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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. In the 1980s and 1990s, a lack of appropriate IT solutions meant they developed bespoke software and systems on mainframe platforms to manage their core business. billion) of its current IT spending.

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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. Successful EdTechs balance innovation (for example, new features or technology, like generative artificial intelligence (AI) ) with managing costs – both of product development and of operating costs for customer environments.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With that in mind, DHS developed the Unified Cybersecurity Maturity Model (UCMM), a framework that “allows us to tie the investment dollars to the cybersecurity of a [high-priority] program and its component systems,” Baidwan said. Now the department’s Chief Information Security Officer, Baidwan puts it this way: “OK, we got $5.

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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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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Even if the job itself is not directly related to grant writing, many of the skills you develop in writing and implementing grants strongly relate to superior job attributes. Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines.

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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 21, 2024

AWS serverless services such as AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate , Amazon Aurora , and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enable developers to build applications that can respond to variable load, with lower running costs during quieter times.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Financial planning needs to be understood as a positive feature of digital transformation, even if it means changing how financial plans are developed and managed. Finally, budgeting for something that has a variable operating cost complicates the process of building annual budgets. Is it consistently reducing operating budgets?

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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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

IT professionals develop a list of needed equipment and get a cost estimate for that equipment. This cost estimate would translate to a budget request, and when approved by the organization’s leadership, IT could turn a requisition into procurement. How are cloud solutions different than legacy technology? Vendor Insights.

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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. As of May 2023, the legacy systems at the Department of Transportation and the Office of Personnel Management were languishing in antiquity, with no modernization plans developed.

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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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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. This can be achieved by developing a low-code application.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Three main challenges local communities face are obtaining information based on: Current conditions: Most available flood risk information is based on historical hydrologic data and does not account for extreme rainfall events. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and U.S. annual chance events.

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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

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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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Programming for Success with Chris Bass From developing program ideas, evaluating success, and managing teams, there’s so much to know when it comes to recreation programming. It’s one of the most rewarding elements of a parks and recreation career – to develop programs that make a difference in the community. low participation?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

VPN and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology developed in a time when applications primarily existed in an on-premises data center and a security perimeter around the data center was all that agencies needed. Do you want to learn more and get hands-on experience with AWS Verified Access?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 31, 2023

To meet this need, public health agencies can upskill staff and develop a new generation of public health professionals who are equipped to work in a modern data architecture. These pathways are designed for public health professionals to learn more about the cloud and the AWS services that can help them on their modernization journey.

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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. Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human review systems or managing large numbers of human reviewers.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We develop proposals that demonstrate what is going on and how we can help, usually within a minimal character count within an online portal that was not meant for grant applications. (No We tease out the research that explains the community’s need. No stress there.) Then we do it again. No, we cannot do whatever we want with grant funding.

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 27, 2023

Local governments in North Carolina are required to engage citizens in their budget process by following the guidelines set forth by the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act. In addition to these legal requirements, many local governments in North Carolina have taken further steps to engage citizens in the budget process.

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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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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). That’s proving to be a costly assumption as those systems remain in place.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

4: Develop relationships with funders. I get more questions about budgets and nonprofit financial information than any other component of grant writing. This is such a huge topic, but I will say that one of the first things you need to do if you haven’t already is hire an accountant who specializes in nonprofits.

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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. Additionally, change management is essential as teams shift left towards iterative development and automated deployments. Nous avons un budget limité. Why can’t we just focus on price? What’s next?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. Organizations like the MRSC or IBO provide a lot of deep research which is almost uniformly lacking when it comes to DC policy development and program practice. More of that, please."

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 21, 2024

During the breakout session “The Expanding Realm of Today’s CIO,” Thomas Boon , CIO of California’s Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), discussed that technology doesn’t stay around for decades like it used to.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

MAY 30, 2024

Activity Planning – After you’ve developed your SMART Goals, it is time to put them into action! Budgeting —To conduct a project or program effectively, you must understand the cost of running it. A well-defined budget provides clarity and transparency about a project or organization’s financial needs and objectives.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Where once both hardware and software could be budgeted as one-time purchases, cloud-based solutions require ongoing contracts that need a maintenance-style budget. In a recent GovLoop online training , Jim Helou, WW Leader of Business Development for AWS Marketplace Public Sector, talked about new ways of choosing and buying tech.

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By some accounts, Connecticut is a whopping 85,000 units short of workforce housing. Most recently, the budget proposed by the governor includes $200 million in incentives for developers to construct workforce-related housing in our state.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

But developing a request for proposal (RFP) for a data center migration to the cloud can be challenging for organizations who have not used cloud at scale yet. Part 3 offers a structure in which to develop evaluation criteria for a cloud solicitation, and AMCs can populate the weightings they feel are most appropriate.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Accounting Tools. Creating user accounts with limited access can help ensure your nonprofit maintains effective data security. . DNL OmniMedia’s guide to nonprofit consulting firms recommends factoring consulting costs into your overall budget when purchasing new software. Accounting Tools. Grant Management Software.

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