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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 10, 2024

Ultimately, this post serves as a valuable resource if you’re seeking to optimize your data management processes and derive actionable insights to drive business growth. Businesses face tough challenges in achieving data governance, like compliance, security, scalability and management overhead.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. AWS and customers work together using the AWS shared responsibility model which, among many benefits, provides customers a framework to inherit select AWS compliance controls, such as physical security. Security Reference Architecture for U.S. commercial regions.

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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.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Users can execute and parameterize queries and analytics through the interface and retrieve most recently available data from satellites, using secure proxy connections to publicly inaccessible databases. Some other projects powered by Aether include Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) and Chemical Security Mapping Tool (CSMT).

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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? In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). What is StateRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Furthermore, the sensitive nature of genomic data mandates a secure environment for processing and storage. However, for bioinformatics workflows involving multiple tools, the process of pulling each image can be time-consuming and challenging to manage.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

It enables government agencies, educational institutions, and healthcare providers to modernize their IT infrastructure while adhering to strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Modular Data Center (MDC) is a service that enables rapid deployment of AWS managed data centers for running location- or latency-sensitive applications in locations with limited infrastructure. Start by completing and submitting the contact form on the AWS MDC page in the AWS Management Console (Figure 2).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

However, with these benefits come challenges to meet regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding data privacy and security. We also explain how LZA for Healthcare codifies HIPAA controls and AWS Security Best Practices to accelerate the creation of an environment to run protective health information workloads in AWS.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2025

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. The ODS should catalog data, perform quality checks, manage master data, and use a business glossary to produce actionable insights.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Amazon Bedrock enables customers to leverage generative AI capabilities while maintaining the highest levels of security and data protection required for their Top Secret workloads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. High-level architecture of Automated Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

overlays to help agencies securely apply TIC 3.0 In this post, we show you how you can push or pull your security telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse (CLAW) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or third-party solutions. requirements to AWS deployments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. Historically, the SA&A process takes up to 18 months.

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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, 2025

During the panel, Tsui and Shen shared how their institutions use AWS to augment and enhance their research operations with more scalability, security, and collaboration alongside their on-premises infrastructure. Secure global collaboration: The cloud helps research teams share data and discoveries securely and compliantly with ease.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Social Security cards, birth certificates, and proof of disability are crucial for accessing services and applying for housing. About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control Microsoft Copilot for Security in Microsoft’s US Gov cloud offerings (Microsoft 365 GCC/GCC High and Azure Government) is currently unavailable and does not have an ETA for availability. Account Management It is obviously a great starting point to “a.

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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. One area of immediate concern is security. This is referred to as an AWS Landing Zone.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agencies can no longer rely on traditional network access methods, such as virtual private networks (VPN) and conventional wide-area network (WAN) technologies, to provide employees and users with a reliable and secure remote access experience. model for securing internet points of presence and external connections for the government.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Ygor Lutz, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Travizory Border Security, guides us through artificial intelligence-powered BorderTech, which balances the need for both speed and security As competition between travel destinations increases, simplifying immigration processes remains a priority.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Cloud security posture management offers a lifeline to agencies struggling to implement cyber best practices, such as continuous monitoring, when going multicloud. CSPM can…

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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. Access to AWS GovCloud (US) is restricted to US entities and root account holders who have successfully passed a thorough screening process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Note: Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. The customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software, as well as the configuration of any AWS security products.

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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

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

MAY 22, 2024

They requested proposals for managed services that could maintain their current system while transitioning to a more cost-effective, nimble solution. Both apps have been foundational to LAUSD’s campus security strategy. To support Kokomo’s migration, AWS worked to validate the architecture and help with security assessments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It is essential for election campaigns and committees to have access to the latest security services so they can mitigate risks against security threats at minimal cost. Access to security tools and resources that protect information, identities, applications, and devices is essential to the integrity of the election process.

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