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. Figure 1: LISA Model Management console with both Amazon ECS (e.g.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as AWS IoT Core , Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ), and Amazon SageMaker can be used to collect and manage the vast amounts of data generated by internet of things (IoT) devices in smart infrastructures, store them, and generate insights through machine learning.

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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

APRIL 3, 2025

At California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), procurement specialists manage over $190 million in annual spending across diverse commodity areas, many requiring detailed work scopes. Figure 1: Architectural diagram of the solution described in this blog. The scale of this challenge is substantial.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Organizations is a management service that helps you centrally govern your multi-account environment. Each organization is composed of a central management account and member accounts. The management account is established as the consolidated billing account for Organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This post discusses the management of AWS in higher education institutions, emphasizing governance to securely foster innovation without compromising security and detailing policies and responsibilities for managing AWS accounts across projects and research. These OUs help apply management controls like service control policies (SCPs).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Customers can confidently deploy CJIS workloads in either AWS (US) region, while maintaining access to simple and powerful cloud native tools to manage the full lifecycle of sensitive data. Agencies in Georgia are using AWS Managed Services Advanced to deploy and secure sensitive CJIS workloads in AWS US Commercial regions.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

We have a shared responsibility model with the customer; AWS manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the services operate, while educational customers using AWS are responsible for building secure applications.

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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. Austin, TX Revir Technologies, Inc.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Consider implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all remote access, email filtering services, prioritized patch management strategy, virtual private networks (VPNs) regular security awareness training specific to remote work risks, and endpoint detection and response (EDR)/managed endpoint detection and response (MDR) solutions on all devices (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? Patch Manager can apply patches for both operating systems and applications. What is StateRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ). Plus, AWS Config rules can now support proactive compliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we highlight four states where innovative HIEs are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help public health agencies overcome their data challenges. LHDs and CDPH have access to disease and laboratory reports in near real-time for disease control measures, public health investigation, and case management activities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Organizations, agencies, and enterprises leverage Nara Space—powered by AWS—to make decisions faster and support capabilities such as tracking carbon footprints; preparing for disasters; managing smart cities; predicting and monitoring crop yields; efficiently managing forest and marine resources; detecting illegal fishing boats; and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Opening their phone, they were able to provide copies of their ID, Social Security card, and even a fully signed copy of their intake forms with the HOPICS case manager who set them up with Kiip. Kiip, working with HOPICS and powered by AWS, enables unhoused individuals to securely keep, manage, and share copies of their vital documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Further, AWS MDC comes with a management system for customers to proactively monitor and simply operate the MDC’s subsystems. “As Read related stories on the AWS Public Sector Blog: AWS selected for U.S. Customers also have the option to use satellite communications for network connectivity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For example, a smart home water monitoring solution deployed in the city of Cape Town, South Africa , uses AWS IoT , analytics, and visualization services to help homeowners understand their water usage patterns, detect leaks, and contribute to more sustainable water management practices.

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

JULY 3, 2024

by Sarah Brown and Elizabeth Koebele All articles featured in this blog post are free to access until 31 October 2024 It’s that time of year again when course syllabi are updated with fresh research. We hope to make this… Continue reading →

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

To support their effective security and management, election campaigns and committees need access to the latest industry-leading security services and resources, regardless of their budget. Cybersecurity plays a pivotal role in democratic campaigns and elections.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

The longer-term plan is to have emissions data at an application level to actively manage down the emissions footprint from IT service provision. Tony Sudworth believes that we need “to move to active management to reduce overall emissions from IT activity in order to meet our Greening Government commitments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the end of 2022, Will Thompson, lead computational research consultant at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management , had a decision to make.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

They used Amazon Bedrock , a fully managed service that lets users build on top of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, and a variety of data provisioning tools. Alig credits AWS for helping speed the POC’s development, saying, “The AWS team was instrumental in training and testing the LLMs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For those who were unable to attend or watch virtually, this blog post summarizes some of the key partner highlights. Handling approximately 285,000 legal cases annually means that the Nebraska Judicial Branch manages hundreds of thousands of paper documents, audio and video files, and various forms of evidence every year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s a ‘bursty’ protocol, meaning sudden spikes, that has the potential to tax your infrastructure,” said David Schober, team lead and product manager for repository and digital curation at NUL. It is managed and deployed via the AWS Serverless Application Repository. Still, they’re not limiting themselves to cultural centers. “We

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Canton’s public safety, traffic management, parks and recreations, libraries, community centers, city hall, and housing authority have all benefited from a unique user experience. Today, the city is nearly there. Canton’s new network also has the ability to identify and track stolen vehicles, leading to rapid recovery and lessening pursuits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Introduction Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that provides various capabilities, including Jupyter Notebook instances. Snippet of code described in this blog. By using SageMaker notebooks, you can enjoy a fully managed Jupyter Notebook environment without needing self-hosted or managed infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, the pandemic created a rise in e-learning solutions, as teachers and students adopted digital platforms for communicating, teaching and learning, and managing academic information. Architectural diagram of the solution that forms the foundation of this blog post.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Director of Data Management, Analytics, and Visualization at Case Western Reserve, Katie Reynolds, PhD, familiarized people with the system to alleviate any concerns, educate internal business stakeholders and share examples of results.

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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. Credit unions face unique security, regulatory, and compliance obligations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

In this blog post, learn how these tax agencies and their tax solution providers can adopt a progressive approach to modernizing tax systems to enable more efficient and effective tax administration. Instead, such organizations can use managed tools like AWS Mainframe Modernization to migrate and modernize at the same time.

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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. Although authentication is often managed through external identity providers (IdPs) such as Amazon Cognito , authorization logic is usually implemented within the application code.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

The rising need for mental health resources put a strain on NU’s Student Wellness department—particularly on case managers who serve as frontline support for students seeking help. Students seeking help can also search for assistance that’s accessible 24/7 or request one-on-one case management support.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region , AWS IoT TwinMaker-powered solutions can comply with regulations such as International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ) and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ) High baseline. Dashboard visualization of ISS digital twin using Amazon Managed Grafana.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

It provides PIDC with insights into additional infrastructure projects that need to be deployed to manage any changes in traffic as well. It also helps PIDC understand the wear and tear of the roadways, as trucks can often create more wear and tear than passenger vehicles.

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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. Are existing data management practices sufficient to fuel your AI/ML flywheel?

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