AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

The outcome of this step is a mapping that defines how each applicable compliance requirement is met by AWS operated controls and customer-operated ones. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. If youd like to find out more, please contact the AWS Public Sector team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Launch a multi-account framework with AWS Control Tower For organizations that need to establish multiple AWS accounts, customers can deploy a multi-account framework on AWS with AWS Control Tower , which can help provide resource and security isolation for customers’ AWS accounts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in an account and an AWS Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations.

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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. This will help organisations think about the organisational change and operating model needed to be successful in the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. Other use cases in which the upgraded model excels include knowledge Q&A platforms, data extraction from visuals like charts and diagrams, and automation of repetitive tasks and operations. Amazon Titan Text Embedding v2. Government customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article looks at how fraud has evolved, why continuous professional development (CPD) is crucial for fraud investigators, and some practical ways to stay sharp in the fight against fraud Fraud isnt new; humans have been conning each other since the first trade deals. But in todays hyper-connected world, the game has changed.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

Banks, PSHRA-SCP, EdD, MBA, Organization Design & Development Manager, US Office of Personnel Management and Owner-operator of Banks & Banks Consulting Company, spoke on how to ensure your 2025 goals are not only set, but met. Below are a few key takeaways from that session , as well as the full recording with even more tips.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Steps for manual set up of a landing zone on AWS A landing zone is an AWS solution that enables organizations to set up a secure and scalable multi-account AWS environment. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. The developer pushes the code, it is built, deployed, and then functional testing happens. Figure 2 shows the flow for Pearson’s GitLab pipeline.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The team chose to develop the new Encounter Processing System (EPS) internally and deploy it in the cloud. Read this case study to learn how they developed a new cloud-based EPS for Medicaid in less than a year. The DHHS team knew a traditional procurement strategy would be too slow to deliver the new system on time.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

By utilizing the LZA and CID together, you can streamline the deployment process, ensure compliance with best practices, and gain valuable insights into your cloud environment, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency, enhanced security, and better-informed decision-making. An architectural diagram of the LZA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Plus, CSS realized $10.7 million in total annual AWS run rate cost optimization by the end of 2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

This document-heavy workflow, often reliant on manual processing, can result in delays, errors, and increased operational inefficiencies, causing frustration among both employees and stakeholders. This lack of transparency makes it challenging to monitor workflows, identify bottlenecks, and maintain accountability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With their in-house software development expertise, they decided to build it themselves. Building a membership platform solution on AWS Several years ago, AMA decided to invest in building out an agile software development team focused on developing in the AWS Cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the world of modern application development, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies are essential for ensuring rapid and reliable delivery of software. Note: This solution was developed and implemented by Spatial Front, Inc. This file must be accessible for nested stacks to deploy canary resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Analysis completed by the AWS Public Sector Cloud Economics (PS CE) team finds that organizations can reduce the annual operating cost of mainframe environments by up to 90 percent post-migration. AWS Cloud Economics : The first steps in beginning a mainframe migration journey is to develop a business case. One example is the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Containers also facilitate rapid development and deployment of services, allowing organizations to roll out new applications and updates quickly. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With microservices architecture, developers build an application with independent components that run each application process as a service. The static content of the SPA is hosted in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket in an AWS account in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Access to an AWS account in US-East-1.

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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. NETCCN delivers remote clinical expertise to the point of need during disasters and on the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) battlefield.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. Factors that shape legacy IT Whether in the private or public sector, legacy modernization is challenging for organizations that have a long operating history reliant on in-house systems and applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Shared Responsibility Model can help relieve a customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities where the service operates.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Satellite operators provide bandwidth allocation to each of these segments. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting which can be used to estimate future capacity needs enabling operators to make planning decisions with more confidence. This is where Amazon Forecast provides great benefit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered tool that generates real-time code in your integrated development environment (IDE) and command line. Now, developers can stream Adobe product events directly to EventBridge, which further routes to more than 20 AWS services, making it easier to build event-driven architectures.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) Governments collaborate with private sector companies, industry associations, and academic institutions to develop joint initiatives and projects to advance digital transformation. Spain launched the Aporta Initiative in 2009 to open public information and promote data-based development of modern services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Develop a governance strategy A governance strategy enables an organization to manage multiple cloud projects simultaneously in a flexible, coordinated, and interdependent way. The following tips can help your agency develop a governance strategy. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here we dive into emerging technologies that custom enterprise software developers use to keep solutions up-to-date and efficient The continuous growth of the enterprise application market, even in recession periods, is the main evidence that software solutions have become essential for companies’ operational efficiency and profitability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

The aim is to join up systems and break down data silos; build a cloud-based, event-driven architecture; incorporate technology to support net-zero carbon emission ambitions; and explore how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help operations. It takes complex business rules into account. Cloud technology makes this possible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

In this post, we discuss how organizations can effectively identify opportunities to use Spot Instances and Amazon Q Business , a generative AI powered assistant that can answer questions and provide summaries based on data and information in your enterprise systems, to develop an enhanced Spot Instance analysis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Like most financial institutions, Columbia CU offers standard financial services, such as checking and savings accounts, loans, investments, and financial planning. We developed a multi-year roadmap for cloud adoption that began by migrating our disaster recovery to the cloud, which we are on schedule to have completed by mid-2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

The new emergency amendment requires that impacted TSA-regulated entities develop an approved implementation plan that describes measures they are taking to improve their cybersecurity resilience and prevent disruption and degradation to their infrastructure. It automates security tools that have built-in governance.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Between the pandemic, record-breaking data breaches, ransomware attacks and the shift to virtual services, federal agencies are looking for ways to continue developing their technology services to meet changing needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Running tax systems on AWS supports these authorities in strengthening operations, improving constituent interactions, improving business intelligence capability, reducing costs, and innovating. Tax authorities that operate traditional tax systems as Windows workloads, typically in on-premises virtualized environments, can rehost (i.e.,

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