AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Having worked on DPI initiatives during my tenure at Sri Lankas Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Ive witnessed first-hand the potential of DPI to address critical national challenges. In 2022, Sri Lanka faced its worst economic crisis since independence. The extended team built a working solution in three weeks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. With digital learning becoming increasingly popular, managing a vast amount of educational data can be challenging. This information is indexed later.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Messaging applications are becoming increasingly core to the way Australians communicate. Research by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found that nearly four out of five Australians use a messaging application for personal purposes.

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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

JUNE 26, 2024

To support their effective security and management, election campaigns and committees need access to the latest industry-leading security services and resources, regardless of their budget. Cybersecurity plays a pivotal role in democratic campaigns and elections. New this year, AWS Wickr provided an update to the service offering.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, LLMs alone may fall short in providing timely and relevant insights, especially for agencies managing dynamic and time-sensitive operations. Real-time data access is particularly vital for priority responses, where timely information can make the difference in critical situations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Communication with parents is a must for school districts. However, some challenges can hinder streamlined and immediate exchange of information, like when a school encounters an unforeseen event, especially during times of low-staffed administration like before and after school hours. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

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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. Holiday surge traffic – Forecast has a built-in feature of national holiday information for over 250 countries. This walkthrough focuses on a maritime shipping use-case.

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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. orientation training).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security. R3 Score Technologies, Inc. Baltimore, MD R3 Score Technologies, Inc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

million Americans with visual disabilities face barriers accessing critical government information. 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.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 4, 2025

specializes in disaster and risk with a primary focus on online informal communication, and public alerts and warnings disseminated via short messaging channels. specializes in disaster and risk with a primary focus on online informal communication, and public alerts and warnings disseminated via short messaging channels.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Agencies, community leaders, and health professionals look to lessons learned and best practices from the COVID-19 pandemic as a starting point. For example, agencies stood up new solutions, augmented their epidemiologic data with other data sources, or looked to their local Health information Exchange (HIE) for support.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whether on land, in air, or at sea, having connectivity and access to information in the field is critical for the US Department of Defense (DoD). Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information. In this post, we present an architecture that uses the Wickr messaging solution for protected communication with a generative AI backend system.

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Partnership for Public Service

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The start of a new presidential administration presents federal leadersboth incoming and outgoing political appointees as well as high-level career civil servantswith various challenges, including the need to share information, make rapid decisions and navigate leadership turnover.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Slab is a knowledge management tool and wiki. Business ($12.50

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

We are delivering capabilities that will reshape how national security organizations process information, make decisions, and support critical missions. Writing assistant Streamline the creation of intelligence reports, operational briefs, and strategic communications. What is Amazon Bedrock? Why use Amazon Bedrock?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These solutions included summarization, information extraction, sentiment analysis, topic classification, and data visualization. Ltd, said, “The Generative AI TTM helped us assess our generative AI capabilities, structure our marketing communications, and build a targeted go-to-market strategy to reach our customers.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

On April 21 2023 (UTC), JAMSS, in collaboration with AWS and Axiom Space, successfully demonstrated software that will help scientists transmit large amounts of data from space and help scientists on Earth analyze the information more quickly.

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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

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. LangChain is a framework that allows LLMs to integrate with external sources of information.

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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. And that was dangerous. Morale can drop.

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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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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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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 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

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. This means that the routing table configuration of your AWS Transit Gateway prevents these accounts from communicating with each other for security reasons.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, this poses significant problems with information sharing and data storage because microscopy slides are fragile, and the dye used to visualize the cell structure fades over time. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors. 3) Users access the WSI studies via a web portal.

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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 That information was in another system, but we had no clue because our systems were not connected.”

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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

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Empowering individuals with ownership of their own data Starting in July 2023, hundreds of staff at the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System ( HOPICS ) began using Kiip to store documents, complete forms and applications, and streamline communications with incoming customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Department of Defense (DoD) relies on modern military applications that are data-heavy and depend on low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field. Customers also have the option to use satellite communications for network connectivity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Using AWS software to perform real-time data analysis onboard an orbiting satellite, and delivering that analysis directly to decision makers via the cloud, is a definite shift in existing approaches to space data management. This was achieved by managing a reliable TCP/IP proxy between the satellite and the AWS Cloud.

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