AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, a recent directive from the US Government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requires all US federal government agencies to transition to electronic records by June 30, 2024.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? What is StateRAMP? 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

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies. Customers bring their own models (BYOM) for self-hosting and inference.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

AWS Artifact is a self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides customers with on-demand access to AWS compliance documentation and AWS agreements. One important aspect of this foundation is organizing the AWS environment following a multi-account strategy. Security Insights for U.S. SLG Customers on AWS With AWS, U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower. You can also manually upload evidence such as documentation or other sources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Modular Data Center (MDC) is a service that enables rapid deployment of AWS managed data centers for running location- or latency-sensitive applications in locations with limited infrastructure. Start by completing and submitting the contact form on the AWS MDC page in the AWS Management Console (Figure 2).

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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

MAY 1, 2025

As states continue to transition towards more modular architectures and look for efficiencies, adopting an ODS is vital in maintaining cohesive and effective data management. The ODS should catalog data, perform quality checks, manage master data, and use a business glossary to produce actionable insights.

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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

MAY 17, 2024

By embracing a scalable approach through the use of Well-Architected templates and integrating these practices directly into the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), NHS England markedly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of their cloud solution management.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

AWS third-party audit attestation documents are used to determine inherited controls and what required controls may be remaining for customers to implement in their environment. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Healthcare practitioners rely on specialized knowledge such as publications in medical research, caregiving techniques, treatment plans, and policy documents. In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information.

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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. Document Your Progress: Keeping track of your goals doesn’t have to be fancy.

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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. Review the solution documentation and baseline architecture First, read through the LZA solution overview and LZA operations guidance.

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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

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. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Managed by NCPS, CLAW collects and analyzes agency cloud security data and allows CISA analysts to provide security situational awareness and support to the agencies. Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point.

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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

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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. See the documentation about the Data Delivery Key.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Managing donors, members, and constituents is essential to the success of most nonprofits. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are an important part of this process. A common challenge that many users encounter with open source CRMs is a lack of documentation related to deploying them in the cloud.

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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). 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

An AWS account. First, authorize MathWorks Cloud Center to access your AWS account to create clusters and run batch jobs. Log into MathWorks Cloud Center and choose the Cloud Accounts tab at the top of the page; a dialog window may appear. Authorize AWS account on MathWorks Cloud Center. Review and create the policy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Alternatively, you can access the APIs directly inside of your account, if you are building your application directly on top of AWS HealthLake. In either case, data is encrypted in transit and at rest using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Architecture pattern for data ingestion across diverse health data systems.

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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. Serverless capabilities – Microservices can use serverless computing, where the underlying infrastructure is managed by the cloud provider.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1980s and 1990s, a lack of appropriate IT solutions meant they developed bespoke software and systems on mainframe platforms to manage their core business. These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation.

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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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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. Open AWS Secrets Manager page in AWS console.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Maria spends hours reading through information on websites and reviewing publicly available documents to understand the benefits she may be eligible for and the application process. Additionally, she must provide various proof documents, such as pay stubs, bills, and identification, which may not be readily available or easily accessible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

First, AWS provides compliance documentation for controls that are on the AWS side of the Shared Responsibility Model. Supplying AWS compliance documentation for Canada public sector customers The CCCS is Canada’s authoritative source of cyber security expert guidance, services, and support. As documented in CCCS ITSP.50.105

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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. Credit unions face unique security, regulatory, and compliance obligations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Tax agencies that operate their tax workloads on top of server-based operating systems such as Windows can decouple migration from modernization, allowing them to move fast, manage risk, and realize certain benefits of the cloud more quickly. Learn more about AWS Mainframe Modernization in AWS documentation.

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