AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. Building on the programs success, AWS will bring AWS Learning Days to new cities in 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This commitment reflects a growing recognition of higher educations vital role in addressing global and societal impacting challenges. Through research, teaching, and community engagement, educators are uniquely positioned to shape the next generation of leaders and innovators who will be looking to tackle these sustainability challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Managing access to websites and safeguarding users from harmful content is a critical component of a layered cybersecurity approach, especially in educational settings. AWS managed rule groups can be used to block access to known malware and botnet threats.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

At California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), procurement specialists manage over $190 million in annual spending across diverse commodity areas, many requiring detailed work scopes. Now in pilot, Scope Builder is demonstrating how it will save Cal Poly procurement team members time developing work scopes.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

“A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website. Some years ago, Code for America developed a journey map of what a citizen might experience when seeking criminal record expungement in Cook County, Ill.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework as a template, follow these five steps to prepare for the upcoming holiday season: Continuously educate through end-user training. Develop comprehensive incident response plans and procedures to handle potential outages or incidents during the holidays.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Global Skills Report draws data from 100 million learners in more than 100 countries who have used Coursera , a global online learning platform, to develop a new skill during the past year—with the goal of providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and campuses looking to understand the skill needs of their organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Higher education institutions are turning to data to solve challenges, improve efficiency, and create a better student experience. A data lake, or centralized repository for all data, is flexible and allows less technical users to manage and analyze diverse sets of data points.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

This blog is the first in a series that discusses how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in education. But can this groundbreaking innovation help in addressing more complex societal issues, such as the equality of access to education? This helps educators make deeper connections with students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research, and Innovation (MHESI) to boost innovation using cloud technology. Through this collaboration, AWS will support MHESI to identify pilot workloads for the ministry to start migrating to the AWS Cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) for Education , an industry-specific deployment of the LZA on AWS , designed to further support education customers in designing cloud environments for their compliance needs. One area of immediate concern is security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The tech industry in the state of Texas is booming, with a growing demand for skilled workers in cloud, information technology (IT), software development, and data analytics roles. These employers include: Brooksource , CoreStack , DLZP Group , JPMorganChase , TanChes Global Management , and TEKsystems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Curriculum Associates is an education technology ( EdTech ) company using data-driven technology to bring personalized, evidence-based learning to K12 education institutions. Their personalized assessment and instruction products serve more than 13 million students and over 1 million educators around the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 21, 2022

It’s important that the technology and methods educators use to teach these important skills aren’t barriers to learning. The browser-based computational notebook tool, Jupyter , provides students and educators with an interactive learning environment to accelerate programming learning. for students as early as possible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Leaders in education and state and local government know that technology is changing at a rapid pace. That’s the central theme of this year’s AWS IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no cost to attend; register now to secure your spot.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Data is key to a higher education institution’s ability to expose insights and improve student performance and outcomes. With many data solutions available, AWS can help education institutions map out an individualized data journey by starting simple, unlocking existing data, and moving toward a fully data-driven institution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The University of North Carolina (UNC) System is expanding education opportunities for adult learners in the state of North Carolina. But delivering a great online learning experience for students, faculty, and administrators requires higher education institutions to manage a legion of education technology (EdTech) services.

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Careers in Government

AUGUST 14, 2024

Performance management (PM) is an essential process in any organization, designed to ensure alignment of employees’ work with the company's goals and future development efforts. The post Performance Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Antiquated appeared first on Careers in Government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Data consumption is a key component of successfully supporting K12 students, educators, and education leaders because it can provide a unified and democratized view of their data, regardless of their technical background, with the help of business intelligence (BI) tools. IT departments have options when it comes to BI tools.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The initiative brings together a coalition of Fortune 500 companies and other employers, government agencies, workforce development organizations, and education leaders to better prepare learners for entry-level tech careers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Leaders in higher education recognize that generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud computing, and other advanced technologies are rapidly changing how education and research happen on campus.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At this year’s IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders, three K12 technology leaders convened to answer the question: How can the cloud help innovative ideas scale and expand in K12 education? Similarly, a Texas education service center is moving to the cloud to go to market more quickly.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To help develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for the project, Alig reached out to Peter Fader, the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at Wharton. Alig credits AWS for helping speed the POC’s development, saying, “The AWS team was instrumental in training and testing the LLMs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers and education industry experts highlighted earlier this year in the “ Innovation drivers in higher education ” report, student demand for comprehensive sustainability strategies is a key factor in driving this change. Sustainability is becoming a priority topic across public sector organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation is essential in developing solutions that address global sustainability challenges. The ASU CIC has also been exploring the use of digital twin technology and developed a digital twin platform for Downtown Phoenix, Inc. News & World Report. This enriches the student learning experience well beyond the classroom.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The CIC uses emerging technologies to solve real-world problems and has produced more than 50 prototypes in sectors like healthcare, education, and research. High-level technical solution AWS recommends using AWS Control Tower as a foundational landing zone for managing multi-account environments with prescriptive controls.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation. Its also vital to develop a cloud-skilled workforce to support sustainable innovation and partner with leading cloud providers to accelerate adoption and attract investment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These one-on-one consulting engagements have covered topics such as developing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and maximizing profitability with AWS in public sector. These solutions included summarization, information extraction, sentiment analysis, topic classification, and data visualization.

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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

MAY 15, 2024

Through its online programs, IU aims to give people worldwide access to highly individualized education, enabling them to further enrich their lives. Dr. Sven Schütt, CEO of IU, is a thought leader in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a vision to democratize education worldwide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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. Discover how four AWS EdStart Members use AWS to create more connected and engaging educational experiences for learners around the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Cloud computing technology is transforming education, driving new expectations in personalized learning, academic medicine, and research. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been at the forefront with innovative educators, researchers, and medical professionals to modernize classrooms, labs, libraries, and medical centers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

However, in my experience as a former chief financial officer (CFO) in higher education , financial planning for cloud computing is often not attended to with as much diligence. Financial planning needs to be understood as a positive feature of digital transformation, even if it means changing how financial plans are developed and managed.

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