AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Demo by Greg Smith) Strategies for reducing call volume and improving self-service Over a dozen states have implemented Amazon Connect to support their unemployment contact centers. The Connecticut Department of Labor achieved a 60 percent reduction in repeat calls after implementing IVR scheduled callbacks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Though women account for 60% of the government workforce, they aren’t well-represented within government IT. Read more about workforce development in the public sector: 5 tips for skilling the workforce of tomorrow from state and local government experts. Rethin k skill potential in hiring.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This post will explore best practices for implementing GWLB to facilitate centralized traffic inspection for both east-west and north-south traffic flows. For customers preferring to use their firewalls for NAT capabilities, a two-arm architecture can be implemented. In this approach, traffic exits directly from the inspection VPC.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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. However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

US state and local government and education customers can get in-person no-cost training, hands-on help, and more at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) State and Local Learning Days. AWS will offer one-on-one support and more at two AWS State and Local Learning Days events. The AWS Cloud Journey.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, purchasing insurance in the individual market proved challenging for those without employer-sponsored health benefits. There are more than nine million active accounts. This was particularly true in California, where more than 39 million people live.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

While the new CMS policy is a positive step toward breaking the recidivism cycle, implementation is not straightforward—especially given compliance issues and the siloed nature of both government agencies and recordkeeping.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While Amazon Rekognition Image recognition service models are helpful for quick, wide use case classification implementations, generating object-specific models for bespoke use cases may increase the confidence in specific object detection. Example training data with Amazon Rekognition Custom object label as wildfire “smoke.”

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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. Prioritize stakeholder engagement, including community input.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Relying on manual methods to record and create content in different languages can hinder the timeliness of implementation. This step will create the lambda layer that you can add to your Lambda Function in your AWS account. However, there’s a simple alternative. Section 3 walks through testing the deployed solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

The new emergency amendment requires that impacted TSA-regulated entities develop an approved implementation plan that describes measures they are taking to improve their cybersecurity resilience and prevent disruption and degradation to their infrastructure. It automates security tools that have built-in governance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact study indicates organizations can improve productivity and reduce costs by 50 percent by implementing AI into their document pipelines. Develop AI implementation guidelines that include transparency of algorithms used. How nonprofits can automate tax-exempt status across AWS accounts.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Rebuilding Trust Through Community Engagement Rebuilding trust between governments and their communities will be a central theme in 2025. Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

AWS Marketplace simplifies contracting with multiple sellers, helps optimize software licensing costs, and maintains visibility across all accounts, thereby making it simpler and more cost-effective to track and manage software spending. Learn more about AWS for cybersecurity in education and state and local government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Organizations can turn to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement intelligent document processing (IDP) workflows. This function is used to protect the AWS account holder from unintentional spend and to provide reliable and highly available services to all customers.

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Government Technology Insider

APRIL 10, 2024

It was fitting that this conference was held in Los Angeles,” shared Tom Wiri, West State and Local Account Executive, Tricentis. For most local governments this is a hard ask because they have small budgets, limited resources, and lean IT teams.”

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“I really have to dive into how I implement new technology on a limited budget,” he said. ” The Journey So Far In 2023, part of Barker’s mission was to “demystify” AI for Burlington government colleagues. This article appeared in our guide, “ Going Places: Priorities for State and Local Tech.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Benefits overview CSDs in the cloud are a strategic move for state and local government healthcare systems looking to enhance patient care, improve efficiency, and stay adaptable in an ever-evolving healthcare landscape while ensuring the security and privacy of patient information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The migration was frictionless and speedy, with excellent guidance from the AWS account team—working directly alongside our AZDHS leadership,” said Paula Mattingly, chief information officer (CIO) for AZDHS. “As Optionally, you can enable Amazon GuardDuty (GuardDuty) in an AWS account where WIC applications are deployed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2022

The framework agreement enables GC customers to leverage AWS by requesting an account from Shared Services Canada’s (GC’s central IT organization) Cloud Brokerage. Once they receive the account, they’re responsible for implementing security controls as required by GC policy.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But with more of us joining cycle lanes, local authorities have had to invest in ways to make our cities and towns more cycle friendly and implement traffic monitoring solutions to aid this growth. With this, they can effectively plan, implement and monitor current and future schemes. Harnessing data to assess impact.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2022

public sector entities—including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions—accelerate their digital transformations. In June, we announced the creation of Google Public Sector , a new Google division focusing on helping U.S.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

With funding to date of more than $700 million through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, EDA has awarded implementation grants to 18 Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) around the country. Grant funds can be used for planning, technical assistance, training, sector partnership formation, program design, and implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To learn more about how to use AWS services and partners to improve speed and accuracy in transcription, contact your AWS account representative.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

A fiscal cliff, a term that underscores the urgency and potential abruptness of the financial crisis, occurs when local governments experience a sudden and severe economic downturn due to declining revenues and increasing expenditures. Recent economic shifts have intensified these issues. What is a fiscal cliff?

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 4, 2023

While all levels of government – federal, state, and local – are affected, local government agencies are often the hardest hit due to a lack of staffing and resources for robust cyber defenses. Like any new security approach, implementing whole-of-state security requires a cultural shift.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A major challenge: Managing workload identity Securing multi-cloud applications for state and local government entities presents a major challenge: managing workload identity. By implementing zero-trust principles, agencies can enforce continuous verification and prevent unauthorized access. But don’t stop there.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The implementation also provides more than 99.999 percent availability for voice calls, end-to-end security, and data storage in a secure cloud, enabling simple relocation of the team if needed. A cost-effective and secure step forward Beyond just technological advancement, the county has experienced significant cost advantages.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

Government Accountability Office notes that its auditors have made 712 recommendations to federal agencies since 2010, 21% of which have not been implemented. Until these are fully implemented, federal agencies will be more limited in their ability to protect private and sensitive data entrusted to them,” the report states.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prerequisites For this solution, make sure you have completed the following prerequisites: Access to an AWS account with appropriate permissions to access below services using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Deep learning image analysis and high-performant yet cost-effective architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can modernize constituent experiences and improve digital interactions with government. For this walkthrough, you must have the following prerequisites: An AWS account. Deploy the SAM template to your account.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 27, 2022

In recent years, the government has advocated using Open-Source Software to improve flexibility, transparency, and accountability in web development. Is Open-Source Software emerging as a digital transformation enabler in Local Government? But this does not answer all the questions about using Open-Source Software.

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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. Learn more about the approaches to modernizing monolithic applications in the Implementing Microservices on AWS whitepaper.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

For example, in the Balearic Islands tourism accounts for more than 44.2% of the regional GDP and nearly a third of local jobs. While agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater globally, withdrawals compared to 20% for industry and 10% for municipal and domestic use.

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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each state is responsible for implementing specific measures to prepare local government officials for winter conditions in their environment. States expecting a snowy, cold winter need to account for winter community planning and consider ways to keep constituents safe, healthy, and warm.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The partner demo portal includes a library of pre-built demos, as well as a platform for partners to share their own Google Cloud demos with Google Public Sector account teams and customers.

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