AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These one-on-one consulting engagements have covered topics such as developing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and maximizing profitability with AWS in public sector. They leveraged AWS generative AI funding to reduce costs and demonstrate solutions for their customers.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neurodivergent individuals could be part of the untapped talent pool that meets the demand for cyber, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other skills that government leaders agree are hard to find — and even harder to retain. Federal, state and local government agencies concur that recruiting talent has changed with the pandemic.

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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 company’s innovative career readiness platform features the Whole Learner Framework, which focuses on engagement and personalized learning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government’s 10 legacy systems most in need of modernization cost about $337 million a year to operate and maintain. Either or both of these resources are available to customers engaging in a migration to help with planning, training, and execution.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JANUARY 16, 2024

uses to try and deter foreign states that are acting contrary to our interest or engaging in behavior such as human rights abuses. Economic sanctions are an important foreign policy tool that the U.S. But increasingly, foreign states facing U.S.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In prisons, restrictive housing—including solitary confinement—is meant to temporarily separate those who engage in violent or disruptive behavior from the general population. While this is meant to be a safety measure, there are concerns that.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Despite a common misconception about government, state agencies regularly innovate on behalf of their constituents. In addition to the IT team, health and human services subject matter experts, the Amazon Managed Services team, and the AWS account team helped the department with EPS design and deployment in the AWS Cloud.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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.invokedBy NOT EXISTS) && ($.eventType

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. They explained to the officers that HOPICS set them up with an account that saved all of their identifying documents when they first entered the shelter. Do you have questions about how AWS can help your government agency provide innovative services for constituents?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

The CMA is a no-cost assessment available through your AWS account team and is capable of providing a cloud service provider agnostic view of your enterprise. The AWS CMA consists of 77 questions that measure capabilities across six perspectives (business, people, governance, platform, operations, and security).

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The firm offers solutions for cities , other governments and corrections. Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. In 2024, governments face challenges when they buy technology, Cunningham tells Co-op Solutions.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

In my experience working with city governments, I’ve seen firsthand cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, and St. These factors mean that governments must do more with less. Today’s situation has become increasingly dire for many municipalities that once relied on robust federal funding and a strong market.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. Louis University.

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

Social media has significantly changed the communication landscape, bringing government leaders closer to the people they serve and building trust between them. Here are four things every state and local government leader needs to know about Threads to be a successful early mover: Register your username(s) right away.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. Indeed, many land conservancies are providing a wide range of services in urban communities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, the United Nations (UN) estimates that the built environment accounts for about 40% of global energy use and about 30% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Building these systems requires energy.

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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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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 18, 2025

It is not only government that responds to disasters and the needs of disaster survivors and victims. The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Prior to starting DAP, Ben had a background in youth civic engagement and issue advocacy. Haiti and Nepal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Leaders in education and state and local government know that technology is changing at a rapid pace. From July 23-24 in Austin, Texas , join more than 500 leaders across education and state and local government to learn how advancements in cloud technology are shaping the future of education and public services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who was with AWS at the time, operated as an executive sponsor for the engagement, providing a direct escalation path to prioritize the project’s success. Modernization journey The CSP launch culminated several years of application development to build a cloud-native platform for mortgage securitization.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

What skillsets and resources will government employees need to be effective in the coming year? PT to hear from government and industry leaders as we discuss the workforce trends you need to know as we head into 2025. PT to hear from a government management expert about inspiring an unmotivated team. 4 at 2 p.m. 9 at 4 p.m.

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 27, 2023

Local governments in North Carolina are required to engage citizens in their budget process by following the guidelines set forth by the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act. For example, some governments hold community meetings or town hall events specifically to discuss the budget and gather feedback from citizens.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

AWS ProServe Ready now available in Australia , Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore for public sector customer engagements. AWS ProServe Ready prepares AWS Partners to work seamlessly with AWS ProServe on subcontract engagements in the public sector. State or Local Government Partner of the Year: ai.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

For Medicaid agency call centers, there aren’t enough agents to support communication in all the languages requested by a state government. This step will create the lambda layer that you can add to your Lambda Function in your AWS account. Section 3 walks through testing the deployed solution.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For the first article in the series, please refer to History of Microsoft Cloud Service Offerings leading to the US Sovereign Cloud for Government. FedRAMP enables government agencies to accelerate the adoption of cloud services with confidence, knowing they meet high security standards and comply with federal regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These issues compound for sharing data outside the organization, as this requires organizations to address several rules and regulations that govern the access and sharing of data. These data producers can create meaningful data products that they can share across the organization using a decentralized governance framework.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Public sector organizations – such as government agencies and schools – are not exempt from these statistics. My eCISO includes recommendations from popular cyber frameworks such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. In response, the UK Government released a strategy in 2023 with the aim of reducing fraud by 10%. The true number of such incidents is much higher. International.

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Social Pinpoint

JUNE 5, 2023

In today’s digital world, online platforms and digital engagement tools have played a significant role in connecting communities closer together with their local and federal governments. Why is data protection and privacy important in community engagement? Key principles of data protection.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our reform agenda offers some recommendations to improve performance management in government, including streamlining the disciplinary process and more effectively using probationary periods, but agencies can also take action right now without policy intervention. But this is still a challenging issue for many agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Attacks on digital citizen services can cause citizens to lose trust in their governments. Some of the best practices to consider when designing a response plan includes: Streamline engagement – Identify the most appropriate team for an incident. In this post, I show how the automation of incident response in the cloud is a journey.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

With government-mandated climate action targets, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting requirements, and demands from end consumers on the environmental and social impact of goods and services, sustainability needs to be intrinsically linked with each organisation’s unique value proposition.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 23, 2023

This no-cost, in-person event has something to offer for everyone across a range of learning levels for leaders in government, nonprofit, healthcare, education, and aerospace and satellite. Plus, you can engage in experiential learning led by AWS experts and partners and ask questions along the way. Check out the full session catalog.

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Death and Taxes

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Blog post by Whitney Afonso, Zach Mohr, and Scott Powell Questions for Practitioners: When (as in time of year) should you engage citizens in budget simulations? Can I expect trust in our government to increase if we engage citizens in budget simulations? At any rate, a choice on how to start the simulation must be made.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 26, 2024

This set the scene for an explosion of offenders posing as government agents, health officials, and delivery companies, preying on people’s trust and their need for essential supplies. Victims received fake vaccinations and government handout offers to encourage them to hand over valuable financial information.

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