AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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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

MARCH 31, 2025

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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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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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Andrew Buss, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Innovation Management, and Innovation Manager Tara Woody offered their wisdom about how to implement innovations and keep momentum going. They are the ones establishing the framework and managing the process.” You do need those designated people,” said Busser. “We

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Sprague adds this example of how digital transformation can enhance a government’s performance: “Updated processes, supported by new and existing technologies, can help break down silos so that data and communication can flow more efficiently across teams.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe. government (USG) space assets in all orbits to provide secure, assured, and low-latency data communications.

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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. 509 certificates; AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups and roles; and Amazon Cognito identities. Enable AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

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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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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

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

MAY 17, 2024

The public sector’s use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is steadily growing, as these organizations learn how to implement and derive value from IoT solutions. AWS IoT lets customers onboard their IoT devices at scale and assists in managing them throughout their lifecycle. Let’s review them one by one.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center designed Cirro, a cloud-native analysis and information management system (AIMS), for the life sciences sector within academic and research institutions to accelerate research while fostering collaboration.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Fachklinikum Mainschleife manages around 30 critical applications, including electronic health records (EHRs), health information systems (HIS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and practice management systems. Max Grundig Klinik aimed to renew their entire IT landscape.

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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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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. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates data transfer between on-premises storage, edge devices, other cloud provider storage offerings and AWS managed storage offerings.

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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. Demo by Greg Smith) Strategies for reducing call volume and improving self-service Over a dozen states have implemented Amazon Connect to support their unemployment contact centers.

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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. 2) Setup AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment. For this blog post, we provide an example of an LZA landing zone, which implements strong segregation of your development, test, and production accounts by default.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

State Department’s Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Ambassador Stephen Lang; the British Embassy’s Deputy Head of Mission, James Roscoe, MVO; and the Italian Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission, Alessandro Gonzalez. Dobriansky, G7 partners discussed ways to align AI governance strategies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors. The cloud-based DPS immediately improved communication in multidisciplinary oncology teams.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The data deluge: Challenges of managing and analyzing information In the modern law enforcement landscape, the emergence of real-time crime centers has opened possibilities and presented significant challenges. On the other hand, managing and analyzing this vast array of data poses significant complexities.

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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. It covers everything from global reception summaries to per-anomaly packet header details, from individual signal readings (e.g.,

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. The first way is using AWS AppSync , a fully-managed serverless GraphQL API service. The solution uses AWS Lambda to host a fully operational GraphQL layer and uses Apollo as the state management tool.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services ( AWS) Ground Station is a cloud-based service that provides you with an opportunity to perform communication sessions with your satellite without spending a fortune on your own ground station infrastructure. The Amazon S3 bucket uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key for encryption.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2025

From smart traffic systems to access control in public buildings or environmental sensors in social housing, these interconnected systems enable real-time monitoring, remote management, and smart automation. Simplified management: No need for multiple VPN tunnels or complex encryption schemes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

These tasks include processing daily banking transactions, managing accounts, and updating financial records. Digital banking By implementing digital banking solutions, credit unions benefit from the performance increases and scalability that the cloud offers. These solutions also help credit unions implement single sign-on solutions.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2025

Gemini streamlines team communications by helping users summarize, draft, and find information in their emails, chats, and files. Enhanced collaboration: AI-powered tools facilitate seamless communication and collaboration within and across government agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, the pandemic created a rise in e-learning solutions, as teachers and students adopted digital platforms for communicating, teaching and learning, and managing academic information. Amazon Lex invokes an AWS Lambda function that uses LangChain retriever for Amazon Kendra index to implement a RAG workflow.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

Communication plays a critical role in modernization projects. With decades of experience helping government agencies modernize their systems—from streamlining back-office operations to building automation—the theme that connects all successful projects is an emphasis on open and honest communication.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Some embrace AIs potential, while others remain cautious, concerned about ethical implications and the complexity of implementation. It is encrypted in transit and at rest using via AWS Key Management Service. Today, as artificial intelligence ( AI ) reshapes industries worldwide, many institutions stand at a crossroads.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) operates within the United States, offering government customers and their partners the freedom to design and implement secure cloud solutions adhering to various compliance standards. This approach entails implementing an edge solution using AWS MDC. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In addition to the risk to life and biodiversity, wildfires can destroy and disrupt property, essential infrastructure, communications, air quality, and more. Images from the sample dataset in the Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels dashboard in the AWS Management Console.

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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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GovLoop

JANUARY 27, 2025

Agency modernization, innovation through AI, managing new grants, and more thats whats in store for Februarys online training line-up. PT to learn from industry experts and government leaders about best practices, challenges, and strategies for implementing robust data governance frameworks that support successful AI initiatives.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Arvid Straates, UKSBS Head of Data, ( www.uksbs.co.uk ), says We brought in ElysianIT for their expertise and knowledge of implementing business intelligence solutions. The public sector should harness the full power of its data assets by implementing robust data platforms that integrate seamlessly.

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