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

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

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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

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. In this section, we explore how states can maintain visibility and oversight during rapid implementation.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Andrew Buss, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Innovation Management, and Innovation Manager Tara Woody offered their wisdom about how to implement innovations and keep momentum going. Outside vendors may be involved, and you’ll have to account for their processes. You do need those designated people,” said Busser. “We

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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

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. AWS Control Tower is built on top of AWS Organizations , which allows customers to group accounts and centralize billing.

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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

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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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

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

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

APRIL 15, 2024

Projects use AWS CodeBuild and other services within AWS Developer Tools to implement a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and automatically build and deploy changes when updates are merged into development, staging, or main branches.

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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 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

JUNE 27, 2024

Implementing the required controls for AWS Marketplace under the Navy BPA Navy commands can now use AWS Marketplace from their AWS account IDs, by following the procedures in the DoN ESL Ordering Guide for AWS.

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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

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

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

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 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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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

State CIOs have already implemented multiple use cases for artificial intelligence; others are exploring opportunities that can enhance citizen services, improve employee productivity and even save lives. Follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @StateTech and the official conference Twitter account, @NASCIO.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) operates within the United States, offering government customers and their partners the freedom to design and implement secure cloud solutions adhering to various compliance standards. This approach entails implementing an edge solution using AWS MDC. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

To deploy the described pipeline you will need: Access to an AWS account with sufficient permissions to use AWS Ground Station; The guide in the repository uses the JPSS-1 craft as an example, so you must have it onboarded into your AWS account. You can also get JPSS-1 onboarded to your account for the CPE public beta.

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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. Important account considerations for connected VPC First, decide the account you will use for the virtual private cloud (VPC) that is connected to the VMware SDDC during SDDC deployment.

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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 11, 2024

The second post will provide step-by-step technical guidance on how to implement this reference architecture on AWS. For the implementation of EHDS, healthcare organizations will need secure, robust, scalable, and compliant technology solutions to build the underlying data platforms and meet EHDS requirements.

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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

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

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

These tasks include processing daily banking transactions, managing accounts, and updating financial records. Digital banking By implementing digital banking solutions, credit unions benefit from the performance increases and scalability that the cloud offers.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Native American tribes and tribal agencies looking to benefit from artificial intelligence and advancements in healthcare IT must prioritize cybersecurity and IT modernization, according to CDW technology experts, citing a recent Indian Health Service implementation as an example.

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