AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ). Customers can logically group accounts together in OU.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. We are delivering capabilities that will reshape how national security organizations process information, make decisions, and support critical missions. Amazon Bedrock is now generally available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

This post highlights how Amazon Web Services (AWS) secure communication service AWS Wickr integrates with the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) to enhance the efficiency of emergency response with a user-friendly, map-based solution that expands the common operating picture and strengthens cross-team collaboration.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

As customers move more data to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to take necessary precautions and measures to prevent sensitive information from unauthorized access or use. Prepare your AWS accounts – Prepare your AWS accounts by creating the necessary accounts and configuring the required settings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

The outcome of this step is a mapping that defines how each applicable compliance requirement is met by AWS operated controls and customer-operated ones. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. If youd like to find out more, please contact the AWS Public Sector team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

This document-heavy workflow, often reliant on manual processing, can result in delays, errors, and increased operational inefficiencies, causing frustration among both employees and stakeholders. Personalized, automated notifications keep all stakeholders informed in real-time.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Atlas One Austin, TX Atlas One is revolutionizing public safety communications by crowdsourcing anonymous tips, evidence, and information in local neighborhoods and communities, and automating time-consuming back-office tasks. eHawk Lees Summit, MO eHawk is a criminal justice technology company driven by its innovative RePath platform.

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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 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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 21, 2025

Companies analyse factors like revenue, cost structures, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and innovation. Learning from top-performing companies helps refine strategies, optimise operations, and improve customer experiences, collectively contributing to gaining a competitive edge.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

By utilizing the LZA and CID together, you can streamline the deployment process, ensure compliance with best practices, and gain valuable insights into your cloud environment, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency, enhanced security, and better-informed decision-making. An architectural diagram of the LZA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this walkthrough, learn how to extract, analyze, and interpret relevant information from paper-based Medicaid claims forms. Users can automate document processing and action on the extracted information. The response to the asynchronous operation is a job identifier (JobId). An AWS account 2. AWS Lake Formation b.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

Banks, PSHRA-SCP, EdD, MBA, Organization Design & Development Manager, US Office of Personnel Management and Owner-operator of Banks & Banks Consulting Company, spoke on how to ensure your 2025 goals are not only set, but met. Below are a few key takeaways from that session , as well as the full recording with even more tips.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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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

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

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Privacy by design ensures that good privacy practices are built into your information systems, business processes, products, and services.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition to the IT team, health and human services subject matter experts, the Amazon Managed Services team, and the AWS account team helped the department with EPS design and deployment in the AWS Cloud. As a compliment to AWS Organizations, a landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Airports are mini cities that at any one time serve and support thousands of people who need services to keep them informed, comfortable, and safe. Data integration tools will lead to smarter planning The first step is to join up MAG systems and integrate data silos on-the-day operations to optimize staff planning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Bamboo Health operates one of the nation’s most powerful care collaboration networks, providing Real-Time Care Intelligence to enable seamless care coordination, leading to higher quality and cost-effective whole person healthcare.​ For more information, read the whitepaper Blue/Green Deployments on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information. NETCCN delivers remote clinical expertise to the point of need during disasters and on the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) battlefield.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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. The version tag is used to inform CloudFormation whether a resource update is required.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission. Louis University.

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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. Quantela’s solution helped the City of Coral Gables reduce operating costs, drive local business revenue, and improve service provision for citizens. The city of the future is “smart.” times to 6 billion.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Schools can leverage Amazon Q to have conversations with parents and students, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using data from their own information repositories and systems. QnAIntent (preview) can be used to securely connect FMs to school data systems for RAG so chatbots can provide student-relevant information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Additionally, they are simple for first-time cloud users, as they offer greater flexibility in choices of Regions, tenancy, operating system, and usage. Both offer different flexibilities in the configurations of Amazon EC2 instances, including instance sizes and operating systems. Advance Pay.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Integrated chat assistants can also provide real-time claim information through the IVR without agent assistance. Although every agency is unique in its operational needs, in the next section, we map some of the capabilities of Amazon Connect to a four-pronged strategy for reducing call volume and improving self-service.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

They enable rapid document classification and information extraction, which means easier application filing for the applicant and more efficient application reviewing for the immigration officer. The LLM processes each document, extracting necessary information based on the prompt, and provides a summary of the processed documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The challenge of re-architecting decades old, yet stable, workloads gives chief information officers (CIOs) pause. Analysis completed by the AWS Public Sector Cloud Economics (PS CE) team finds that organizations can reduce the annual operating cost of mainframe environments by up to 90 percent post-migration. One example is the U.S.

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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. It’s important to note that GWLB operates as a bump-in-the-wire solution, meaning it transparently intercepts and forwards traffic without acting as a proxy.

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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. No action is needed from the user.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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