AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Some embrace AIs potential, while others remain cautious, concerned about ethical implications and the complexity of implementation. AI automates document intake, extracts key information, verifies completeness, flags discrepancies, and routes applications appropriately. This uncertainty is nothing new.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Using LISA as a model orchestration layer, customers securely centralize and standardize communication across multiple model providers. This makes LISA compatible with over 100 models hosted by external providers, including Bedrock and SageMaker Jumpstart. Customers can switch seamlessly between self-hosted LLMs and externally hosted models.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Challenges in adopting zero trust Federal zero trust guidance supplements other cybersecurity practices and compliance requirements, creating a patchwork of standards and documents to consider. A zero trust implementation typically combines multiple security components working together to meet objectives.

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ICMA

JUNE 23, 2025

New, Reduced Membership Dues A new, reduced dues rate is available for CAOs/ACAOs, along with additional discounts for those in smaller communities, has been implemented. We’re searching for interesting and insightful stories that can help others learn a memorable takeaway to serve their communities better.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

For nonprofits, this means less time spent proving worth through excessive documentation and more focused on delivering impact. But it also means showing up with integrity, transparency, and consistent communication. Want to implement AI the right way? Document a clear use policy. Create a “trust agreement.”

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 10, 2025

Implementing key decarbonization levers, including electrification, energy efficiency, green hydrogen, and new feedstocks and processes, could achieve a reduction of 10 to 13 Mtpa CO 2 by 2030. In the PNIEC, the government reported that 67.9 The target for 2030 is 50.7 Mtpa reduction in ten years. 8 McKinsey analysis. Mtpa, COD 2022).

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 13, 2025

Gen AI has extended the reach of traditional AI in three breakthrough areas: information synthesis, content generation, and communication in human language. For one thing, horizontally deployed copilots such as Microsoft Copilot or Google AI Workspace are accessible, off-the-shelf solutions that are relatively easy to implement. (In

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Equal access to public communications is both a legal requirement and essential service. AWS enables federal agencies to provide accessible communications through automated document-to-speech conversion. Amazon Textract extracts text from documents, and Amazon Polly converts this text to natural-sounding speech.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The list includes some software tools you can use, but most of the tips are free to implement and only require your time. The longer you can step away from the document, the better, although if you have an immediate deadline, even a few hours away can help. The second tip is to conduct your review on a physical copy of the document.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With this mental model in mind, here are the three steps to implement it in practice, starting with an existing asset: your incident management runbook. 1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager. Figure 2: Your runbook as Automation Documents. 2) Setup AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Research shows that family and community involvement in schools is closely related to positive outcomes for students. Plus, when educators connect and communicate with each other, they can help improve the culture of education, use their data more effectively, and deliver better results for students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) networks typically offer a rich set of performance metrics, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth delivered by remote terminals on land, sea, or air. Network layout for a typical satellite communications service with analytics applied.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

To achieve enhanced resilience and operational excellence in cloud-based supervisory systems, supervisory authorities can implement the shared responsibility model with their cloud service provider (CSP). This delineates security and operational accountabilities between both parties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount. IDP automatically captures data from documents and data sources, then quickly analyzes and organizes this information for further processing. Accenture was called in to help speed up the process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, we cover public sector use cases that are driving the adoption of serverless and containers, such as generative AI, data analytics, document processing, and more. Blueprints also helps you implement the relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Document security and compliance requirements – For public sector customers, minimizing security and compliance risks are integral factors to consider in the strategy to manage cloud projects. Document the requirements and then consider available solutions to meet those requirements. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

If the application is using TLS encryption natively (such as API traffic on https/443), then use Elastic IP addresses (EIPs) to communicate. As noted in the VPC FAQ when using public IP addresses, all communication between instances and services hosted in AWS use AWS’s private network. 8 or 0.0.0.0/0) 24 and 10.0.1.0/24), 8 or 0.0.0.0/0)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With the Internet of Things (IoT), selecting the right communication protocol ensures efficient data exchange and seamless connectivity between devices and the cloud. For AWS IoT Core, the primary method of securing communication is through the use of X.509 for all communications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. The CloudFormation template provided for this proof-of-concept implements the performance tuning for metal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Bridging the knowledge gap with LLMs Imagine if every government employee had an assistant who had read every book, document, and memo in the world. That’s what an LLM can do—it’s a powerhouse of stored knowledge that mimics human understanding to generate responses and documents based on vast data it has been trained on.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

This cost-free resource aims to support leaders as they grapple with implementation challenges. Opportunities range from automated document processing to personalized services to accelerating analysis. Clear communication regarding AI’s fit within broader strategic visions also galvanizes support.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Google Workspace is postured to help government organizations for its business and collaboration continuity needs, ensuring agency teams continue to work effectively and securely in the event of an attack, including having critical productivity tools like email, storage, document sharing and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With a serverless application architecture, you can utilize the same components of a traditional three-tier architecture but use event-driven architecture with microservices, APIs to communicate between services, and purpose-built data stores that fit each service.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

A basic Connect implementation addressed New Mexico’s immediate COVID pain points, but the HSD team didn’t stop with the basics. After implementing their new contact center, they consolidated 150 phone numbers into two—one for customers, one for providers. What we have to communicate is life-saving information. It was awesome.”

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To assist in this, Microsoft and CISA will also be providing the Microsoft Expanded Cloud Log Implementation Playbook which will provide an in-depth look at each of the new log events and how they can be used to support hunting and incident response operations at your organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

His immediate priority was to create the “State in the smartphone” – so people could communicate directly with the state via their smartphones. After registering, citizens can receive communications and complete in-app payments. He is the youngest minister in the political history of Ukraine.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

From understanding member sentiment better to assisting individuals displaced during a humanitarian disaster to improved intelligent document processing (IDP), ML is helping mission-based organizations more fully meet their mission objectives. A system that extracts document contents may not require explainability.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Omnichannel communications empower tax agencies to respond to taxpayer demand for digital engagement and offer more effective customer service on a 24/7 basis. Intelligent document processing and quality control can also optimize government operations. Develop AI implementation guidelines that include transparency of algorithms used.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA. Installing and running the tool provides the capability of conducting security assessments of cloud environments via PowerShell and Open Policy Agent to check compliance with the implementation guides.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The new tool can communicate with students via text and email when the status of their aid application changes. The AWS tool yields immediate results in transparency, efficiency, and morale Implementing the AWS financial aid tool resulted in immediate benefits for Highline College. Learn more about the cloud for higher education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 8, 2024

By automating repetitive aspects of these essential tasks, healthcare professionals can focus more on communications with patient and personalized care that can create better patient outcomes, and optimize their workload. It uses speech recognition and generative AI to automatically generate preliminary clinical documentation.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofits hire program staff, implement programs, and serve those in need. And that is on top of implementing their programs and serving the people. Foundations usually request additional documentation (IRS letters, audits, financial statements, annual reports, etc.) Instead, they fund nonprofits that align with their mission.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The White House wants agencies to ensure they’re providing easy-to-use, trustworthy, accessible information to improve how they communicate with citizens, which is why it issued digital experience guidance in September.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Public sector organizations often utilize third-party Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to manage various business functions, such as marketing and communications, payment processing, workflow automation, donor management, and more. You can achieve this by implementing additional logic in your API call or data processing jobs.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

can communicate to the funder the outcome of their investment). To implement the “benefits before features” approach, you must show the funder the transformative benefits of your program before revealing the details of the solution you are offering. We see this come up frequently.

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