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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. 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.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

The consolidation also improved staff productivity by reducing the cognitive load to manage multiple clouds. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tools such as Amazon GuardDuty , Amazon CloudWatch , AWS Security Hub , and AWS CloudTrail can be configured to monitor critical resources and set up alerts for any issues or deviations from normal operational parameters. Re-evaluate your on-call communication and rotation plan.

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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

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

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a typical year, the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado receives over 150,000 calls from children around the world. For the third year in a row, the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center will be supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Connect , an omnichannel cloud contact center service.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The South Korea-based space startup also works to reduce the cost and complexity of space operations by providing a single end-to-end solution for satellite operation and satellite data analytics. Nara Space Earthpaper uses AWS services for data collection, data processing, data management, image processing, and web hosting.

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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? Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO).

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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

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

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

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

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

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. What is a digital twin? ISS digital twin.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Two AWS customers shared how they’re rethinking traditional operations and innovating with the cloud to support their sustainability initiatives. The longer-term plan is to have emissions data at an application level to actively manage down the emissions footprint from IT service provision.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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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

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. 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

APRIL 15, 2025

In this blog post, we discuss five key ways AWS supports GovTechs in their mission to serve government agencies and citizens. For market-ready services, AWS Marketplace gives GovTechs access to government contract vehicles like OMNIA and NASPO, rapidly streamlining procurement with states operating under these license agreements.

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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

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. The data processing workflow leverages several AWS services to manage and process data based on specific conditions and events.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

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. Using LZA on AWS, 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Accessing, processing, and sharing data at the tactical edge has become increasingly essential to mission success – whether the mission is a large-scale military operation, crisis response effort, or coordinating the transportation of critical supplies and troops. Read related stories on the AWS Public Sector Blog: AWS selected for U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Using AWS software to perform real-time data analysis onboard an orbiting satellite, and delivering that analysis directly to decision makers via the cloud, is a definite shift in existing approaches to space data management. This was achieved by managing a reliable TCP/IP proxy between the satellite and the AWS Cloud.

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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 13, 2025

The mandate to innovate and modernize digital operations has never been more urgent. Cloud migration drives transformation Cloud migration has become a cornerstone for federal agencies seeking to modernize their digital operations and unlock mission success. For the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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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.

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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. In the United States, the City of Harrisonburg, Virginia wanted to improve their waste management program. The city of the future is “smart.” The World Bank says over 50% of the population lives in urban areas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

As demand and usage grew, ASTERRA faced limitations when needing to process and manage increasingly large volumes of data efficiently and to provide timely and dependable results to their customers. By relying on managed services, ASTERRA can reduce the operational overhead and focus on their innovation efforts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the number of research workloads in the cloud grows, researchers face challenges in managing strict budgets with unpredictable workloads and fluctuating needs. AWS provides many methods for effective cost management that can support organizations in their efforts to optimize the use of grant-based funds. Advance Pay. Tiered storage.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dramatic efficiency gains and faster student communications The implementation of Amazon Connect delivered significant improvements to the efficiency and responsiveness of Dallas Colleges call center operations. Connect enables us to better manage our telephone call volumes and save students time and energy.

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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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