AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

In addition, there are a multitude of regulations and compliance requirements to meet, adding another layer of complexity to the already intricate web of data privacy controls. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment. In this blog post, explore the technical considerations related to integrating your LZA landing zone with your VMware Cloud on the AWS environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We previously reviewed AWS serverless and container services to build modern applications in the previous blog post, “ Modernizing public sector applications using serverless and containers.” Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.invokedBy NOT EXISTS) && ($.eventType

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Centre’s work has involved 300-plus AWS accounts across various groups, including external collaborators, UBC staff, students, and researchers. High-level technical solution AWS recommends using AWS Control Tower as a foundational landing zone for managing multi-account environments with prescriptive controls.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Some US federal agencies and those who collaborate with them must support an automated, secure, and scalable multi-account cloud environment that meets Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards. Customers that need to align with CMMC 2.0 For example, CMMC 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

In a previous Public Sector Blog post , we introduced Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point. NCPS recommends delivering logs from the central logging account when possible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

With an IT staff of four, the Library District completed a successful migration in six months with help from their AWS account team. Read related stories on the AWS Public Sector Blog: How to migrate on-premises workloads with AWS Application Migration Service. Migrating to AWS: From ideation to launch in six months.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Implementing the required controls for AWS Marketplace under the Navy BPA Navy commands can now use AWS Marketplace from their AWS account IDs, by following the procedures in the DoN ESL Ordering Guide for AWS. Companies improve their vendor onboarding processes, reducing the effort required to onboard a new vendor by as much as 75 percent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

With LZA, you can better manage and govern your multi-account environments that have highly regulated workloads such as those in the public sector. The major components are the management account pipeline resources, the log archive account centralized logging resources, and your workload accounts.

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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. The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution AWS built the LZA solution to significantly reduce the time it takes for customers to set-up a landing zone designed to align with compliance goals in highly regulated industries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An Aadhaar number can be used to support various government subsidies and acts as a vital proof of identity and proof of address for opening a fixed deposit account, applying for a passport, investing in mutual funds, and more. Two separate AWS accounts with administrator access for each. Create consumer VPC in separate AWS account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Access to AWS GovCloud (US) is restricted to US entities and root account holders who have successfully passed a thorough screening process. The AWS TSE-SE provides a reference architecture that is a comprehensive, multi-account AWS cloud architecture targeting sensitive level workloads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

AWS Control Tower streamlines multi-account setups to onboard multiple researchers to a cloud platform quicklyin compliance with necessary regulations for every account in the environment. However, researchers must still follow best practices to maintain data security, such as avoiding identifiable names for storage buckets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Patient data is sensitive and in many jurisdictions processing, access, and storage of patient data is regulated by government entities. In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information. Figure 10.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

These solutions can also help organizations share data while complying with regulations and security best practices. These tasks include processing daily banking transactions, managing accounts, and updating financial records.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

After you submit the form, we will contact the primary account owner within two business days. If you are unsure who the primary account owner is, contact your AWS account team. To learn more about AWS Modular Data Center , contact your AWS account representative.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The common reasons customers may need to invoke Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in a standard account from an AWS GovCloud (US) account (or vice versa) include: cross-domain applications, feature parity, and if the AWS service doesn’t exist in AWS GovCloud (US). Why AWS GovCloud (US)?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

This lack of transparency makes it challenging to monitor workflows, identify bottlenecks, and maintain accountability. This increases the risk of data breaches and puts agencies in jeopardy of violating strict compliance regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

How PDNS services work Organisations in the public sector, and other regulated industries, often have a need to ensure that important workloads or devices are not easily compromised. Preventing workloads from making requests to malicious websites, by stopping the workload from being able to resolve a DNS name, is an important step.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector government transformation specialists researched what technology leaders in government and in the highly regulated private sector believe their main IT challenges are. This impacts the priority status of legacy IT remediation efforts. we can invest in common elements and try to reuse them….

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Their existing partner provided infrastructure services but lacked expertise in healthcare application management, which is crucial for digitization efforts in their regulated segment. Additionally, the solution incorporated robust governance and control mechanisms to ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

This blog post is provided for information purposes only and is not part of, and does not modify, any agreement between AWS or any customer. Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help credit unions prepare for audits, assess security posture, and produce documentation for state or federal regulators.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Addressing cloud compliance and audit-related questions In the blog post, “ Announcing Cloud Audit Academy AWS-specific for audit and compliance teams ,” we discussed how auditing security in the cloud has become one of the fastest growing questions among AWS customers. to AWS workloads AWS selected for U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. AWS GovCloud (US) helps meet compliance mandates, safeguard sensitive data, and protect accounts and workloads.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This blog post provides an overview of their migration experience and how other healthcare organizations can fulfill compliance requirements with AWS. Beyond that, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) holds paramount importance for healthcare organizations handling sensitive data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

This blog post will explain why consumer messaging apps are a bad choice and why Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wickr is an appropriate solution for US government customers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In this blog post, we show you how to deploy CloudWatch canaries using a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodeCommit , AWS CodeBuild , AWS CodePipeline , and AWS CloudFormation. The S3 buckets will be named c wsyn-code-{AWS ACCOUNT NUMBER}-us-east-1 and cwsyn-results-{AWS ACCOUNT NUMBER}-us-east-1 respectively.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

In the first blog of this series, we looked at the System and Information Integrity family of requirements (3.14) in the draft of NIST 800-171r3, which covers flaw remediation, malicious code protection, security alerts via advisories and directives, and system monitoring. Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These issues compound for sharing data outside the organization, as this requires organizations to address several rules and regulations that govern the access and sharing of data. In this blog post, learn key Amazon Web Services (AWS) concepts and services that can help agencies modernize their cloud and data architecture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare institutions have the opportunity to accelerate their move to the cloud, but first they need more clarity in how to manage healthcare data governance securely and in compliance with all regulations. Look to solutions like allow listing countries that provide acceptable protections for the data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

AWS provides healthcare organizations with regulatory and compliance support, thanks to its strong track record of compliance with relevant healthcare regulations, including certifications like the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) in Germany, the Hebergement de Données de Santé (HDS) in France, and HIPAA in the US.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

The new emergency amendment requires that impacted TSA-regulated entities develop an approved implementation plan that describes measures they are taking to improve their cybersecurity resilience and prevent disruption and degradation to their infrastructure. It automates security tools that have built-in governance.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

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