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

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

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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). How is StateRAMP different than FedRAMP?

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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. Customers bring their own models (BYOM) for self-hosting and inference.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Work backward from your understanding of what AI enables you to do The AnyOrganization chief operations officer (COO) recently read an AWS blog post that addressed generative AI for the public sector. Security – This perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This self-contained solution uses two 20-foot shipping containers to create an ICD-705 compliant shielded enclosure, equipped as a data center with built-in power distribution, redundant cooling (N+1), security, monitoring, fire suppression, and other essential infrastructure components.

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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. Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Sonnet to our U.S. What is Amazon Bedrock? Amazon Titan Text Embedding v2.

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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 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

MARCH 22, 2023

With that in mind, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we strive to build and operate resilient services—in part, by learning from failures. However, we also apply learnings from failure events across workloads by using a program called the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) program. Follow along to learn how to install it.

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

The Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) defines DPI as: A set of technology building blocks powered by interoperable open standards or specifications operated under a set of enabling rules with open, transparent, and participatory governance to drive innovation, inclusion, and competition at scale.

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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

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

MAY 24, 2024

For public safety agencies, secure collaboration and situational awareness are essential to preparedness and response. First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts.

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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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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

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

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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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

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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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

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

AUGUST 31, 2023

Government of Canada (GC) organizations handle sensitive data, such as citizens’ personal information and confidential documents, and take on the responsibility of appropriately securing and protecting this data from unauthorized access or disclosure. DRDC had datasets consisting of geospatial imagery that were no longer being fully used.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 16, 2024

However, with online crime totalling $8tn globally, the system seems broken In the UK, fraud is the most experienced crime, accounting for 40% of all crimes. Given the vast number of cyber-enabled frauds in the UK, significant changes in the approach to cyber security are necessary to achieve this goal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Wickr RAM is DOD compliant and able to transmit controlled unclassified information (CUI), personal health information (PHI), and personally identifiable information (PII) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Air Force Special Operations Command. Exceeding operational security mandates.

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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. AWS provides many security tools to maintain data privacy and is accredited to operate at the IRAP PROTECTED classification level.

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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

Ensuring the availability and security of critical applications is paramount. Both institutions faced the discontinuation of existing outsourcing contracts and required a seamless transition to a new IT operating model. Max Grundig Klinik oversees approximately 40 mission-critical applications, encompassing EHRs, HIS, PACS, and DHRs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 26, 2024

These services, supported by core banking applications, form the backbone of credit union operations. AWS provides unparalleled scalability, reliability, and security, essential for the uninterrupted operation of core banking systems.

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

On April 12, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) for satellite operators using Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with AWS Ground Station. The agent enables secure, reliable, high rate and low jitter data delivery.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

With this announcement, IC customers now have access to 30 ISVs and 170 products in the AWS Secret Region , an air-gapped cloud accredited to support workloads up to the Secret US security classification level. The ICMP catalog has expanded based on feedback and requests from Department of Defense (DoD) and IC customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping leading tax authorities around the world to migrate and modernize their mission critical tax systems in the cloud, allowing them to achieve better service reliability, scalability, and security, while paving the way for new and innovative business functionality.

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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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