AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Identifying suitable workloads for Spot Instances When evaluating workloads for Spot Instance adoption, its critical that organizations carefully assess their scientific computing tasks based on mission criticality, time sensitivity, and operational characteristics.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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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? The AWS Shared Responsibility Model including landing zone responsibilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). 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.

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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

JUNE 22, 2024

Cloud computing is pivotal to allow the federal government to gain operational efficiencies and drive innovation securely and cost efficiently. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions are operated exclusively by US citizens who work within US territory.

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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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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

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. At AWS, security is our top priority. Cloud NGFW for AWS is offered as a subscription-based model from the AWS Marketplace. California) Regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

However, when it comes to mission-critical applications, whose availability is vital for business operations, owners must allocate dedicated time to design and rigorously test the resilience of their applications. This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL.

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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. The innovations of today are the operations of tomorrow.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this blog post, learn an AWS reference architecture using serverless technologies that you can use as a basis for building GraphQL-enabled solutions in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to unify data access in real-time and simplify operations. GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS.

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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

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

MAY 17, 2024

It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. 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

MARCH 13, 2024

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Operational costs were reduced by $10.7 million from launch.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Respond with a custom response, allowing for responses to be logged, and security operations teams to be alerted to the existence of such a response being issued. In the following section, we show an example architecture to implement third-party PDNS services for AWS workloads to make sure that they can meet, for example, compliance needs.

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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

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 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. They operate 24/7 to offset traffic and assist individuals who may have been unable to call during business hours due to work or other obligations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. Factors that shape legacy IT Whether in the private or public sector, legacy modernization is challenging for organizations that have a long operating history reliant on in-house systems and applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Develop an implementation strategy – If your organization needs an implementation approach, consider a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Both institutions faced the discontinuation of existing outsourcing contracts and required a seamless transition to a new IT operating model. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts. Additionally, the global hardware shortage in 2022 exacerbated the challenges to meet the tight deadline.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Running tax systems on AWS supports these authorities in strengthening operations, improving constituent interactions, improving business intelligence capability, reducing costs, and innovating. Tax authorities that operate traditional tax systems as Windows workloads, typically in on-premises virtualized environments, can rehost (i.e.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Note: This solution was developed and implemented by Spatial Front, Inc. SFI has been providing application sustainment operations to FMCSA since April 2021. It’s achieved by using a modulo operator to determine every 10th nested stack to be created and adding the dependencies to an array for later use. py' -o -name '*.js')

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Shared Responsibility Model can help relieve a customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities where the service operates.

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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 15, 2023

There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes. This cost-free resource aims to support leaders as they grapple with implementation challenges. What are processes that could be streamlined versus areas ripe for innovation?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Some agencies use centralized enterprise data warehouses to bring operational data from various systems into a single platform for data analytics and reporting. Traditional data warehouses or data lakes can be difficult to scale or handle the growth of data, implement technology innovations, and meet the everchanging needs of organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The DPS has been implemented in some medical centers in the Asia Pacific region to enable research collaborations at the national level. Research data retention policy used to be difficult to implement at scale. The Korean Society of Pathologists subsequently adopted the DPS for their member’s education and training purposes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Finally, I will present a list of various pragmatic actions from which policymakers can select several they view as most well-suited for implementation. Inability to continue mortgage servicing operations. In such cases, there is likely to be an immediate halt in its operations, thus disrupting its servicing activities.

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