AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In addition to the risk to life and biodiversity, wildfires can destroy and disrupt property, essential infrastructure, communications, air quality, and more. Wildfires, then, contribute to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of ecosystems, and lost carbon storage in the destruction of forests.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

For public safety agencies, secure collaboration and situational awareness are essential to preparedness and response. First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts. Training and adaptation Wickr and ATAK offer avenues for training and adaptation.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 17, 2024

The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance enables a wide array of use cases for organizations with stringent security requirements, including: Disaster response : In the aftermath of a disaster, timely and accurate information is crucial for coordinating relief efforts and saving lives.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Atlas One Austin, TX Atlas One is revolutionizing public safety communications by crowdsourcing anonymous tips, evidence, and information in local neighborhoods and communities, and automating time-consuming back-office tasks. eHawk Lees Summit, MO eHawk is a criminal justice technology company driven by its innovative RePath platform.

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GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

EJI and similar resources can help agencies with disaster response and guide them during normal operations when they’re designing future projects, evaluating risks or speaking with a community. Communicate clearly with your agency partners and community about the findings that may benefit them and their work.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Don’t miss the fully upfitted AWS Disaster Response “rolling lab”—a purpose-built Jeep 4xe Wrangler parked at the L Street Bridge.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Varnado and his team realized that moving to the cloud could enhance storage, availability, and security – reducing paper logs, improving agency communication, and making sure dispatch operations can relocate to anywhere with an internet connection and be up and running in minutes.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Let's lay it on the line: these are disasters. In the case of coronavirus, the medical profession has taken control of the agenda, yet most of the failings--and there are many--refer to civil protection issues: communications, logistics, coordination. Let us replace major incident by 'major emergency' and 'disaster'.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

“Recently, we have seen an unprecedented level of rainfall and extreme weather events,” said Reyes Jiménez, director of comprehensive community risk management of Panama’s National Civil Protection System ( SINAPROC ). It wirelessly connects devices to the Internet and manages communication between end-node devices and network gateways.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In my experience, many matters that ended up in my courtroom, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, could have been avoided had the parties communicated with one another about potential, mutually beneficial solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT). RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2022

At re:MARS 2022, AWS announced that the combined Axiom Space and AWS team successfully communicated remotely with the Snowcone on the ISS, and the team performed edge processing on space-based datasets. Using automation to enable communication for those who cannot. Read more about this accomplishment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Customers use this space data for initiatives like global climate monitoring, wildlife protection, disaster response, food security, and broadband accessibility. AWS Ground Station is a managed, pay-as-you-go service that lets customers control satellite communications, process data, and scale their operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With AWS re:Post, you and your data users can communicate with a community of peers and AWS experts about a specific dataset, and can also contribute to topics relevant to AWS Open Data at large. PersonPath22 from AWS. BodyM from Amazon. AWS Open Data on re:Post. Questions on AWS re:Post can now be tagged with AWS Open Data.

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