State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The New York Office of IT Services is in the second phase of implementing NY.gov ID+, a single, verified login across state government to simplify how residents access services. Phase two of the one-ID plan involves consolidating existing duplicate accounts, an optional process for users with select applications initially.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CentralSquare is a government technology ( GovTech ) company and AWS Partner that provides mission-critical software to more than 8,000 local public service organizations across North America. Using AWS Landing Zones, CentralSquare can quickly set up unique, secure, multi-account environments for their customers, based on AWS best practices.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. One important aspect of this foundation is organizing the AWS environment following a multi-account strategy. The network account manages the gateway between the application and the broader internet.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

StateRAMP is organized as a 501c(6) nonprofit and is governed by a board of directors. StateRAMP Ready statuses do not expire, and cloud service providers (CSPs) do not have to have a contract with governments to receive a Ready or Authorized status. How is StateRAMP different than FedRAMP?

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

The Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) defines DPI as: A set of technology building blocks powered by interoperable open standards or specifications operated under a set of enabling rules with open, transparent, and participatory governance to drive innovation, inclusion, and competition at scale.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

Despite a common misconception about government, state agencies regularly innovate on behalf of their constituents. We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. The DHHS took an innovative approach to implement a solution rapidly.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) government transformation advisor, I’ve observed best practices that deliver success, and in this post, I summarize them.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. For example, the cost to the UK government of maintaining legacy IT is estimated to be around 50 percent (or £2.3

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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. Amazon AppStream 2.0

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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. Once you have formed the team delivering your cloud foundation, you can use the following guidance to help implement the solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

One of the onerous and time-consuming tasks for builders is to interpret and map these requirements before implementing them, which can affect their release cycle. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

After consulting with their AWS account team, IT, and business stakeholders, the COO approves the following expected business outcomes after the implementation of the new generative AI solution. Recent events in the financial markets have placed a higher expectation on AnyOrganization to achieve more with fewer resources.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 28, 2025

The potential for AI to deliver a new generation of citizen-centric public services and efficient governance is too great to ignore, but how can it be done while decarbonising and ensuring sustainability goals? Currently, data centres are thought to account for around 1% of global electricity consumption. International.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare institutions have the opportunity to accelerate their move to the cloud, but first they need more clarity in how to manage healthcare data governance securely and in compliance with all regulations. To make good governance decisions, health policymakers need to ask the question, “What are we trying to achieve?”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Implementing Cloud NGFW for AWS in AWS Firewall Manager A next generation firewall (NGFW) allows you to add a layer of network-centric capabilities to enhance the security of your cloud environment. Public sector customers face challenges to accomplish complex missions with limited resources. Virginia) and US West (N. California) Regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The rapid digitalization of government services has transformed the way government agencies interact and exchange data with each other and with their communities. Data interchange challenges for government agencies. Obtaining secure data from external entities poses many challenges for government agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

This post builds on the core concepts of LZA so a basic understanding of LZA is necessary to implement the solution. To learn about LZA, check out the AWS Solutions Library and Implementation Guide. Please follow the Implementation Guide to get started with LZA. This will be the configuration file used to deploy the CID.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

When used in coordination with services such as AWS Control Tower , the LZA provides a comprehensive no-code solution across more than 35 AWS services and features to manage and govern a multi-account environment. Leveraging a multi-account strategy sets the stage for improved security posture and growth.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Cloud computing is pivotal to allow the federal government to gain operational efficiencies and drive innovation securely and cost efficiently. Access to AWS GovCloud (US) is restricted to US entities and root account holders who have successfully passed a thorough screening process. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Now more than ever, our customers require organizational agility to move fast with governance that AWS Marketplace provides,” said Matt Yanchyshyn, general manager of AWS Marketplace. “We’re pleased to offer AWS Marketplace to the Department of the Navy to meet the needs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 1, 2025

Drawing on real-world experience and research involving over 4,000 AI use cases, Nortal provides insights into how governments can best utilise AI At Nortal, we have analysed 4,372 AI use cases, including 7 50 publicly available cases across 30 countries, to understand what works and what doesnt. Its because it wasnt built for the job.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Many governments around the globe are racing to infuse technology into just about every aspect of city operations. Today, as governments and city leaders look to shape cities of the future, they are actively looking to meet citizen needs for smarter and more innovative urban services. The city of the future is “smart.”

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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. Careful analysis of the factors that drive value realization can accelerate the time-to-value of technology initiatives and uncover gaps in knowledge or implementation.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As government organizations transition to Amazon Web Services (AWS), they often seek to maintain operational continuity by using their existing on-premises firewall solutions. This post will explore best practices for implementing GWLB to facilitate centralized traffic inspection for both east-west and north-south traffic flows.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. An AWS GovCloud (US) Create a GovCloud account if you do not already have one and log in. Note: An AWS GovCloud (US) account is recommended to follow along with the sample solution in this blog post.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

These templates are deployed across AWS workload accounts, the security account (capture memory, artifacts), and the forensic account (investigate and analyze). Analyze – Securely snapshot and share the volumes associated with the Amazon EC2 instance for investigation in the forensic account.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment. For this blog post, we provide an example of an LZA landing zone, which implements strong segregation of your development, test, and production accounts by default.

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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

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.

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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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