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.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

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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.” What is a landing zone?

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 20, 2024

This powerful tool combines large language models (LLMs) with your organization’s data to enhance productivity and innovation in the public sector. Security and Compliance: Our Top Priority Security and compliance are at the core of our commitment to public sector customers.

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 21, 2025

Since 2001, Rockford Associates has completed over 700 audits and recovered over 100 million on behalf of private and public sector clients completely risk-free. Over those 24 years, Rockford has collated a lot of data! Please do get in touch; our contact details are below. International.

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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

MAY 1, 2025

Further, as Medicaid agencies face budget and workforce shortages, they are trying to do more with less and maximize efficiency. HHS workloads can be effectively isolated in dedicated accounts with data stored in U.S. AWS Trusted Advisor provides checks to help customers maintain their security posture for regulated HHS workloads.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

For the public sector, a transparent and stakeholder-focused sustainability strategy leads to an increased likelihood of citizen behavioural change, with resulting societal benefits. The main takeaway is that sustainability transformation takes time – but every step along the journey can be meaningful.

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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. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In this post, we will explore best practices and solutions for public sector organizations seeking to use the cloud for open data, specifically examining how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can enable open data success.

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GovLoop

APRIL 30, 2025

How to Handle the Evolving Cyber Landscape Agencies have always understood the importance of a secure network, but now cyber professionals also must account for changing policies and mandates. Fortunately, new technologies, processes and workforce improvements are helping government keep up. Join us online Wednesday, May 7 at 2 p.m.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 1, 2025

This success story highlights Estonias advantage: a public sector ready for AI. Strong and accountable leadership that asked the right questions from the outset. What are your budget constraints? Public opinion and ethical implications are critical for adoption. What do they likely have in common?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A more flexible architectural approach to enable remote access In September 2019, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-19-26 , which replaced prior TIC-related memorandums and introduced TIC 3.0 Read related blog posts on the AWS Public Sector Blog: How US federal agencies can apply TIC 3.0

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment. In Germany, hospitals only invested about 2.2

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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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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This powerful tool combines large language models (LLMs) with your organization’s data to enhance productivity and innovation in the public sector. Security and Compliance: Our Top Priority Security and compliance are at the core of our commitment to public sector customers.

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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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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. We walk through a general intelligent document processing (IDP) workflow, and explore how each step in the workflow involves part of the benefit application process for public sector agencies.

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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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.”

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 15, 2023

In June of last year, the UK government laid out its 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, emphasising ‘transforming for a digital future’ How will this impact the public sector? Simultaneously, we are moving on from the vast recruitment into the public sector during the pandemic.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Additionally, it’s important to take technical advantages into account when comparing price, so AMCs can estimate how much their true total cost of ownership will be.

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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. What’s next?

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 14, 2023

The public sector recorded more global incidents and data breaches than any other over the past year, according to a recent Verizon study. GovAssure is the government’s response to surging threat levels in the public sector. But by reaching out to private sector security experts, there is a way forward.

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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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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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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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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

We agree that officers should be held accountable and that strong actions are needed to prevent racial profiling. But while our administration supports efforts to make law enforcement more transparent, more just, and more accountable, this bill would take officers away from policing our streets and engaging with the community.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 21, 2024

Boon said that state CIOs must constantly ask “what’s next” to modernize manual app testing to keep pace with public expectations and drive innovation. To meet these expectations, state CIOs need to deliver quality experiences on public-facing applications that prioritize security and accessibility.

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