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. For this blog post, we provide an example of an LZA landing zone, which implements strong segregation of your development, test, and production accounts by default.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The team carefully considered execution methods to prevent unintended disruptions, including options like a sidecar or using AWS Systems Manager documents to accomplish experiments with actions that are not natively supported by the service today. In parallel, FIS runs the Systems Manager document for CPU/memory stress.

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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. Austin, TX Revir Technologies, Inc.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Ltd, said, “The Generative AI TTM helped us assess our generative AI capabilities, structure our marketing communications, and build a targeted go-to-market strategy to reach our customers.” Bhavesh Goswami, Founder and CEO of CloudThat Technologies Pvt.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) networks typically offer a rich set of performance metrics, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth delivered by remote terminals on land, sea, or air. Network layout for a typical satellite communications service with analytics applied.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information. In this post, we present an architecture that uses the Wickr messaging solution for protected communication with a generative AI backend system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services ( AWS) Ground Station is a cloud-based service that provides you with an opportunity to perform communication sessions with your satellite without spending a fortune on your own ground station infrastructure. You can also get JPSS-1 onboarded to your account for the CPE public beta.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

These templates are deployed across AWS workload accounts, the security account (capture memory, artifacts), and the forensic account (investigate and analyze). AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) access to forensic GUI. The framework is deployed using a series of predefined AWS CloudFormation templates.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Slab is a knowledge management tool and wiki. Overview of Slab.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Empowering individuals with ownership of their own data Starting in July 2023, hundreds of staff at the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System ( HOPICS ) began using Kiip to store documents, complete forms and applications, and streamline communications with incoming customers.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z are all mingling in the office these days, and that can present a challenge when it comes to communicating effectively. Generational Communication Preferences: Do you know the preferred communication methods of each generation? Key Takeaways 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Improving the customer experience (CX) of web applications provided by the US federal government is an executive priority, and part of the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). These services communicate via a well-defined interface using lightweight APIs. Access to an AWS account in US-East-1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As an IT leader for digital citizen services, you need to automate incident management runbooks. With this mental model in mind, here are the three steps to implement it in practice, starting with an existing asset: your incident management runbook. 1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Amazon Bedrock is a scalable, fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing FMs from leading AI companies through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsibility. If you have questions or feedback, please contact your AWS Account Team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

East-west traffic describes communication within the cloud environment, such as between different applications or services in various subnets or VPCs. East-west traffic can also include communication between the AWS Cloud and on-premises data centers connected via AWS Direct Connect or other private connectivity solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. To deploy the solution in your AWS account, request the onboarding of SNPP and follow these instructions in the GitHub repository.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Good performance management should be happening year-round. But for too many employees and managers, the annual review and goal-setting process—if it happens at all—is the only time they think about performance management. The agency also provides support for supervisors throughout the year.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

According to a 2024 survey by public sector HR management company, NEOGOV , which explored the effects of the ongoing hiring crisis on the public sector, 33% of agencies report impacts to service. And while the number of citizens increases, the local sheriff’s office is faced with a familiar challenge: an ongoing shortage of officers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Fachklinikum Mainschleife manages around 30 critical applications, including electronic health records (EHRs), health information systems (HIS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and practice management systems. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts.

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Super Library Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This happened because we had a messy, unorganized internal communications strategy. If we were having problems getting information to staff about a fun event, we were really in trouble when it came to communicating the information they needed to do their work properly. Internal communications: marketing’s forgotten stepchild.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors. The cloud-based DPS immediately improved communication in multidisciplinary oncology teams.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Building modern applications with containers Containers are lightweight, versatile, and portable units that are revolutionizing the way modern applications are built, deployed, and managed. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Access to AWS GovCloud (US) is restricted to US entities and root account holders who have successfully passed a thorough screening process. It converts data centers from fixed infrastructure, which is difficult to build and manage, to a service that is direct, scalable, and responsive to temporary compute and storage needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Do before March 13: In your AWS account, identify your existing Wideband DigIF stacks which you want to have operational after March 28, and collect AWS CloudFormation templates for them. Please contact your AWS account team in case the contact doesn’t work as expected. We call them customer “legacy” CloudFormation templates.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cloud migrations and microservices can create opportunities for WIC administrators and technologists to plug-and-play solutions that assist beneficiaries with WIC applications, case management, reduced administrative burden, and engagement in their health, while continuing to leverage their current technical solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Innovating for MVD communications MVD wanted to expand what could be done with the Kyndryl service desk. Kyndryl, which has more than 24 years of experience as a managed service provider for ADOT, developed a solution to address the agency’s needs. Learn more about Kyndryl and explore their solutions in the AWS Marketplace.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The Canadian government’s Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) program Beyond the Cloud trains people and upskills employees for essential roles such as cloud architects, engineers, and administrators. Aporta, backed by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service provides insights on how to manage open data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Applications communicate with back-end microservices via Amazon API Gateway. Payment events are routed from a separate AWS account to a membership account using Amazon EventBridge, decoupling the dependency between the two accounts. Adopting serverless technology was a game-changer.

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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). Key/value secret in Secrets Manager. Why AWS GovCloud (US)?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Carbyne APEX transitioned the call center from analog to a digital interface that is smartphone-friendly and allows operators to communicate with callers via live video. By migrating to APEX, Guernsey County managed to eliminate hardware costs and consolidate various operating expenses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Every constituent has a different set of circumstances that dictates how and when they prefer to communicate. Improve load management Voice- and text-based chat assistants maintain continuity of service even when the contact center is closed. Also, visit the AWS for labor and workforce main page and the Do More with AWS page.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This well-conceived integration involves elements such as fortified data governance, real-time monitoring and audit capabilities, and a robust identity and access management (IAM) framework based on the principle of least privilege. To achieve data protection, Fachklinikum Mainschleife used AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for encryption.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Real-time data is the lynchpin for any progressive government , enabling it to improve efficiency, enhance operations and communications, provide improved services for citizens, uncover fraud and lower the risk of cyberattacks. Government data is maintained through protective security policies and risk management centrally and locally.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes. Managing privacy, security, and compliance obligations When building for public trust, data responsibility becomes paramount.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nonprofits are using the cloud for fundraising, donor and member management, and communications. In 2021, Nonprofit Trends Report, Fourth Edition reports that 36% of nonprofits invested in new technology such as customer relationship management systems (CRMs), collaboration and productivity tools, machine learning (ML), and automation.

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