AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Driven by the need for convenience, real-time conversations, and anywhere, anytime access, electronic messaging has become a go-to means of communication. In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Almost half of respondents (43 percent) are interested in using generative AI to improve operational efficiency, followed by enhancing communications (29 percent), education and workforce development (28 percent), and enhancing citizen services (21 percent). The benefits can’t be ignored.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) serve a wide range of industries such as telecommunications, broadcasting, military, aviation and maritime, and emergency services. Additionally, the engineers making decisions on predictions may be a different group than the developers who created the forecast.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

This enables access to external APIs and integration with various data sources, facilitating cross-agency communication and data sharing via APIs. Powertools provides the capability to generate an OpenAPI schema, which developers can use during Bedrock Agent setup to define their API interface. Example Amazon CloudWatch log events.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Imagine cutting hours off your software development time by automating tedious tasks like creating unit tests or deciphering legacy code. Thats the power of generative AI , which is transforming the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) and reducing the toil for developers on a range of software development tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Following natural disasters, reports such as these can help determine which forms of communications are still working and which roads are still accessible. The launch of Ask ReliefWeb is really the first step in an iterative innovation process that weve been developing with AWS, said Alspach.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe. government (USG) space assets in all orbits to provide secure, assured, and low-latency data communications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Having worked on DPI initiatives during my tenure at Sri Lankas Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Ive witnessed first-hand the potential of DPI to address critical national challenges. An agile approach to the softwares development involved rapid prototyping, followed by iterative improvements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The database is also developing a community by encouraging people to come together to respond to the pollution problem; OpenLitterMap supports weekly meetups with live open source coding sessions. Litter and plastic pollution are global problems with significant immediate implications for humanity and the environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Research shows that family and community involvement in schools is closely related to positive outcomes for students. Plus, when educators connect and communicate with each other, they can help improve the culture of education, use their data more effectively, and deliver better results for students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) networks typically offer a rich set of performance metrics, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth delivered by remote terminals on land, sea, or air. Network layout for a typical satellite communications service with analytics applied.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Department of Defense (DoD) relies on modern military applications that are data-heavy and depend on low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field. Customers also have the option to use satellite communications for network connectivity. Learn more about AWS for US Government and AWS for Defense.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These one-on-one consulting engagements have covered topics such as developing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and maximizing profitability with AWS in public sector. These solutions included summarization, information extraction, sentiment analysis, topic classification, and data visualization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

As part of this initiative, JAMSS developed the JAMSS Automated File Dump System (JAFDS) solution that leverages the edge computing capabilities of the Snowcone to autonomously downlink, validate, and retransmit large files from the ISS to the ground.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As one-time donations increasingly become the norm, nonprofit development teams are challenged to think outside-the-box to attract, retain, and communicate with their valuable supporters. This solution takes the guesswork out of development and increases the impact of communications with donors. year-over-year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The initiative brings together a coalition of Fortune 500 companies and other employers, government agencies, workforce development organizations, and education leaders to better prepare learners for entry-level tech careers. More than 20 AWS Partners and customers have committed to the Egypt alliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We previously reviewed AWS serverless and container services to build modern applications in the previous blog post, “ Modernizing public sector applications using serverless and containers.” Containers also facilitate rapid development and deployment of services, allowing organizations to roll out new applications and updates quickly.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, explore the technical considerations related to integrating your LZA landing zone with your VMware Cloud on the AWS 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

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. Architectural diagram of the solution described in this blog post. The developer pushes the code, it is built, deployed, and then functional testing happens.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 3, 2025

Nicole is now the Communications Coordinator for the Delaware County District Library, a five-branch system with a bookmobile and other outreach services. She had one Communication Specialist but was certain she needed more help. The first thing I did was sit down with my Communications Specialist and perform a job task audit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

At the core of the Tech Alliance lies a collaborative effort to validate and then communicate the technical and professional skills learners need to develop for entry-level jobs in cloud engineering, data analytics, and software development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Open Source Creation of the Year Award celebrates government organizations that embody open government through the development of open source solutions. His immediate priority was to create the “State in the smartphone” – so people could communicate directly with the state via their smartphones.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. As manufacturers continue to struggle with workforce shortages—according to Deloitte research , a skills gap could leave 2.4

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

TensorIoT elevated Citibot for increased government efficiency and citizen engagement Citibot is an AI chatbot that helps citizens communicate with their governments using text messaging and web chat. Still, Citibot’s developers saw room for improvement. It integrates with ease into popular chat services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration service with features designed to keep internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. In this post, we present an architecture that uses the Wickr messaging solution for protected communication with a generative AI backend system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These startups are developing groundbreaking solutions to help cities address infrastructure-related sustainability challenges. Louis, Missouri, USA, is developing affordable wind turbines for commercial buildings designed to be installed at the edge of roofs to take advantage of wind that naturally speeds up as it travels over roof edges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. The following tips can help your agency develop a governance strategy. Cloud services are entirely software-defined.

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Super Library Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The library I worked for when I started this blog had an annual tradition. This happened because we had a messy, unorganized internal communications strategy. Internal communications: marketing’s forgotten stepchild. On this blog, we focus mainly on marketing and promotions aimed to reach your library community.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When AMA wanted to launch its community membership — their first true subscription-based membership — AMA decided to rethink its existing membership system. With their in-house software development expertise, they decided to build it themselves. Applications communicate with back-end microservices via Amazon API Gateway.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With the development of 5G and an ever-growing number of cloud-connected devices, data is becoming available at an unprecedented rate. Public safety agencies must understand and address the specific needs of their constituents among a diverse group of communities. Read on for key takeaways from the webinar and watch on-demand here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) is a federal government agency responsible for extending civilian foreign aid and development assistance, such as for countries that need disaster response and recovery resources, are trying to escape poverty, and are engaging in democratic reforms.

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Citizen Lab

JULY 6, 2022

Decide who you need to reach Consider the different segments of your audience and identify the best ways… The post Develop a communications plan for your community engagement projects appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

They range from architectural guidance to ready-to-deploy solutions, and also include offerings developed by AWS Partners. One solution, Genomics Secondary Analysis using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch creates a scalable environment to develop, build, deploy, and run pipelines for processing genome sequences.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The Canadian government’s Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) program Beyond the Cloud trains people and upskills employees for essential roles such as cloud architects, engineers, and administrators. They develop online portals, mobile apps, and digital platforms to access government services and information.

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