the tracking tool is part of its genius.

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