AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Law enforcement knew the name of the suspect and this individual matched a description but did not have any identification. About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. Kiip, working with HOPICS and powered by AWS, enables unhoused individuals to securely keep, manage, and share copies of their vital documents.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 18, 2025

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Good performance management should be happening year-round. But for too many employees and managers, the annual review and goal-setting process—if it happens at all—is the only time they think about performance management. The agency also provides support for supervisors throughout the year.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

According to a 2024 survey by public sector HR management company, NEOGOV , which explored the effects of the ongoing hiring crisis on the public sector, 33% of agencies report impacts to service. The 700 public sector HR professionals and job seekers who were surveyed also note that law enforcement is one of the hardest areas to fill.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In the world of law enforcement and justice, every piece of evidence has a significant impact. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

For example, two renowned German medical facilities, Fachklinikum Mainschleife and Max Grundig Klinik , needed to modernize their IT infrastructure to comply with stringent regulatory requirements outlined in the country’s Law for Accelerating the Digitalization of Healthcare (DigiG).

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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. Human-centred values At Amazon, we prioritise equity, privacy, fairness, and respect for human rights and the rule of law.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

It expands on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, providing detailed guidance and recommendations that account for the special set of legal, legislative, accountability, and trust requirements that governments have – and helps them deliver meaningful outcomes on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This is a guest post by Franz Loewenherz, the mobility planning and solutions manager for the City of Bellevue, Washington. Working Backwards” clarifies the steps Bellevue staff and its partners should pursue to move Bellevue and other communities towards Vision Zero. Image by City of Bellevue).

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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. Serverless capabilities – Microservices can use serverless computing, where the underlying infrastructure is managed by the cloud provider.

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

If you have an existing Instagram account, your username is reserved for you, but if you don’t, get on it sooner rather than later. To do this, either download Threads from your app store OR go to your Instagram account and find Threads in the ‘three lines’ menu on your profile to get started. Screenshots from city Threads accounts 4.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Governments and the organizations providing technology solutions for the benefits of the citizens are continuously presented with evolving laws and compliance requirements. 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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GovLoop

AUGUST 11, 2022

Each of us knows to closely guard our Social Security numbers, credit card accounts, fingerprints, phone numbers, health records and other personal information. Both speakers overviewed three areas — information management, culture and automation — that are most critical to securing our private details. Management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Radiology centers face many challenges, like shortages in personnel and budget; interoperability issues between different IT systems and long-term storage of images; and strict laws and regulations regarding IT security and data protection. For over two decades, this medical data has been stored in on-premise data centers.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE Municipalities face a complex challenge in FOIA request management (Freedom of Information Act). Fulfilling these requests involves not only locating the requested data but also scrutinizing it for any redactions or exclusions mandated by law.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tax agencies can use AI and ML to support the sheer size and scale of data they manage and to access and analyze all types of data with ease, including voice, video, and streaming data. The next steps will require an investment of time to teach the computer the language of tax, including tax laws and IRS requirements.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 19, 2023

Fortunately, a bipartisan group in Congress last year took up the cause of modernizing the Plum Book in the cleverly named Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM Act). The law also requires identification of individuals who temporarily serve in vacant positions.

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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Local government officials frequently face a unique set of challenges when managing problem employees. These challenges are intensified by strict labor laws, complex union guidelines, and the basic need for transparency and accountability in the public sector.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

You can limit your vulnerability to attacks by encrypting data, eliminating network hops, and managing application access when diverting traffic away from the internet. To learn more about how AWS can assist with fulfilling your data protection and residency needs, consult Canada Data Privacy or speak with your AWS account manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Built for a range of government and education customers, from mission owners to cloud technical experts to IT managers, the AWS State and Local Learning Days can help you improve your cloud knowledge and learn new ways to achieve your mission outcomes. What will you find at AWS State and Local Learning Days? The AWS Cloud Journey.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 24, 2024

Among other findings, several alarming trends emerged in our work: Only 34% of respondents believe the federal government is accountable, while a significant 62% do not; and merely 21% agree that the federal government is transparent, with a strong majority, 70% disagreeing.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Widely used within the private sector, enterprise risk management, or ERM, is today used by federal agencies to address a broad range of risks across their organizations. Strategies for success with enterprise risk management. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach. Build strong relationships with your inspector general. “At

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it. Though heirs’ property is widespread, it disproportionately affects Black landowners in the South due to the legacy of slavery and racist land ownership laws.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence. The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management will create policies and procedures governing such AI assessments and clarifying how agencies must develop, procure and implement their AI systems. Beginning on Dec. Beginning on Dec.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For most organizations, managing users in a single tenant provides them with a unified view of resources and single set of policies and controls that enable a consistent user experience. Multi-tenant organizations (MTO) may span two or more M365 and Entra ID tenants – resulting in unique cross-tenant collaboration and management requirements.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. However, because the person responsible for managing the land bank also works in these other areas, they bring that breadth of expertise to the table and can more efficiently coordinate with municipal and county government departments.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

We agree that officers should be held accountable and that strong actions are needed to prevent racial profiling. But while our administration supports efforts to make law enforcement more transparent, more just, and more accountable, this bill would take officers away from policing our streets and engaging with the community.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Amazon Connect , its omnichannel cloud contact center service, has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorized status at the High Impact Level. In the AWS Management Console, search for the Amazon Lex service from the search bar. Figure 21.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Scott Bomboy of the Constitution Center mentions that “the concept of nullification–that states can overrule federal laws–predated the Civil War by decades, and the ultimate issue of nullification (secession) was settled in the 1860s. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute). If that law is federal, then the U.S. 482, 488 (1976).

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

Government agencies have masses of personally identifiable information (PII), such as Social Security numbers, health records and financial details, at their disposal, and they need effective ways to gather, manage, store and secure it. Government Regulation The federal government has some laws related to sector-specific data privacy.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Maggie Martel, Enrollment and Member Support, Healthcare and Insurance in the Office of Personnel Management offered some guidance for navigating open season. Family members are defined by law, so spouses and children up to the age of 26 are covered. What is a Flexible Spending Account? Who can be covered by my health plan?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 11, 2022

So if you want to start selling drugs, for example, it’s very easy to spin up an eBay style website on the dark web, and it’s difficult for law enforcement to locate where that website is located. Also, it’s difficult for law enforcement to locate where people are buying and selling drugs on that eBay style website.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dave Williams, Materials Manager at 3M UK PLC, introduces 3M bright screen privacy filters for laptops that enhance on-screen privacy and compliance in the public sector In today’s digital age, the public sector is increasingly reliant on technology to deliver services efficiently and securely.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. However, the pandemic must be managed at the local level.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For this walkthrough, you must have the following prerequisites: An AWS account. Deploy the SAM template to your account. Optionally, you can view the deployed resources by logging into the AWS Management Console , navigating to the CloudFormation service, selecting the relevant CloudFormation stack, and choosing the Resources tab.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 8, 2023

State auditors should have unfettered access to confidential records to ensure that state agencies are following their policies and procedures and state and federal law. Office of Management and Budget require that auditors adhere to Government Auditing Standards, including those standards pertaining to independence.

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