AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

By relying on managed services, ASTERRA can reduce the operational overhead and focus on their innovation efforts. The platform also integrates metrics that help organizations evaluate their impact and implement strategies in alignment with United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The project kicked off in February 2021 and the new web and cloud-based offender management system (OMS) went live in May 2023. Implementations like these routinely take several years, and project failures are common. This story demonstrates that implementation can be accelerated without compromising quality.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona, discusses the future of open source in 2023, including why platforms will matter more. It protects what they see as ‘their’ revenues and keeps them operational. It provides that simple cloud user experience, but without being tied to a specific operator.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Besides traffic management, digital twins can also be used in other areas of government operations, such as asset management and emergency response. Overall, the use of digital twins in public sector operations can streamline process efficiencies, reduce operational costs, and improve service delivery to citizens.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Andrew Buss, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Innovation Management, and Innovation Manager Tara Woody offered their wisdom about how to implement innovations and keep momentum going. The innovations of today are the operations of tomorrow. It’s not an end-of-the week tack-on to regular duties; it is the duty.

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

Today at the IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference , Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2023 AWS IMAGINE Grant cycle. The 2023 AWS IMAGINE Grant guidelines and instructions are now available for download. Through the AWS IMAGINE Grant, AWS discovers nonprofits that are bringing high-impact technology projects to life.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Improving mission performance with generative AI Simultaneously, Thorn has been investigating how they can implement generative AI to streamline internal operations so staff can be more effective and better serve their constituents. One particular focus area for Thorn’s infrastructure team has been internal customer support.

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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. Implemented judiciously, such strategy empowers evidence-based governance through democratized data.

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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. He has considerable expertise in strategic technology, portfolio management, solution delivery, software engineering, integration, and operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The right cloud technology leads to more sustainable IT and business operations. As a foundation for innovation, the cloud supports the delivery of sustainable products, services, and business models, and gives organizations the opportunity to transform themselves with sustainability at the core of their operation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

To support the growing community and its needs, Thoughtworks formed the Bahmni Coalition of open source developers and implementation partners. CURE has rolled out Bahmni across its hospitals in Africa to create standardized operations, which can be adapted for country-specific elements including language.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Robin Campbell-Burt, CEO at Code Red, discusses cybersecurity regulations in 2023 and how they will shape our futures. What cybersecurity trends can we expect to see in 2023? The US took the lead in implementing regulations after the Colonial Pipeline attack and Biden’s 100-day sprint initiative. © Anyaberkut.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

The AWS IMAGINE Grant may provide resources such as unrestricted funding, AWS Promotional Credit, and technical implementation support to help organizations accelerate their projects. Now in its seventh year, the AWS IMAGINE Grant is expanding beyond the U.S. to also seek proposals from eligible organizations based in Ireland.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Some embrace AIs potential, while others remain cautious, concerned about ethical implications and the complexity of implementation. billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $6 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 43 percent between 2023 and 2032, according to recent research.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Enhancing visibility for the Navy Yard and the greater community Since implementing Rekor’s technology in January 2022, the Navy Yard has gained illuminating insights into what’s happening on their roadways. In turn, these insights have directly benefited the Navy Yard in their planning and daily operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In a subset from a new Gallup and AWS survey , 70% of 845 healthcare business and IT leaders from 19 countries indicated that digital technologies need to be implemented to improve their organization’s performance. Apply by January 8, 2023. Applications open today and must be submitted no later than January 8, 2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

provides innovative services to organizations operating in the automotive and transportation sectors, offering real-time parking and traffic information and solutions for road safety. In this post, we discuss a highly successful customer hackathon we recently supported, called Innovation Week. INRIX: Transforming mobility INRIX, Inc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Here at AWS, we are proud to support their next-level use cases to enable customer mission success, based on our longtime expertise in implementing reliable, secure solutions with DoD contractors. These technologies help the DoD achieve their mission goals and align with the 2023 Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy.

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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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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 30, 2023

As we prepare for the second half of 2023, it’s vital to take a moment and consider the exciting developments on the horizon in the realm of ChatGPT and generative AI, and more specifically, how these advancements could influence the landscape of grant writing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction Eutelsat Group , the world’s first satellite operator to provide an integrated geosynchronous equatorial and low-Earth orbit (GEO-LEO) infrastructure, recently migrated their existing on-premises commercial Hadoop cluster to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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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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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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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. Max Grundig Klinik oversees approximately 40 mission-critical applications, encompassing EHRs, HIS, PACS, and DHRs. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Public Schools (GCPS), the business value of implementing cyber resiliency and disaster recovery (CR and DR) initiatives—which the school embarked on with AWS in 2023—is multifaceted. “CR Streamline the procurement and implementation of security software Procurement is a major pain point for many school IT leaders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). Patch Manager can apply patches for both operating systems and applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

AWS Snowblade meets US Military Ruggedization Standards, enabling defense customers to run their operations and manage demanding workloads in edge locations that can be subject to extreme operating conditions. Learn more about AWS Snowblade.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

The LZA helps establish platform readiness with security, compliance, and operational capabilities. For additional information on how to get started with the solution, please reference the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS – Implementation Guide. It is important to note that the LZA solution will not by itself make you compliant.

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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

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. Operating fire lookout towers can serve as a pilot for more rapid wildfire detection.

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