AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

From protecting sensitive student data to safeguarding critical infrastructure, educational institutions require comprehensive security solutions to maintain their operations and trust with parents and students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Today’s satellite constellation operators find that, as their constellations grow, the complexity of their MOC increases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy. Different security controls can be implemented for different workloads and different SDLC environments. Organizations is provided at no additional cost to AWS customers.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“When you spread technology over 90 different agencies with 90 different business needs, it creates a bunch of information silos that keep you from operating efficiently. This blog post highlights how Idaho used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernize its ERP. We knew we couldn’t build the future on that model.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. Instead of capital expenditures on physical data centers, it has moved to an operational model that optimizes cloud spending. The government also revamped its procurement strategy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

DnA’s engineering team, led by director of engineering Sebastian Gunn-Hamner, is located in the US and India and is responsible for both the development and operation of the application, which supports 1,000-plus customers. Other initiatives include implementing event bus and decomposition of the monolith.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Federal agencies can implement this solution to meet legal accessibility requirements, serve citizens more effectively, reduce manual processing costs, and scale accessibility services. AWS services for accessibility implementation The solution we will discuss in this post uses AWS services to automate document processing and delivery.

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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 a mapping that defines how each applicable compliance requirement is met by AWS operated controls and customer-operated ones.

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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. We provide guidance on how to manage operational AI workloads, how to keep them operational, and how to ensure reliable value creation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Besides traffic management, digital twins can also be used in other areas of government operations, such as asset management and emergency response. Overall, the use of digital twins in public sector operations can streamline process efficiencies, reduce operational costs, and improve service delivery to citizens.

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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. Select Submit. The Custom lenses owned by me window.

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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.” Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In this blog post, learn two options for how to manage network security with third-party firewall appliances. Implementing Cloud NGFW for AWS in AWS Firewall Manager A next generation firewall (NGFW) allows you to add a layer of network-centric capabilities to enhance the security of your cloud environment. Virginia) and US West (N.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Innovations in FBI CJIS compliance allow agencies and their government technology partners to implement stringent, least-privilege access controls as required by the CJIS Security Policy. Customers maintain complete ownership and control over their sensitive CJIS data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Identifying suitable workloads for Spot Instances When evaluating workloads for Spot Instance adoption, its critical that organizations carefully assess their scientific computing tasks based on mission criticality, time sensitivity, and operational characteristics.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this blog post, learn an AWS reference architecture using serverless technologies that you can use as a basis for building GraphQL-enabled solutions in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to unify data access in real-time and simplify operations. For the purpose of this blog post, we focus on the second approach.

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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. Read related stories on the AWS Public Sector Blog: Amazon and AWS to reimagine space station operations and logistics for Orbital Reef.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

During this POC, the colleges administrators saw firsthand how Amazon Connect could be customized to include all of their desired featuresfrom delivering thousands of pre-recorded student announcements to implementing more efficient call navigation and speech detection capabilities. with scalable contact center solutions

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Public sector organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment, managing diverse workloads and maintaining a high level of security. Consequently, these organizations must implement systems with fine-grained access controls to make sure that only authorized individuals can view the data they are permitted to access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

At the heart of DC-MPDs operations lies a well-established data pipeline that efficiently handles a vast array of information sourced from over 400 datasets derived from the Mark43 records management system. Lock Management: DynamoDB is also used to implement a locking mechanism, ensuring only one transaction can process at a time per table.

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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. Federal and U.S. Solution overview.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Many governments around the globe are racing to infuse technology into just about every aspect of city operations. 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 of the future is “smart.” times to 6 billion.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Enhancing visibility for the Navy Yard and the greater community Since implementing Rekor’s technology in January 2022, the Navy Yard has gained illuminating insights into what’s happening on their roadways. In turn, these insights have directly benefited the Navy Yard in their planning and daily operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Citizens expect governments to continue to operate despite floods or heat waves endangering data centers, malicious actions taken against IT infrastructure, or power grid failures. This means they can focus on the operational aspects of maintaining key government services using the range of continuity options AWS provides.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Nonprofits around the world use cloud technology to improve operational efficiencies, optimize costs, and advance their missions. Promotional credit enables organizations of all sizes to scale their operations, reduce costs, and deliver more impact on their mission and the communities they serve.

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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. 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

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. According to GAO, reliance on older languages carries risks “such as a rise in procurement and operating costs, and a decrease in the availability of individuals with the proper skill sets.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Wi-Fiber custom builds hardware, software, and networks, outfitting them with optical and internet of things (IoT) sensors that allow municipal entities to capture and visualize data to improve operational efficiency, deliver real-time outcomes, and promote enhanced community safety.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Digital twin technology helps drive the digital transformation of the space sector by optimizing complex spacecraft design, engineering, and operation. Then, you can use the scene composer feature to place multiple models in a single scene to create visual representations of their operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

It is important to note that operating in a given AWS U.S. Independent third-party attestation audits provide assurance that control activities are operating as intended. The security tooling account is dedicated to operating security services, monitoring AWS accounts, and automating security alerting and response.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Running tax systems on AWS supports these authorities in strengthening operations, improving constituent interactions, improving business intelligence capability, reducing costs, and innovating. Tax authorities that operate traditional tax systems as Windows workloads, typically in on-premises virtualized environments, can rehost (i.e.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, learn a quick recap on what StateRAMP is and how it differs from the similar Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ). Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). What is StateRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Proving regulatory compliance and providing information to supervisors and management for decision-making requires extensive manual processes to review observations and readings on plant equipment and storage; especially when operating around 6,000 miles of gas mains and providing natural gas to approximately 500,000 customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

This presentation from re:Invent 2024 highlights how the Santa Clara County (SCC) Public Health Department worked with the AWS Professional Services team to implement a collaborative public health data platform.

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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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