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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Some of the key capabilities and benefits of the Generative AI Sandbox on AWS include: Secure, governed, and isolated environment – Deploy to an isolated Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control who can access the sandbox and what actions they can perform.

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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

Driven by the need for convenience, real-time conversations, and anywhere, anytime access, electronic messaging has become a go-to means of communication. In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies.

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Automating multi-channel communication for school bus delays

AWS Public Sector Blog

Communication with parents is a must for school districts. In this blog post, I walk through how to set up a solution that enables school districts to notify a targeted group of parents about school bus breakdowns and delays via the parent’s preferred method of communication (i.e.,

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Maximizing satellite communications usage with Amazon Forecast

AWS Public Sector Blog

Satellite communications (satcom) serve a wide range of industries such as telecommunications, broadcasting, military, aviation and maritime, and emergency services. It uses Amazon Forecast to build a time series predictor model for each satellite beam in the ship(s) path, accounting for the impact of weather conditions in a given location.

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Improving Communication Could Strengthen Federal Efforts to Prevent the Next Major Cyberattack

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

We’ve already seen what can happen when one of the nation’s critical services is disrupted by a cyberattack. In May 2021, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline led to the temporary disruption of gasoline and petroleum product delivery across much.

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AWS expands program offering low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns and committees

AWS Public Sector Blog

Wickr allows our Senate campaigns to conduct private and encrypted communications, which is critical to them increasing their security posture,” said Ryan Borkenhagen, director of information security and technology for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

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Landing Zone Accelerator connectivity with VMware Cloud on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Important account considerations for connected VPC First, decide the account you will use for the virtual private cloud (VPC) that is connected to the VMware SDDC during SDDC deployment.