AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) service, AWS Outposts , is a game-changer for public sector organizations, offering a unique blend of cloud capabilities and on-premises control. Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 3, 2023

To address global challenges and support communities in new ways around the world, public sector organizations are responding to a growing demand for innovative solutions. The AWS Partner team’s goal is to help our partners grow profitable businesses while accelerating digital transformation for UK&I public sector customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The annual event helps customers and partners reimagine what’s possible in digital innovation by learning what’s new with AWS, growing their knowledge, and getting inspired by the global cloud community. How can public sector attendees prepare for re:Invent and make the most of their experience? Download the event mobile app.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. This event provides an opportunity for Accelerator participants to showcase their cloud-powered solutions to justice and public safety agency leaders.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

Lire cet article en Français Introduction This post addresses eight common misconceptions about cloud computing held by Canadian public sector organizations. Insights equip public sector leaders to make informed decisions and leverage cloud computing’s potential.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is a phrase regularly referenced by public sector institutions, strategic influencers, social sector organizations, nonprofits, and global CEOs as a transformational approach to leapfrogging citizen progress at scale.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Amazon Web Services’ ( AWS) 12 th annual re:Invent conference offers a variety of events that educate attendees about cloud-related topics. Dave Levy , vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, is hosting the session, “ Empowering citizens through digital innovation ” on Monday, November 27, at 4:30 p.m. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In critical moments when every second counts, justice and public safety ( JPS ) agencies need technology solutions that are secure, reliable, and fast. But outdated legacy systems hold these agencies back: they’re clunky, slow to innovate, and vulnerable to cyber-attacks, weather events, and other disasters.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Supplying AWS compliance documentation for Canada public sector customers The CCCS is Canada’s authoritative source of cyber security expert guidance, services, and support. CCCS provides this expertise to Canadian governments, industry, and the general public.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

In recent years, public sector organizations have found success running their scientific data processing workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In the event of a Spot Instance interruption, only the specific parallel task needs to be reprocessed while other computations continue unaffected.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The hackathon is a satellite event of the biennial international scientific conference series, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics ( NTTS ). They opted to build a cloud solution, which would let them increase or decrease the size and number of servers as needed during the event, saving energy and costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. Access to an AWS account in US-East-1. Under Permissions , uncheck Block Public Access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. As well as serving API requests, the platform uses Amazon ECS tasks for performing background processes such as informing users that they have won tickets to a given event.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Real-time content delivery to audience is time-critical, no matter the scale, from corporate events to sports and live auctions. billion between 2022 and 2027, with the Asia Pacific (APAC) region accounting for 49% of that expansion. Using AWS, OCGL can significantly broaden its service portfolio targeting consumers and businesses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2023

More importantly, this critical health information can be lifesaving, particularly during traumatic health events. LSI set out to develop an IoMT solution with the capability to detect and prevent critical health events. These devices can help enhance healthcare efficiency, lower costs, and provide better health outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Noah Harlan, left, and Kiip colleagues at Homeless Connect Day event in Los Angeles. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The resulting membership platform was built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using serverless technologies and event-driven architecture to help scale to meet demand, improve reliability, and reduce overall cost. Building an event-driven architecture for membership services on AWS Figure 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Centre’s work has involved 300-plus AWS accounts across various groups, including external collaborators, UBC staff, students, and researchers. High-level technical solution AWS recommends using AWS Control Tower as a foundational landing zone for managing multi-account environments with prescriptive controls.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.” What is a landing zone?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

With an IT staff of four, the Library District completed a successful migration in six months with help from their AWS account team. Before contacting any cloud service providers, the Library District looked for other public libraries who had migrated their ILS to the cloud to ask questions about their experience and migration outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

In a previous Public Sector Blog post , we introduced Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point. NCPS recommends delivering logs from the central logging account when possible.

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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

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.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft Modern Work, Security, and Surface Evangelist to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security Event The Cloud Security and Compliance Series (CS2), Summit 7's bi-annual conference series, is excited to announce Rodel Alejo, Director, Partner GTM Strategy Modern Work, Security, Surface and SMB Leader, as a CS2 speaker.

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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. Our new target architecture will have our disaster recovery stored within the cloud at a fraction of the cost, and business continuity strategies in the event of failure.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This powerful tool combines large language models (LLMs) with your organization’s data to enhance productivity and innovation in the public sector. Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.

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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. Visualizing donor data with Amazon QuickSight.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 19, 2024

Microsoft is leading the charge, deploying innovative AI solutions tailored for public sector needs. Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government, DoD & Secret Offerings - Sept 2024 Update This article is the second of a series in the Microsoft Tech Community Public Sector Blog and touches on several key principles for compliance, including data residency versus data sovereignty.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The validation process starts with a file upload event triggered by Amazon S3. The event is picked up by an AWS Lambda, which routes it to the AWS Step Function where processing begins with malware check, as shown in Figure 3. If you want to learn more, reach out to your AWS Account Team or AWS Professional Services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, join your public sector peers to learn how you can use cloud technology to drive culture change, digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, and more. Register today for this no-cost event. From June 7-8 at the Walter E. Find more information here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Public sector organizations often use third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) for project management, human resources, event registration, web analytics, donor management, marketing, and more. Note that deploying these resources into your AWS account incurs charges. Select members-test-event from the event name dropdown.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. The framework is deployed using a series of predefined AWS CloudFormation templates.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments. We highlight the stories of public servants around the globe, while fostering a community of decision makers. Thank you for your patience. >60

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Public sector organizations often utilize third-party Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to manage various business functions, such as marketing and communications, payment processing, workflow automation, donor management, and more. Supplementing existing research with publicly available datasets to enrich findings prior to publication.

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