AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Using a conformance pack can take the guess work out of mapping controls to AWS features and services.

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. AWS GovCloud (US) helps meet compliance mandates, safeguard sensitive data, and protect accounts and workloads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By using the UK implementation guide for the LZA , UK customers can design environments that will help them to align to new NCSC guidance. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. What is a landing zone?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Implementing a scalable templating solution NHS England’s CCoE adopted a Well-Architected templating solution to enable a consistent review mechanism and adoption of best practices across delivery teams. Key components include central and workload accounts, AWS Step Functions, Lambda functions, EventBridge, Amazon SNS Topics, and CloudTrail.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Some US federal agencies and those who collaborate with them must support an automated, secure, and scalable multi-account cloud environment that meets Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards. Customers that need to align with CMMC 2.0 For example, CMMC 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Implementing checkpointing mechanisms is also critical to success to allow workloads to resume from their last known good state, whether on new Spot Instances or by failing over to On-Demand Instances as needed. Organizations should implement proper job tracking and task queue management to confirm that failed tasks are properly rescheduled.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Customers deploy LISA directly into an AWS account and integrate it with an identity provider (IdP). LLM inference solution for Amazon Dedicated Cloud (LISA) LLM inference solution for Amazon Dedicated Cloud (LISA) is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solution. Customers bring their own models (BYOM) for self-hosting and inference. AppStream 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Reference architecture for implementing a modern application on AWS GovCloud (US). 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. To achieve low latency, use Amazon CloudFront in an AWS account in any commercial region.

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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. The CloudFormation template provided for this proof-of-concept implements the performance tuning for metal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From recorded testimonies to jail cell conversations, audiovisual files can play an important role in accurately documenting evidence that can make or break a case. The user identifies specific words of interest to be highlighted in the document and initiates the transcription process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, we cover public sector use cases that are driving the adoption of serverless and containers, such as generative AI, data analytics, document processing, and more. Blueprints also helps you implement the relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Figure 2: Your runbook as Automation Documents. 2) Setup AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point. If you are currently using a solution like AWS Control Tower , your log data for services like AWS CloudTrail or Amazon GuardDuty are already being sent to the log archive account, as shown in Figure 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation. Implementing these changes can impact their systems and lead to the accumulation of technical debt. As a result, plans require continuous adjustments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Document security and compliance requirements – For public sector customers, minimizing security and compliance risks are integral factors to consider in the strategy to manage cloud projects. Document the requirements and then consider available solutions to meet those requirements. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The process was cumbersome, requiring teachers to upload videos onto a shareable drive and share comments haphazardly with one another through chat apps, collaborative documents, or email. Moving beyond the classroom Sibme’s tools focus on helping individual educators, but when implemented at scale, the entire school is improved.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An Aadhaar number can be used to support various government subsidies and acts as a vital proof of identity and proof of address for opening a fixed deposit account, applying for a passport, investing in mutual funds, and more. Two separate AWS accounts with administrator access for each. Create consumer VPC in separate AWS account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For example, tax revenue accounting and return processing modules would run on the same tightly coupled infrastructure despite minimal overlap in business and process functionality. Amazon Textract is an ML service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned or electronic documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

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. The business rules embedded in legacy code are often complex and poorly documented.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“I really have to dive into how I implement new technology on a limited budget,” he said. For example, an automation could enter invoices into the accounting system rather than people typing them in by hand. And then we’ve got paper documents that go back forever,” he added. How do I digitize them?

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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. This cost-free resource aims to support leaders as they grapple with implementation challenges. What are processes that could be streamlined versus areas ripe for innovation?

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Without robust policies helping to enforce, guide and limit the use of p-cards with clear consequences for violation, localities cannot hold individuals accountable and safeguard taxpayer dollars from potential inappropriate use. If p-card audits are performed timely, consistently and independently, they are an efficient control to implement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Any surviving sibling can go to SibsForever.org to create a no-cost account and build commemorative web pages for their sibling and sibling relationship, including photo and video galleries featuring themselves and their siblings. I relied heavily on documented best practices for building a resilient, secure, and scalable application.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2022

The framework agreement enables GC customers to leverage AWS by requesting an account from Shared Services Canada’s (GC’s central IT organization) Cloud Brokerage. Once they receive the account, they’re responsible for implementing security controls as required by GC policy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

The ETeams program uses a relational database to diagnose the problems small businesses face when implementing technology. The Association for Information Systems (AIS) eLibrary website further documents this process. Prerequisites To implement this solution, an AWS account is required.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides administrators with a simple way to manage identity and access (IAM) across numerous AWS accounts. Many customers with an AWS Organization in AWS GovCloud (US) simultaneously manage numerous AWS accounts in the standard Regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Figure 1 illustrates how these and other tactics support strategic modernization and tactical augmentation on a spectrum of cost and risk, as well as speed to implement and automation. Learn more about AWS Mainframe Modernization in AWS documentation. AWS Mainframe application modernization patterns.

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Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its not just fluff to keep attorneys busy; its a critical, legal document defining risks and assigning expectations and responsibilities. Schedule : The ticking clockfrom implementation to completion, close out, and acceptance. The contract lays out whos on the hook for what, from cost overruns to deadlines.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Whether you need to make strategic decisions, solve problems, or answer customer queries, you want to leverage the knowledge that is stored in your documents and databases. In this blog post, we will show you how you can use Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search to create chat bots that can answer challenging questions from your documents.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When installed inside a mobile app at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA Enterprise can block fake users and bots while allowing legitimate users to proceed. reCAPTCHA Enterprise is Google’s online fraud detection service that leverages more than a decade of experience defending the internet.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We recommend using the AWS Cloud9 IDE to simplify the deployment because it contains all of the necessary prerequisites and configuration to deploy this sample to your account with very little configuration. If you want to get started with VPC IPAM, review the following documentation. Deploy the solution 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Intelligent document processing and quality control can also optimize government operations. Intelligent document processing tools like Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend can extract and redact data, and metadata, from tax filings, notices, and payments received electronically, and handle tax classification and calculations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Students simply log into the tool using their “myHighline” account. The AWS tool yields immediate results in transparency, efficiency, and morale Implementing the AWS financial aid tool resulted in immediate benefits for Highline College. For Wrye, the simplicity of the tracking tool is part of its genius.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofits hire program staff, implement programs, and serve those in need. And that is on top of implementing their programs and serving the people. An accounting of every penny is necessary. Foundations usually request additional documentation (IRS letters, audits, financial statements, annual reports, etc.)

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