Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Step outside the scope, and change orders start piling up along with the potential to expand budgets and schedules. Budget : The cash pile fueling the jobhow much the owner needs to spend before the well runs dry. CMAR (Construction Manager at Risk) : Contractor in early, builds with a price capteamwork meets accountability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This cost estimate would translate to a budget request, and when approved by the organization’s leadership, IT could turn a requisition into procurement. A contract—typically in the form of a purchase order—is issued, the equipment is ordered and shipped, and once the IT department confirmed receipt, the invoice is paid by accounts payable.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

It expands on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, providing detailed guidance and recommendations that account for the special set of legal, legislative, accountability, and trust requirements that governments have – and helps them deliver meaningful outcomes on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, learn how traditional connectivity methods affect the agency employee experience while accessing applications. recognizes the need to account for multiple and diverse security architectures, rather than a single perimeter security approach. environment. Get started with this AWS Verified Access Workshop.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While budget-conscious K12 organizations might be reluctant to invest in new initiatives, the cloud allows the chance to experiment—and even expand—successful programs. There were many variables to account for—language, culture, urban versus rural—as they approached potential new locations. Learn more at AWS for Education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog post, I discuss strategies to consider when deciding to migrate to the cloud. Finally, budgeting for something that has a variable operating cost complicates the process of building annual budgets. Does it regularly underspend its capital budget? Is it consistently reducing operating budgets?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This blog post provides an overview of their migration experience and how other healthcare organizations can fulfill compliance requirements with AWS. According to current best practices , between 5-7 percent of a company’s IT budget should be spent on cybersecurity. percent of their IT budgets in 2022.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, a recent directive from the US Government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requires all US federal government agencies to transition to electronic records by June 30, 2024.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This blog post shares the lessons learned from Intelsat’s successful domain migration with AWS. To accomplish this, Intelsat utilized their AWS account team and AWS Enterprise Support ’s cloud domain expertise to identify the AWS resources that required a DNS change and establish a migration strategy for each AWS resource type.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This blog post outlines the profitability framework that Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses with customers. At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. EdTech leaders must strike the right balance of investment to drive growth, and a return on investment for their owners.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

"The Toledo Chamber’s jointly funded venture with the City is the first of its kind public-private partnership in the world to bring Priority Based Budgeting into a community." At the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) , we're constantly impressed and amazed at just how innovative local government communities can be.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Each year, US federal, state, and local government agencies spend a significant part of their budgets on various social and safety net programs. All code snippets in this blog post are in Python3.8 get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s")) get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s"))

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

This blog post provides a recap of the highlights from the sustainability briefing. Hilary Tam, AWS principal sustainability transformation lead, noted that IDC Europe, a leading research consultancy, identified that 62 percent of large EMEA organisations will spend at least 5 percent of their IT budgets on sustainability actions in 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

With support from our account team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Easterseals established a data lake to better understand and define the impact our organization has on its participants with the overarching goal of empowering all people to to achieve their potential and live meaningful lives.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. Financial Literacy: Grant writers often work on budget development and financial projections. This financial literacy is relevant to jobs in finance, accounting, and budget management.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

To see for yourself, check out the below top 50 city government blogs. Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Top City Mayor Blogs. These mayors run larger cities and blog all about it. Stop here for the blog of Antonio R.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. Establish accountability mechanisms – Mechanisms designed to monitor modernization progress and associated expenditure can hold the organization accountable, even when leadership or policy changes are frequent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Radiology centers face many challenges, like shortages in personnel and budget; interoperability issues between different IT systems and long-term storage of images; and strict laws and regulations regarding IT security and data protection. For over two decades, this medical data has been stored in on-premise data centers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 31, 2023

They need training that helps them understand the key concepts of a modern data architecture so they can make more informed decisions with their finite technological resources and help their staff innovate without breaking the budget. To meet this need, AWS created the ‘ Art of Now for Public Health ’ training pathway.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. AWS will review DTO fee waiver requests at the account level. Customers don’t need to close their accounts or change their relationship with AWS.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2024

“We needed to start fresh with a ‘mobile first’ mindset, simplify the navigation structure, integrate new event software that made our program calendar more visually appealing, and incorporate a blog to position ourselves as thought leaders in our community and the larger Wyoming library community.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

AWS Marketplace simplifies contracting with multiple sellers, helps optimize software licensing costs, and maintains visibility across all accounts, thereby making it simpler and more cost-effective to track and manage software spending. The third decision was how to allocate the funds.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 20, 2024

Resource Allocation: Optimize budget planning and resource distribution. Finance departments can use Copilot in Excel to perform complex budget scenario analyses and generate easy-to-understand reports for stakeholders, making the budget process more efficient and transparent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

This blog post presents guidance for those procurement practices that can be used when an AMC is looking to solicit cloud services for a data center migration separate from the integration services to perform the migration. Describe the access management and encryption tools you have available.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Being a start-up and a charity, Concerts for Carers does not have large budgets for DevOps teams, and we needed to find a solution that worked out of the box with minimal ongoing management. “The choice to use AWS as the underlying technology platform was driven by three key factors: scalability, performance, and operational simplicity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity. We have a limited budget. If you would like to learn more about Cloud Economics, please contact your AWS account team or the AWS Public Sector team directly. Nous avons un budget limité. Why can’t we just focus on price?

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 11, 2022

Budgets and personnel resources are not easy to come by for mitigation efforts; thus, one avenue worth exploring is simplification and unification of data governance. For most of the blog, we’ve focused primarily on sensitive PII data living on server infrastructure in Azure (IaaS).

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zencity

AUGUST 6, 2023

And whilst inflation fell to 7.9% in June , this gives the average person little to celebrate, with prices still increasing fairly rapidly.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 22, 2023

This blog draws from a Feb. Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series. Where possible, place risk and internal control functions within the same office.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

MAY 30, 2024

Key Elements of Optimized Project Design In our past blog posts, we discussed the feasibility study as well as the framework as the foundation. Budgeting —To conduct a project or program effectively, you must understand the cost of running it. You must factor in – who, what, where, why, when, and how.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Resource Allocation: Optimize budget planning and resource distribution. Finance departments can use Copilot in Excel to perform complex budget scenario analyses and generate easy-to-understand reports for stakeholders, making the budget process more efficient and transparent.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 23, 2023

This blog draws from an Oct. This blog draws from an Oct. Read our blog posts, “ The 3 stages of cloud adoption ” and “ Providing a secure cloud for agency applications , ” for recaps of the first two webinars in the series. Account for value-add for employees and customers, even if it can’t be explicitly counted.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 28, 2024

This blog post delves into practical strategies for nonprofits seeking to enhance their grant writing skills and secure necessary funding during challenging periods. Budget cuts can lead to smaller grants or fewer funding opportunities, requiring nonprofits to do more with less.

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Grant Central USA

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the world of grant writing course "Grant Writing Classes: How to Kickstart Educational Innovation with Winning Proposals." Budget and Justification: Educators are taught how to build a comprehensive budget that includes all necessary expenses. This is where grant writing comes into play.

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