AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For our public sector pioneers, tailored sessions and activations will amplify your re:Invent experience, and this post will help you to start charting your personalized agenda today. Join this session to explore how cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions are revolutionizing the public sector.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights How Microsoft 365 helps public sector organizations embrace generational diversity Empowering your workforce with modern productivity, collaboration, and security tools can help your agency embrace generational diversity and across four critical areas: recruitment, retention, productivity, and learning.

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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? StateRAMP assumes that state and local government data will likely be at the Moderate impact level.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Courts and other public safety organizations are being targeted by a rising number of cyber events,” said Kim Majerus, vice president of global education and US state and local government at AWS. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In a March 2022 survey of 147 state and local government leaders by the Center for Digital Government , more than half of respondents said they plan to procure citizen-facing applications and storage and backup infrastructure in the next one to two years. However, some public sector organizations are challenged by procurement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. They explained to the officers that HOPICS set them up with an account that saved all of their identifying documents when they first entered the shelter. Do you have questions about how AWS can help your government agency provide innovative services for constituents?

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

No question, more local governments are facing cyber threats in 2024, says Tim LeMaster, vice president, worldwide systems engineering at Lookout. Either outcome allows the attacker to impersonate or spy on the victim, potentially exposing sensitive government data.” His firm is a data-centric cloud security company.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

With an IT staff of four, the Library District completed a successful migration in six months with help from their AWS account team. Before contacting any cloud service providers, the Library District looked for other public libraries who had migrated their ILS to the cloud to ask questions about their experience and migration outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 26, 2022

To learn more about Carbyne’s next generation 911 solution, watch the on-demand IMAGINE Gov webinar featuring Carbyne titled Evolve your data strategy today to achieve your critical missions more effectively tomorrow , contact your AWS account manager, or reach out to the AWS Public Sector team. How the City of Fort St.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Leaders in education and state and local government know that technology is changing at a rapid pace. That’s the central theme of this year’s AWS IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no cost to attend; register now to secure your spot.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Working Backwards process is gaining traction among outcome-focused public sector organizations tackling problems ranging from gun violence to cyclist and pedestrian road safety. Building solutions through public and private sector collaboration. Building a culture of innovation to better serve citizens.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.” What is a landing zone?

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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. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.invokedBy NOT EXISTS) && ($.eventType

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 4, 2023

Over the last year, system intrusions such as those delivering ransomware have become increasingly prevalent in the public sector. 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.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neurodivergent individuals could be part of the untapped talent pool that meets the demand for cyber, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other skills that government leaders agree are hard to find — and even harder to retain. Federal, state and local government agencies concur that recruiting talent has changed with the pandemic.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is a common architecture we see throughout State and Local Government customers (figure 1). For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There are more than nine million active accounts. Discover how government agencies across the country use AWS to better serve constituents at the AWS Cloud for State and Local Governments hub. The entire system handles more than 450 terabytes of information every year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 16, 2023

The Software Marketplace and Related Cloud Services cooperative contract is available to OMNIA Partners participating agencies, including state and local government agencies, public and private K12 school districts, and higher education organizations. Better together. You can’t pause a free trial period once it starts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Solution overview This walkthrough depicts an AWS Cloud-based solution that supports public sector organizations in providing near real-time translation chat support through Amazon Connect , Amazon Transcribe , and serverless code through AWS Lambda. Contact the AWS Public Sector Team to learn more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Assumptions and limitations The use case outlined in this blog post uses data sourced from Southern California with a collection of highly similar image contexts that includes angles, elevations, and sensor conditions in relation to the local topography.

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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. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector Team today.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

We are puzzled and frustrated with the ignorance of many people about the importance of state and local government management. In fact, we’re acutely aware of this phenomenon based on conversations with friends and family (among whom are doctors, teachers, lawyers, professors, and accountants).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, join your public sector peers to learn how you can use cloud technology to drive culture change, digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, and more. Then, on June 8, Jeff Kratz, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector partners and programs, hosts the Partner Forum.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Noomi Jägerhorn, director of domestic accounts at Posti Group, said at the AWS Summit Stockholm: “Sustainability needs to be an integral part of the company’s operations and should be reflected in the vision, strategy, goal formulation, and decision making. Voit myös ottaa meihin yhteyttä.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Learn more about how state and local government agencies use AWS to support their constituents and staff at the Cloud for State and Local Governments hub. Read related stories on the AWS Public Sector Blog: Taxes, governments, and great experiences using the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Supervisors and call center agents can get real-time alerts on escalations, call recordings along with transcripts and sentiment analysis, and a more unified view of customer profile information such as account type, billing or shipping address, and all associated cases with comments.

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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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Google Public Sector

JUNE 7, 2023

For years, Google has been working with state and local governments to focus on the needs of the mission, using data to improve the constituent experience and offer more accessible digital services, while helping government workers operate more efficiently.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transforming mobility is a central policy lever for European governments to drive their sustainable growth and economic recovery agenda: transport contributes to around 5% of the European Union (EU) gross domestic product (GDP) , employs more than 10 million people , but also accounts for around 25% of the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Organizations share those visuals with the rest of their accountability network to build a data culture within those local communities and drive towards shared goals. This data helps provide important information for communities and organizations doing the work to support their homeless populations.

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Decisions That Matter

APRIL 28, 2022

Gordon has worked to increase the contribution of public procurement and contract management to the strategic management of public enterprises at every level of government. This podcast is brought to you by Procurated , the first supplier evaluation and vendor management platform created exclusively for public sector purchasers.

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Decisions That Matter

APRIL 28, 2022

Gordon has worked to increase the contribution of public procurement and contract management to the strategic management of public enterprises at every level of government. This podcast is brought to you by Procurated , the first supplier evaluation and vendor management platform created exclusively for public sector purchasers.

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