AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 18, 2025

The Senior Executive Service provides a critical leadership link between politically appointed agency leaders who execute the presidents priorities and career civil servants who implement those priorities and carry out directives from Congress in line with their agencys mission.

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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

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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2025

The implementation of an operational data store (ODS) presents a viable solution. As states continue to transition towards more modular architectures and look for efficiencies, adopting an ODS is vital in maintaining cohesive and effective data management. Consider a legacy MMIS like the one shown in the following figure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? What is StateRAMP? Using a conformance pack can take the guess work out of mapping controls to AWS features and services.

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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? AWS signs these requests using the AWS Signature Version 4 algorithm.

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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

In this blog post, learn two options for how to manage network security with third-party firewall appliances. In the first method, learn about next generation firewall (NGFW) solutions available to deploy via AWS Firewall Manager as a managed solution. Third-party firewalls can help address these needs. Learn more about NGFWs.

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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

We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. In another instance, the North Carolina legislature tasked the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with launching a managed care model with encounter processing capability in just one year.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower. You can reuse templates and implementations across different projects and teams.

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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

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. Consumption based software utilization will leverage managed entitlements for AWS Marketplace.

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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. Are existing data management practices sufficient to fuel your AI/ML flywheel?

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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). AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) access to forensic GUI. The framework is deployed using a series of predefined AWS CloudFormation templates.

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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. They are the ones establishing the framework and managing the process.” You do need those designated people,” said Busser. “We

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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

MAY 17, 2024

By embracing a scalable approach through the use of Well-Architected templates and integrating these practices directly into the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), NHS England markedly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of their cloud solution management.

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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

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. It covers everything from global reception summaries to per-anomaly packet header details, from individual signal readings (e.g.,

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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

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Improving the customer experience (CX) of web applications provided by the US federal government is an executive priority, and part of the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). Reference architecture for implementing a modern application on AWS GovCloud (US). Access to an AWS account in US-East-1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Managed by NCPS, CLAW collects and analyzes agency cloud security data and allows CISA analysts to provide security situational awareness and support to the agencies. Log aggregation strategies You can send logs to CLAW from each individual AWS account or a central log aggregation point.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Managing donors, members, and constituents is essential to the success of most nonprofits. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are an important part of this process. For this reason, CiviCRM typically advises new users to work with an implementation partner to deploy it. To deploy this solution 1.

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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. To facilitate management of the firewall appliances, the inspection VPC can be connected to Transit Gateway—not shown in Figure 2.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Weve pictured a scenario for fleet management where a temperature sensor is sending data to the vehicles onboard computer, which is aggregating and condensing the data for relevancy, then transmitting to the cloud. AWS IoT Core is the backbone of the AWS IoT family, providing a secure and scalable service for managing connected devices.

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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. Open AWS Secrets Manager page in AWS console.

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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. Improve load management Voice- and text-based chat assistants maintain continuity of service even when the contact center is closed.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. The first way is using AWS AppSync , a fully-managed serverless GraphQL API service. The solution uses AWS Lambda to host a fully operational GraphQL layer and uses Apollo as the state management tool.

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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 30, 2023

The Fund needed a new process for managing their video content. This solution improves the process of managing large quantities of video in several ways: 1. These companies help reduce the time-to-implementation, letting nonprofit organizations focus on their main objective: advancing their missions.

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