AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Managing costs – Select tools that help track and manage project resources to keep the budget on track. Example AWS Services: AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Dashboards Operations Solution (CUDOS; for enterprise accounts).

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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). An AWS Lambda function triggers the email in AWS GovCloud (US).

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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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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 21, 2023

is expected to continue providing significant financial support, as indicated by the President’s FY 2024 budget request. As Ukraine enters its second year of conflict with Russia following the 2022 invasion, the U.S. In addition to responding to.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of November, a survey was released that investigated how local government finance leaders feel about their current budgeting practices and their readiness to embrace modernized approaches. One cautionary note, according to the report which was titled Rethinking Budgeting: Results from the Local Government Budget Survey.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. They explained to the officers that HOPICS set them up with an account that saved all of their identifying documents when they first entered the shelter. Unable to prove they were not the perpetrator, police prepared to take the individual into custody.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2024

“Hum faltu hai [in English, “We are useless”] …I don’t even know what the budget of the council is. Nobody tells me about the procurement process [or] the number of tenders that have gone public…I don’t have enough knowledge about.

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The City Fix

JULY 16, 2024

In the stylish Grünerløkka neighborhood in Oslo, construction workers are busy rehabilitating Sophies Minde, an old medical clinic, into a new nursery school and maternal health center. Tidy piles of building materials along the perimeter of the construction site wait.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud FinOps is a financial management discipline that creates accountability around cloud usage to help your agency successfully budget for this tech.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.

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Death and Taxes

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Blog post by Whitney Afonso, Zach Mohr, and Scott Powell Questions for Practitioners: When (as in time of year) should you engage citizens in budget simulations? Can I expect trust in our government to increase if we engage citizens in budget simulations?

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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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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

UCMM has proven invaluable when talking about cyber investments not just with IT experts, but with chief financial officers, budget examiners and lawmakers, he added. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office. OK, we got $5.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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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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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. This trend highlights not just the involvement of pickleball players, but the growing influence of organized groups in community consultations.

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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

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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.”

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Field Chief Technology Officer Wade Ellery discusses identity sprawl, IAM, and how organisations can overcome identity sprawl issues and combat budget restraints. It’s also creating complexity in terms of effectively provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts when an employee joins, changes departments, or leaves the company.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. Visibility into ‘unit costs’ (for example, the cost-per-student of a solution) helps budget and product owners demonstrate a connection between the demand for an application and how this demand influences cost.

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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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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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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“I really have to dive into how I implement new technology on a limited budget,” he said. For example, an automation could enter invoices into the accounting system rather than people typing them in by hand. “There’s not a lot of room for me to say ‘It will be cool to explore this.'”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Finally, budgeting for something that has a variable operating cost complicates the process of building annual budgets. It is simple for finance leaders to focus on capital expenses, which sit in a separate budget, when thinking about the yearly cost of computing on premises compared to in the cloud.

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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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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It also means they can scale funding as project needs evolve, to make the right resources available when it counts, not just when the budget is set. You may not be able to add them to your budget now, but if the budget becomes available, youll have a great relationship in place to consider them in the future.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

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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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

A recent Government Accountability Office report highlights both the continuing benefits of telework and the challenges that agencies face, plus best practices that they should follow as they continue to adapt how they operate. The Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to bring employees back to the office post-pandemic in…

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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. get('Account') id = str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%s")) get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3") get("Account") data_bucket = " " s3 = boto3.client("s3")

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

LeMaster continues: “If someone clicks on the link, they may be directed to a phishing site and asked to provide credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens, or surveillance-ware could be installed on their device, allowing attackers to access their government accounts or monitor device activity.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2024

Agencies’ push to enhance the customer experience has reached a critical juncture, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The Office of Management and Budget has been at the forefront of this effort by setting CX goals, identifying leaders and dedicating resources to staffing and technology improvements.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. Imagine your accounts team gets hacked and, after scanning through their previously sent emails, the hackers know how to word an email to convince you it is really them. trillion for the global economy by 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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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 28, 2023

Federal grants accounted for 66 percent of state/local public welfare spending in 2020, up from 55 percent in 1977. Federal assistance helps city finances and budgets by providing resources to […] Source Federal assistance is a significant source of funding for state and local governments in the U.S.,

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