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Breaking barriers: How AWS is revolutionizing the accessibility of federal agency communications for the visually impaired

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Continuous monitoring and governance: AWS best practices for keeping your data secure during the holidays

AWS Public Sector Blog

Generative AI has been increasingly used to create highly personalized and convincing phishing emails, making it harder for even trained employees to distinguish between legitimate and malicious communications. Re-evaluate your on-call communication and rotation plan. Continuously improve.

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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Regulatory compliance – Stringent regulations in areas such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the data privacy and breach laws applicable to government and nonprofit sectors may constrain the permissible use cases for generative AI. Strict data governance protocols are typically required.

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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

Driven by the need for convenience, real-time conversations, and anywhere, anytime access, electronic messaging has become a go-to means of communication. In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies.

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Breaking barriers: How AWS is revolutionizing the accessibility of federal agency communications for people with visual disabilities

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Building an AI coding assistant on AWS: A guide for federal agencies

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Customers can switch seamlessly between self-hosted LLMs and externally hosted models.

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How to use AWS Wickr to enable healthcare workers to interact with generative AI

AWS Public Sector Blog

Healthcare practitioners rely on specialized knowledge such as publications in medical research, caregiving techniques, treatment plans, and policy documents. Patient data is sensitive and in many jurisdictions processing, access, and storage of patient data is regulated by government entities.