AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023. Plus, CSS realized $10.7

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The 2023-2026 data strategy of the Government of Canada (GC) The GC’s data strategy describes how the Federal Public Service intends to utilize data over the next three years to deliver enhanced services and value to Canadians. AWS will review DTO fee waiver requests at the account level. The maximum discount is 15% of total spending.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. The challenge Throughout 2023, NHS England delivery teams, supported by AWS, undertook 10 Well-Architected reviews on critical services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

When used in coordination with services such as AWS Control Tower , the LZA provides a comprehensive no-code solution across more than 35 AWS services and features to manage and govern a multi-account environment. Leveraging a multi-account strategy sets the stage for improved security posture and growth.

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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 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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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. AWS provides many security tools to maintain data privacy and is accredited to operate at the IRAP PROTECTED classification level.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Shared Responsibility Model can help relieve a customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities where the service operates.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Key points: Major: Retirement Timeline: October 2, 2023: Retirement announcement and customers can proactively set a property to block Business Connectivity services features within their tenant. October 30, 2023: Microsoft will begin blocking Business Connectivity Services features based on the tenant property set by the customer.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microsoft Teams for US Government Adoption Guide Message Center Highlights SharePoint Online MC678064 — UseRemoteAPIs functionality change 60 Days Updated September 27, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. >60 Days Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Intelsat operates one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and is a leading provider of in-flight connectivity (IFC), powering inflight internet for 23 commercial airline partners and nearly 3,000 aircraft. This blog post shares the lessons learned from Intelsat’s successful domain migration with AWS.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2023

Teams Emergency Operations Center version 2, now available! We are excited to announce our latest update to the Teams Emergency Operations Center, Version 2! When this will happen: GA: Rollout will begin in early June 2023 and is expected to be complete by mid-June 2023. You may want to notify your users of this update.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

Microsoft Teams for US Government Adoption Guide Message Center Highlights SharePoint Online MC653734 — (Updated) SharePoint: User experience and Image Coherence in SharePoint Online (SPO) >60 Days Updated July 26, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They can result in the cancellation of operations or examinations. 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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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. Microsoft operates its US Federal business out of the GCC-H and Azure Government cloud. Thank you for your patience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Both institutions faced the discontinuation of existing outsourcing contracts and required a seamless transition to a new IT operating model. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts. Additionally, the global hardware shortage in 2022 exacerbated the challenges to meet the tight deadline.

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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. Public facing documentation for creating custom list templates can be found here. Thank you for your patience.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 22, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s new in Microsoft 365 Government – April 2023 We’re excited to announce several new products and services that have been delivered to our Microsoft 365 Government clouds in recent months and peek at what’s coming soon. With this change, we will no longer update the SharedWith fields during sharing operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Save costs and improve operations, efficiency, and resiliency CalHEERS is a complex solution. There are more than nine million active accounts. The original on-premises system was designed for peak usage, which meant that for most of the year, it ate up unnecessary operational costs. It also provides increased resiliency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Since 2023, the alliance has launched in 12 countries and US states and is now expanding to France, with the aim of meeting the growing demand for cloud skills. The Montaigne Institute estimates that 845,000 people must be trained between 2023 and 2030, or 130,000 additional new talents to be trained per year. [To

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Public health agencies know that modernizing their technology infrastructure is necessary to avoid disruptions to program operations and create new opportunities to serve their constituents. The WIC system went live in production in March 2023. AZDHS later added AWS microservices to enhance functionality.

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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

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. The DGA goal and measurement support the Saudi 2030 Vision.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Like most financial institutions, Columbia CU offers standard financial services, such as checking and savings accounts, loans, investments, and financial planning. We developed a multi-year roadmap for cloud adoption that began by migrating our disaster recovery to the cloud, which we are on schedule to have completed by mid-2023.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

At World Water Day and the UN 2023 Water Conference , water was described as our world’s lifeblood. Essential water operations on islands, including risk management, water treatment and recycling, pressure control and leakage detection, metering and consumption management, water quality and quality monitoring, and asset management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In one case, a messaging app with more than 40 million customers notified users that their accounts were potentially revealed to hackers who breached one of their gateway providers. Wickr RAM can be installed with confidence that communications will remain secure and private, regardless of the device used.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Education institutions operate in more resource-constrained environments than organizations in many other sectors, and in this context, it can be tempting to only consider explicit cost benefits over a short-term time horizon. Moving from Data Insight to Data Action “, and ” #10.

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AccessE11

JANUARY 2, 2024

This article will highlight some of the major changes that have began throughout 2023, with notable technology and policy leading the way. It is reshaping the delivery of services and how operations are conducted. However, the integration of AI into municipal operations also brings forth concerns and challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

On the surface, the value proposition associated with cloud migration—trading up-front hardware expenses and ongoing operation and maintenance of on-premises infrastructure for on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud computing—seems like it would be very compelling to a CFO. Is it consistently reducing operating budgets?

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It features changes to the repayment/reimbursement requirements and new criteria for evaluating project proposals with a stronger focus on bolstering security, privacy and protecting against operational risks. Instead, they can spend more time leveraging digital resources to operate more effectively.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. Wonde develops innovative solutions and high-quality services so schools can operate with confidence in the security and accuracy of their data.

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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. These challenges aren’t unique to naturalization.

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