AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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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? Gartner reveals all Over the past year, organizations have been focused on managing the rise of home and hybrid workforces and adapting to the many changes resulting from the global pandemic. million to $4.2

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) serve a wide range of industries such as telecommunications, broadcasting, military, aviation and maritime, and emergency services. Demand spikes also need to be accounted for; holiday traffic, major sporting events, or peak shipping seasons all impact satellite capacity planning.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As an IT leader for digital citizen services, you need to automate incident management runbooks. 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.

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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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Building modern applications with containers Containers are lightweight, versatile, and portable units that are revolutionizing the way modern applications are built, deployed, and managed. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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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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Partnership for Public Service

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the fall of 2024, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte & Touche LLP hosted an event to discuss strategies for addressing these challenges, drawing on research from the Partnerships Center for Presidential Transition . Effective communication of risk information at the right time and in the right place is critical.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

At the core of the Tech Alliance lies a collaborative effort to validate and then communicate the technical and professional skills learners need to develop for entry-level jobs in cloud engineering, data analytics, and software development. This initiative expands student employability, adding skills that the technology market seeks.”

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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? Key Takeaways 1.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Instead of managing more than 400 individual connections with laboratories and other clinical entities, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with Manifest MedEx to integrate that data from 20 million-plus total messages, as of June 2023, into SaPHIRE.

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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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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The new AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance in West Virginia continues our global mission of working across government, education, and nonprofits to support organizations and their enduring need for highly qualified talent that is critical to future growth,” said Valerie Singer, general manager of AWS Worldwide Public Sector Global Education.

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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. A few minutes before the contact, the AWS Ground Station emits a prepass event. The prepass event triggers an AWS Lambda function.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Noah Harlan, left, and Kiip colleagues at Homeless Connect Day event in Los Angeles. Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. This interaction seems minor but for someone in a vulnerable community, it is potentially life-altering.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) access to forensic GUI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Every constituent has a different set of circumstances that dictates how and when they prefer to communicate. Event based outbound notifications can be personalized with real-time claim updates and timeframes to guide customers through the stages of a claim.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 27, 2025

Agency modernization, innovation through AI, managing new grants, and more thats whats in store for Februarys online training line-up. Well send you a recording after the event to watch, learn from, and share with your colleagues. Buttoning Up Your Data Management Data management in government can feel like a moving target.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

East-west traffic describes communication within the cloud environment, such as between different applications or services in various subnets or VPCs. East-west traffic can also include communication between the AWS Cloud and on-premises data centers connected via AWS Direct Connect or other private connectivity solutions.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Good performance management should be happening year-round. But for too many employees and managers, the annual review and goal-setting process—if it happens at all—is the only time they think about performance management. The agency also provides support for supervisors throughout the year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

However, customers who use cloud-based managed services leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), see opportunities for modernization of MOC subsystems. Using AWS ML services, the platform balances customer order priority, fleet, spacecraft, and system constraints to optimize collection planning and link management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Improving public sector business outcomes with accurate time series forecasts As the amount of data increases dramatically every year, organizations face significant challenges in managing inventory levels to avoid poor customer experiences, predict service demand, allocate resources effectively, and conduct financial and workforce planning.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When catastrophes like wildfires, floods or earthquakes ensue, these professionals aren’t just tasked with preventing the disaster from spreading; they’re also responsible for keeping community members safe from harm and maintaining order under high-stress situations. Why does trust matter?

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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. Pantheon Books, New York 306 pp.

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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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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As part of the “substantive and technical expertise” competency, Foreign Service employees must develop “the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information” and to identify “the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches based on data-driven analysis, as appropriate.”

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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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

The courses span critical professional skills such as project management, development, leadership, and more. With Kaltura Video Cloud for Education , Kaltura helps institutions modernize the way they communicate and collaborate internally. Recently, we were working on a significant deal with one of our top EdTech customers in EMEA.

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