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Transforming Medicaid: Crafting a robust data strategy with AWS for operational efficiency

AWS Public Sector Blog

The implementation of an operational data store (ODS) presents a viable solution. This approach not only enhances data integrity and accessibility but also streamlines operations, reduces redundancy, and improves the overall efficiency of Medicaid systems. And the old ones almost never go away.

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How Public Safety Is Driving the Deployment of Mission-Critical Operations Centers

State Tech Magazine

And 93 percent said coordination among agencies is critical when responding to public safety crises and emergency situations. In a Verizon survey, 55 percent of first responders said the use of data for situational awareness has been one of the strongest areas of technological improvement in public safety over the past 20 years.

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Keys to Countering Cyberattacks Against State and Local Agencies

State Tech Magazine

That means everything from ensuring operational technology (OT) is readily upgradeable and interoperable to coordinating information sharing across the public and private sectors. Critical infrastructure has become a major target for cyberattackers.

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Breaking barriers: How AWS is revolutionizing the accessibility of federal agency communications for the visually impaired

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon S3 stores and manages source documents, while AWS Lambda functions process documents and coordinate service interactions across the workflow. Documents stored in Amazon S3 trigger a processing pipeline that uses AWS Step Functions to coordinate Amazon Textract for text extraction and Amazon Polly for text-to-speech conversion.

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Deploying AWS Modular Data Center: From ordering to delivery and installation

AWS Public Sector Blog

We also define the roles and responsibilities between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the customer to provide clarity for successful deployment, improve operational availability, and enhance security posture. If additional security measures, such as fencing or security cameras, are required, coordinate with your AWS representative.

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Building zero trust for the Department of Defense: Insights from Les Call, Director of the DoD CIO ZT PfMO

AWS Public Sector Blog

Addressing operational technology and mission partner environment: The DoD still needs to tackle the challenges of implementing zero trust in the operational technology and mission partner environments, and is looking to AWS and AWS Partners for solutions to simplify these complex areas.

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Strengthening public safety collaboration with AWS Wickr and the Android Team Awareness Kit

AWS Public Sector Blog

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.