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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Renzo Rodriguez, managing director of US Federal Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Les Call, director of the Department of Defense CIO Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, in a recent episode of Mission Innovation, powered by AWS , to explore the challenges and strategies of implementing zero trust within the DoD.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Learn more about the agile approach for developing government services. In a more traditional strategy, teams may create organizational constructs where everything must be tightly controlled by a centralized team, restricting innovative developments for one team’s needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition to matching generative AI development priorities to business needs, leaders and technologists must sufficiently understand the capabilities of generative AI in order to validate if it is the right tool for the job. Develop the foundational capabilities that enable this journey.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

This blog is the first in a series that discusses how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in education. The Department for Education of South Australia implemented an AI-powered platform to protect students online. For decades, AI and its potential have captivated human curiosity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

The power of De Morgans laws in SCP design The core challenge was implementing complex logical conditions within SCPs while meeting strict security requirements. To demonstrate this tagging governance solution in practice, a sample implementation package is available that can be deployed in any AWS environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation. Its also vital to develop a cloud-skilled workforce to support sustainable innovation and partner with leading cloud providers to accelerate adoption and attract investment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. A key highlight of AWS Learning Days is the diverse range of session formats. Browse the catalog of 2024 session presentations here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

University students will compete in a tournament-style challenge as either model developer teams or red teams to enhance the AI user experience, prevent misuse, and enable users to build more secure code. Model developer teams will create code-generating models to enhance security, identify threats, and prevent unintended behavior.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

AWS third-party audit attestation documents are used to determine inherited controls and what required controls may be remaining for customers to implement in their environment. The outcome of this step is the LZA configuration template that implements technical controls driven by the countrys regulatory and compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2022, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) initiated a pilot project to analyze traffic patterns and provide analytics within the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The PIDC is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the historic shipyard, which is now a thriving, mixed-use campus.

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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

JUNE 26, 2024

Credit issuance determinations will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the customer’s experience developing new technology solutions, the maturity of the project idea, evidence of future solution adoption, and the customer’s breadth of generative AI skills.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Now, as part of a new DoD research and development effort, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon’s Project Kuiper will help shape the future of global, ubiquitous, and secure internet connectivity throughout the space domain for the United States and its allies. AWS supports development of U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

In this post, we discuss how organizations can effectively identify opportunities to use Spot Instances and Amazon Q Business , a generative AI powered assistant that can answer questions and provide summaries based on data and information in your enterprise systems, to develop an enhanced Spot Instance analysis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. This walkthrough assumes the customer has already implemented the C1 component. AWS supports development of U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

The EdTech is continually developing its capabilities in the health and wellness space—and as one of LAUSD’s technology collaborators—it could build on existing work to create a health and safety platform that was the right fit and the right price. Both apps have been foundational to LAUSD’s campus security strategy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Building architectures that incorporate GraphQL can help developers evolve their APIs over time and solve shortcomings and inefficiencies associated with REST APIs. GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. For the purpose of this blog post, we focus on the second approach.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success. The city implemented AWS Partner Rubicon ’s RUBICONSmartCity solution to become more sustainable. For example, in India, AWS Partner Kalkitech developed Kalki.io

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

In response, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped Educause develop a Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment grounded in responsible use. Educause is a nonprofit membership association committed to advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

Once Civix outlined their priorities to AWS, the AWS teams hosted personalized development sessions tailored to designing the solution. The AWS teams established weekly touchpoints to elaborate on best practices for each of the phases of design, development, and validation. In just nine months, the Civix Ethics API was born.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2025

As European institutions race to meet ambitious digital transformation goals for 2024-2029, workforce skills development has become critical. Connect with our EU public sector learning team We understand that every EU institution has unique learning needs and specific questions about cloud skills development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

From this experience, AWS has developed best practices from the field of modern application development, well-architected principles, and critical infrastructure development to support the creation of a fit-for-purpose CBDC. Hypotheses development and experimentation can be completed in many ways.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA. Once you have formed the team delivering your cloud foundation, you can use the following guidance to help implement the solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The example use case in this blog post uses the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) dataset from the University of California San Diego to train and test the sample model, but organizations should make sure to use the appropriate vegetative and contextual training data for their needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

While AWS makes it accessible for Karsun developers to build with a choice of leading foundation models (FMs) and low-cost infrastructure, Karsun’s innovative methodology allows business analysts to uncover hidden knowledge within mainframe application language code such as COBOL.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

These experts shared their success stories and offered best practices to state and local agencies looking to develop their own workforce strategies to build a robust pipeline of cloud talent. Develop an inclusive workforce with strategic DEI initiatives. Learn more about workforce development for the public sector.

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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. This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms. Architectural diagram of the solution described in this blog post.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Implementations like these routinely take several years, and project failures are common. The key drivers of success for IDOC were agency executive leadership commitment, subject matter experts (SMEs), and Mi-Case’s agile project methodology which resulted in an on-time and on-budget implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Demo by Greg Smith) Strategies for reducing call volume and improving self-service Over a dozen states have implemented Amazon Connect to support their unemployment contact centers. Iowa Workforce Development relied on voice chat assistants to answer FAQs when claim volume exploded by more than 2,100 percent.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Understanding the multidisciplinary dream team’s needs Sunswift Racing is a team of innovators based in Sydney, Australia that set out to redefine the future of sustainable transportation by developing solar vehicle technologies. This improvement in build speed greatly enhanced the overall development speed for the team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These organizations are implementing cloud technology solutions to deliver enhanced services, scaled support, and innovative solutions to those they serve. This chatbot enables individuals to instantly learn more about ONE’s work, stay up-to-date with current advocacy campaigns, and find ways to take action locally and throughout Africa.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) develops innovative solutions to address challenging digital engineering requirements for US government customers. An IT engineer works alongside a cybersecurity analyst to develop the appropriate solution for this control.

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