AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in various applications, but their true potential is unlocked when they can access real-time informationsuch as current data, time, weather, or breaking events. Example Amazon CloudWatch log events. This capability is crucial for effective public sector planning and decision-making.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Fortunately, Penn State seamlessly pivoted this new student resource to send COVID-19 safety communications to students. In addition, university organizations can use the app for campus events support. “We We host something like 14 events inside the app every year now, and it keeps growing,” says Seilhamer. “We

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 27, 2023

What are the top 3 trends that will trigger organizations to adopt a critical event management plan in 2023? million last year, proving the need for businesses to have effective defenses, including a tried-and-tested critical event management (CEM) plan, in place. Time is our worst enemy when a critical event unfolds.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. This event provides an opportunity for Accelerator participants to showcase their cloud-powered solutions to justice and public safety agency leaders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Under the serverless model, many organizations adopt event-driven architecture (EDA) to create highly scalable and fault-tolerant applications. An event-driven architecture is an architecture pattern designed to connect service components and help complex systems communicate. An event is a change in state or an update.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

Attendees watch and listen as Dave Levy, right, speaks during his fireside chat at the event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI.” On June 27, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Atlantic Council Geotech Center co-hosted an event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI,” during the annual AWS Summit Washington, DC.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2023

Using AWS edge compute for space station data transmission solutions The ISS JEM, Kibo, houses research facilities in which astronauts conduct various experiments focused on space medicine, biology, Earth observations, material production, biotechnology, and communications research.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The course was held November 14-15 at Mountain Empire Community College (MECC), in Appalachia, Virginia, and in collaboration with MECC and the LENOWISCO Planning District Commission. Delegate Terry Kilgore delivered the closing remarks for the event, alongside leaders from MECC, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts. Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep communications secure, private, and compliant.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Collaborate with right teams – Use chat channels to streamline communication during incidents. GuardDuty analyzes event details from VPC flow logs, DNS logs, and AWS CloudTrail without any additional infrastructure to provision. Create Amazon EventBridge Rule with Event Pattern and Target. EventBridge is a serverless event bus.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Mike and his four co-workers in the Programming and Communications Services department oversee all digital and print promotions. They also do a good chunk of the library’s event programming, managing all adult events that use outside presenters. The most successful of those events was a Card Crawl.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Share data and facilitate collaboration For first responders, poor communication can have dire consequences. Prior to modern technology, each of our stations worked and communicated in an isolated format,” noted Davis. “We Now, Davis and his colleagues feel confident that his team can respond effectively in the event of a disaster. “We

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

By giving everyone the ability to discover stories behind Singapore’s iconic landmarks, NLB hopes to inspire all to learn and appreciate the events that shape Singapore’s national identity and collective experience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Misinterpreted labeling can result in a variety of medication errors and lead to serious adverse health events, including death. The review process, which includes back-and-forth communication between reviewers and drug manufacturers, is manual and highly labor-intensive.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

Watch the full event below: NYU Furman Center State of the City 2022 from Furman Center on Vimeo. For example, the homeownership rate for white households who reside in lowest-density community districts is 68 percent. The homeownership rate is far lower for Hispanic of any race households at around 30 percent.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z are all mingling in the office these days, and that can present a challenge when it comes to communicating effectively. Generational Communication Preferences: Do you know the preferred communication methods of each generation? Favorite

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The resulting membership platform was built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using serverless technologies and event-driven architecture to help scale to meet demand, improve reliability, and reduce overall cost. Building an event-driven architecture for membership services on AWS Figure 1.

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Super Library Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This happened because we had a messy, unorganized internal communications strategy. If we were having problems getting information to staff about a fun event, we were really in trouble when it came to communicating the information they needed to do their work properly. Internal communications: marketing’s forgotten stepchild.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One of the key themes emphasized throughout the event was the role that effective communication plays in shaping trust and building relationships between federal institutions and the people they serve. Use the trust triangle of authenticity, logic, and empathy to guide effective communication. Here are three main takeaways: 1.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ensuring public safety at large-scale events, whether concerts, sports games, or community gatherings, comes with unique challenges. With the responsibility of protecting attendees, crowd control, and maintaining security, procurement teams play a critical role in making sure the staff has everything they need to execute the event.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Pieces is integrated into the pediatric health system’s Epic electronic medical record (EMR) and used by doctors, nurses and case managers daily for clinical handoffs, length of stay management, discharge barrier resolution, team communication, and multidisciplinary rounds. “We Pieces is running on Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Public safety agencies are deploying reliable and responsive applications for communication, resource allocation, and coordination—all essential in times of emergencies and disasters. Event-driven architecture has gained significant traction in the public sector. This approach minimizes idle resources and optimizes costs for customers.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 3, 2025

Nicole is now the Communications Coordinator for the Delaware County District Library, a five-branch system with a bookmobile and other outreach services. She had one Communication Specialist but was certain she needed more help. The first thing I did was sit down with my Communications Specialist and perform a job task audit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Today, the Egypt Tech Alliance convenes more than 30 higher education universities under MoHESR and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) through its workforce development affiliates: the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) and the Information Technology Institute (ITI).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But the measure of an effective communications platform is how accessible it is for everyone to participate. No Going Back When millions of people began working from home several years ago, seamless communications platforms such as Zoom for Government became invaluable. Governments for Zoom Video Communications.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. Chomsky 1988. Pantheon Books, New York 306 pp.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

The 11 startups selected to the Accelerator are: Brenna is a mobile app that streamlines communication between registered nurses (RNs) and family members of residents in aged care facilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It is better to have the power to effectively communicate and measure your progress within the whole organization than to have a detailed plan that only fits a part of the organization. Catalog your assets Keep inventory of your digital assets so that you know what to protect during an adverse event.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By keeping the global map open , visitors can watch a live feed of events, including live uploads from current users and new users, or teams signing up. This data spans a variety of geographic contexts, from a single cigarette butt outside a hospital, to degraded microplastics strewn across a beach, and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

With Kaltura Video Cloud for Education , Kaltura helps institutions modernize the way they communicate and collaborate internally. Our goal is to power organizations’ virtual experiences, from webinars to events, video portals, and virtual classrooms.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 3, 2023

In this opinion piece, Charles Stephenson, Divisional Director from YUDU Sentinel, explores the way ahead when it comes to enterprise communications While a messaging app such as WhatsApp can be helpful for everyday communications, such a social messaging app is unsuitable for crisis communications.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To manage and recover from a cyber event, organizations need updated, coherent strategies — not faded handbooks pulled off a shelf. A third priority has been readying the North Dakota public sector for future events “because it’s not if the next bad thing will happen, but it’s when,” he said.

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GovPilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Holiday events are coming just around the corner for the winter season, and local officials should seize this opportunity to get a head start on planning and organization. Many communities curate elaborate plans for community holiday events, but proper organization is crucial for a successful turnout.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This crucial work helps CDPH improve the efficiency of monitoring activities and the early detection of public health events through the collection of complete and timely lab result information on a statewide basis. This allows for 24/7/365 reporting and receipt of notifiable conditions. Where can we go from here?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For the UI layer, the platform has a UI component that communicates and integrates with the other systems (e.g., To communicate with the platform, an interface layer uses private API Gateways to allow internal platforms, such as a protected data lake, to move the curated datasets to the raw bucket.

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