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. This will help organisations think about the organisational change and operating model needed to be successful in the cloud.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We also define the roles and responsibilities between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the customer to provide clarity for successful deployment, improve operational availability, and enhance security posture. After you submit the form, we will contact the primary account owner within two business days.

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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

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. The LZA is built to support customers with regulated workloads and compliance requirements.

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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. The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution AWS built the LZA solution to significantly reduce the time it takes for customers to set-up a landing zone designed to align with compliance goals in highly regulated industries.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

Data center optimization ensures compliance with regulations, saves money and helps agencies to be environmentally conscious. In the face of regulatory mandates and pressure from citizens, agencies are rightly looking to make their operations more sustainable. They account for 1 to 1.3 Data centers are a resource drain.

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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

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. This lack of transparency makes it challenging to monitor workflows, identify bottlenecks, and maintain accountability.

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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. Their existing partner provided infrastructure services but lacked expertise in healthcare application management, which is crucial for digitization efforts in their regulated segment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. The post also shows how these previous automation measures can be applied across accounts with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.

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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. Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector government transformation specialists researched what technology leaders in government and in the highly regulated private sector believe their main IT challenges are.

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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

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. For this blog post, we provide an example of an LZA landing zone, which implements strong segregation of your development, test, and production accounts by default.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

How PDNS services work Organisations in the public sector, and other regulated industries, often have a need to ensure that important workloads or devices are not easily compromised. This could be due to limitations such as lack of access to a comprehensive array of threat intelligence sources provided by externally-operated services.

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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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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 1, 2025

The key is understanding the sectors needs, current operations, and existing solutions before introducing new technology. Strong and accountable leadership that asked the right questions from the outset. Be aware of data privacy and security concerns and ensure compliance with regulations. What do they likely have in common?

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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. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Patient data is sensitive and in many jurisdictions processing, access, and storage of patient data is regulated by government entities. In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Cyberattacks and cybersecurity regulations In recent years, healthcare organizations have experienced an increase in cyberattacks such as ransomware, unintended data access, and distributed denial of service (DDoS). They can result in the cancellation of operations or examinations.

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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. This file must be accessible for nested stacks to deploy canary resources. 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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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Firstly, applications considered to pose an unacceptable risk, such as those resembling China’s government-operated social scoring systems, are banned. AI applications not categorised as high-risk or banned are subject to lighter-touch regulation, allowing for innovation while ensuring compliance with fundamental rights and safety standards.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI Act primarily targets high-risk AI systems like algorithmic credit rating tools and medical software, imposing stringent requirements to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability. The impact of the AI Act will undoubtedly unfold over time, influencing how AI is developed, deployed, and regulated worldwide.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Similarly, the Irish Government has developed its own National AI Strategy , which was updated by the new government and in response to European Union (EU) AI regulations. At the EU level, the AI Act has provided a clear framework for local regulation transposition, offering safeguards for development without hindering innovation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare institutions have the opportunity to accelerate their move to the cloud, but first they need more clarity in how to manage healthcare data governance securely and in compliance with all regulations. Procurement agencies may struggle with how to assess and procure variable cost, usage-based operating expense cloud services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In one case, a messaging app with more than 40 million customers notified users that their accounts were potentially revealed to hackers who breached one of their gateway providers. Wickr RAM can be installed with confidence that communications will remain secure and private, regardless of the device used.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

This post will explain how healthcare authorities can leverage this wealth of data to enhance their decision-making processes within business operations by using AWS. Organizations should also conduct their own risk assessments and audits to ensure full compliance with regulations.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes. An effective strategy starts with clear use cases The eBook advises starting by precisely defining how generative AI might fit your operations and advance your mission.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

The common reasons customers may need to invoke Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in a standard account from an AWS GovCloud (US) account (or vice versa) include: cross-domain applications, feature parity, and if the AWS service doesn’t exist in AWS GovCloud (US). Why AWS GovCloud (US)?

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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. Use Migration Evaluator in protected or regulated environments by anonymizing sensitive network data. How Rockdale County improved operations and security with the cloud.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. The Report notes, by contrast, that the regulations that apply to banks are designed to do just that.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Many Amazon Web Service (AWS) customers in regulated environments such as the U.S. Amazon Machine Image (AMI) – This is an image preconfigured with the selected operating system that provides information required to launch an instance. First, let’s review some foundational Auto Scaling terminology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Importantly, the data mesh model supports robust data governance and compliance, as data domains can closely align their data management practices with GxP guidelines, ISO 27001 standards, and other industry-specific regulations.

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