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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2023

Since its founding in 1990, Tokyo-based JAMSS has been entrusted with the operation of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), known as “Kibo,” onboard ISS. TDRS is a network of geosynchronous (GEO) satellites that provide communication relay links for many missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the ISS.

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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. Combined capabilities ATAK is a geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness application that provides a real time common operating picture of people and assets within a map-based view.

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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? According to Gartner, the consequences to IT operations or supply chains run high at around $540,000 per hour. Time is our worst enemy when a critical event unfolds. million to $4.2

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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. Plus, learn the benefits of using serverless solutions including automatic scaling, low costs, and reduced operational overheads.

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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. An AWS Lambda function, triggered by S3 event notifications, processes document metadata using standard PDF processing libraries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Services such as real estate land title searches, emergency services, and more need to be operational in times of need. Taking the time to plan for incidents ahead of time saves crucial operational time for teams during an incident. Collaborate with right teams – Use chat channels to streamline communication during incidents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a suite of cloud-based solutions that can help address these challenges and streamline ELT operations. With event-driven architectures, AWS Batch processing jobs are triggered by arriving data, and in turn feed output to other services or subsequent jobs that optimize for downstream tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Given the external environment, government agencies in particular need reliable continuity plans in the event of an attack. In fact, two policy directives were recently issued to ensure that government entities can continue to operate. government agency is expected to have a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) in place.

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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. This gives AMA the responsiveness, operational efficiency, and system resilience to quickly evolve and expand member services.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How would police communicate and coordinate without computers? For example, when a citizen calls to report a crime to dispatch and provides verbal details, they are already two or three minutes behind the actual events. Police departments are increasingly leveraging AI to enhance public safety and operational efficiency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Enable your organization to scale the planning efforts and push the vision and top-down goals towards the operational leaders. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Every constituent has a different set of circumstances that dictates how and when they prefer to communicate. Although every agency is unique in its operational needs, in the next section, we map some of the capabilities of Amazon Connect to a four-pronged strategy for reducing call volume and improving self-service.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

At the request of standby organizations Help.NGO and Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), the AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response team assisted with response operations across a variety of functions in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Collaborative technology has cleared away physical and operational barriers that once seemed immovable. But the measure of an effective communications platform is how accessible it is for everyone to participate. Governments for Zoom Video Communications. Audio is crisp and clear, and video is in HD.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As government organizations transition to Amazon Web Services (AWS), they often seek to maintain operational continuity by using their existing on-premises firewall solutions. East-west traffic describes communication within the cloud environment, such as between different applications or services in various subnets or VPCs.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2025

Over just a few short years, AI and machine learning have redefined day-to-day operations across the federal governmentfrom vital public agencies, to federally-funded research NGOs, to specialized departments within the militarydelivering results and positively serving the public good. Its indisputable.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Step Functions orchestrates a series of automated tasks, managing the flow of operations. Business intelligence – You can use Amazon QuickSight to create intuitive reports and dashboards that effectively communicate insights from the forecast data. The event tracker performs two primary functions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

This no cost, two-day event brings the public sector cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. The event mobile app also includes other important event information, such as an Expo and building map, safety and security information, and answers to frequently asked questions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

As part of this effort, the team has customized AWS Disaster Response vehicles, enabled with technology including AWS Snowball Edge devices and satellite communications. Volunteers across the company have logged over 2,700 hours since 2021 supporting 14 disasters and humanitarian events.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Amazon Web Services’ ( AWS) 12 th annual re:Invent conference offers a variety of events that educate attendees about cloud-related topics. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The airborne-to-ground 4G/5G Communications pilots begin with equipping DoD aircraft with private 5G platforms for initial entry communications and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), explained Tim Kokinda, 5G Product Director, Cornet Technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These services communicate via a well-defined interface using lightweight APIs. Ideally, this operation should be performed in a standalone account that does not have any other buckets other than those meant for hosting static websites. Enhance operational agility and decision advantage with AWS Snowball Edge.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Motor vehicle departments can meet residents where they’re at by offering an omnichannel communication experience, with a single point of contact available across multiple access points such as voice, live chats, text messaging, and email. Conclusion.

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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. Tying event registration with sales reporting to drive targeted marketing.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

This event offers a chance to gain insights from early adopters and subject matter experts within the CMMC ecosystem , gaining valuable knowledge on safeguarding your business against cyber threats, and ensuring compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) requirements.   The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) plays a crucial role in both the U.S.

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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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Government Technology Insider

MAY 16, 2023

The airborne-to-ground 4G/5G Communications pilots begin with equipping DoD aircraft with private 5G platforms for initial entry communications and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), explained Tim Kokinda, 5G Product Director, Cornet Technology.

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Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some diversification is going to be required if your organization depends on grant funding because funders typically cap the amount of money that can go toward general operating expenses. its general operating expenses). The question is, can all nonprofits successfully pursue diversification?

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