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Social media cases hinge on definition of what amounts to state action online

GCN

Supreme Court wrestled in two important cases over whether public officials acted improperly in blocking constituents on their personal social media accounts.

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Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Definition of the security controls on the customer side of the responsibility model is based on the AWS security best practices, such as AWS Security Reference Architecture or AWS Well-Architected Framework. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure.

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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

According to the National Land Bank Networks 2023 State of Land Banking Survey, vacant lots account for 86 percent of all land bank properties and half of all survey respondents listed vacant land stewardship as one of their top priorities. In response to our question, What is missing from the definition of conservancy?

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How to optimize costs for grant-based research projects with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Customers with strict procurement or cost allocation processes can consider Reserved Instances, as these can be purchased for one- or three-year terms and can secure a definitive cost. Customers have the ability to use Advance Pay to prepay for the cloud while not committing to definite usage or particular services. Savings Plans.

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Securing and automating compliance in the public sector with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower. Doing so allows your organization to: Consistently implement security and compliance across different environments, Regions, and accounts, and reduce the risk of human error.

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Aligning the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS with UK National Cyber Security Centre guidance

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Building a secure and low-code bioinformatics workbench on AWS HealthOmics

AWS Public Sector Blog

Ready2Run workflows are preconfigured workflows published by third-party publishers while private workflows are user defined using Workflow Definition Language (WDL), Common Workflow Language (CWL) or Nextflow. The repository contains detailed instructions on how to set up and configure the solution within your AWS account.

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