AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The 2024 version of the United Nations (UN) annual report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World found that about 29.6 Food security can be caused by a number of factors, including poverty, inflationary factors, violent conflict, and the effects of climate change. percent of the global population, or about 2.4

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. AWS and customers work together using the AWS shared responsibility model which, among many benefits, provides customers a framework to inherit select AWS compliance controls, such as physical security. Security Reference Architecture for U.S. commercial regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies. Customers bring their own models (BYOM) for self-hosting and inference.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, learn a quick recap on what StateRAMP is and how it differs from the similar Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ). Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. What is StateRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In critical moments when every second counts, justice and public safety ( JPS ) agencies need technology solutions that are secure, reliable, and fast. To power these essential solutions—and move agencies to the cloud securely, compliantly, and fast—CentralSquare exclusively builds on AWS infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Furthermore, the sensitive nature of genomic data mandates a secure environment for processing and storage. Solution overview The main objective of this solution is to implement version control for workflow files and establish a robust security posture by scanning for vulnerabilities in containers pulled from public repositories.

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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. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agencies can no longer rely on traditional network access methods, such as virtual private networks (VPN) and conventional wide-area network (WAN) technologies, to provide employees and users with a reliable and secure remote access experience. model for securing internet points of presence and external connections for the government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Work backward from your understanding of what AI enables you to do The AnyOrganization chief operations officer (COO) recently read an AWS blog post that addressed generative AI for the public sector. Security – This perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.

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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

JUNE 12, 2024

However, with these benefits come challenges to meet regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding data privacy and security. We also explain how LZA for Healthcare codifies HIPAA controls and AWS Security Best Practices to accelerate the creation of an environment to run protective health information workloads in AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control Microsoft Copilot for Security in Microsoft’s US Gov cloud offerings (Microsoft 365 GCC/GCC High and Azure Government) is currently unavailable and does not have an ETA for availability. Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This self-contained solution uses two 20-foot shipping containers to create an ICD-705 compliant shielded enclosure, equipped as a data center with built-in power distribution, redundant cooling (N+1), security, monitoring, fire suppression, and other essential infrastructure components.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Social Security cards, birth certificates, and proof of disability are crucial for accessing services and applying for housing. About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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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. One area of immediate concern is security. This is referred to as an AWS Landing Zone.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

It enables government agencies, educational institutions, and healthcare providers to modernize their IT infrastructure while adhering to strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Amazon Bedrock enables customers to leverage generative AI capabilities while maintaining the highest levels of security and data protection required for their Top Secret workloads.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

In a previous Public Sector Blog post , we introduced Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 overlays to help agencies securely apply TIC 3.0 Managed by NCPS, CLAW collects and analyzes agency cloud security data and allows CISA analysts to provide security situational awareness and support to the agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

India has seen significant success with some of its Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) platforms, including CoWIN , a system for managing COVID-19 vaccinations; UPI , a real-time digital payments system; DigiLocker , a secure platform for digital document storage and verification; and DIKSHA , a national platform for educational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. In this blog post, learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps customers with this along three dimensions.

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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

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In the blog post, “ Architecture framework for transforming federal customer experience and service delivery ,” we describe an architecture framework along with a curated set of services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that agencies can use to build and deploy modern applications using microservices architectures. s3-website-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com).

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform has put accounts at risk. I’ll explain the threat and the four steps your library can take right now to reduce the chances your library’s account will be cloned or hacked. S ubscribe to this blog and you’ll receive an email whenever I post. Thanks for watching!

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. High-level architecture of Automated Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Government of Canada (GC) organizations handle sensitive data, such as citizens’ personal information and confidential documents, and take on the responsibility of appropriately securing and protecting this data from unauthorized access or disclosure. DRDC had datasets consisting of geospatial imagery that were no longer being fully used.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Security and compliance: AWS supports security-sensitive standards like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) , and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Public sector customers with sensitive workloads, such as government or healthcare, are choosing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for their critical hybrid environments to benefit from the security of AWS’ infrastructure, the agility to make changes to their environments’ resources and architectures as needed, and the ability to reduce costs.

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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. It is a secure system inside the respective agency’s infrastructure accessible only on a need-to-know basis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To achieve this, a secure, performant and highly-available hybrid network is required to connect on-premises to the AWS Cloud. These customers are also required to meet security framework controls from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Medium Cloud Security Profile. instances within the Perimeter VPC.

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