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. This simplifies the creation of a proof of concept and reduces development cost. Traditionally, this has been accomplished through on-site web filtering appliances.

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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. Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done.

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

During the panel, Tsui and Shen shared how their institutions use AWS to augment and enhance their research operations with more scalability, security, and collaboration alongside their on-premises infrastructure. Rethink funding models Cloud computing shifts research budgets from capital expenses (CapEx) to operational expenses (OpEx).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

It plays a key role in developing DPI: secure, interoperable digital systems based on open standards, that provide broad accessibility while aligning with national policies. An agile approach to the softwares development involved rapid prototyping, followed by iterative improvements.

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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

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

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

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

MAY 1, 2024

Renaissance Learning is a global leader in the pre-K–12 education technology (EdTech) space. DnA’s engineering team, led by director of engineering Sebastian Gunn-Hamner, is located in the US and India and is responsible for both the development and operation of the application, which supports 1,000-plus customers.

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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

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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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

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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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. Sample screenshot from a learning video.

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

Economic Development Administration (EDA) with strong bipartisan support. 3891) , the first in 20 years, is included as part of the Water Resources Development Act (S. Planning activities related devising, implementing, and updating a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) are eligible for funding.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

At the IMAGINE 2022 conference in Seattle, Washington, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the inaugural class of the AWS Education Champions community. The AWS Education Champions community is a new program to celebrate and support influential individuals whose work accelerates the digital transformation of education with the AWS Cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Discover some of the key announcements related to K12 education : New features to power education data analytics. Many schools and education service agencies are looking for ways to securely share, store, analyze, and visualize data for a variety of use cases. and Python 3.10

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development. Photo credit: World Bank Transport Team 2) Road infrastructures connect households to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

AWS has helped ASTERRA overcome traditional on-premises infrastructure limitations and to accelerate the development of solutions for anticipating and mitigating failures, saving water, energy, and avoiding carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions as a result. As an example, the company chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy EO Discover.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into K12 education that teaches skills-based learning with real-world applications can help students develop critical thinking skills. There is a continuing global shortage of STEM talent and many communities in the US do not have equal access to high-quality STEM education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Cloud computing is a key enabler of digital transformation, and underscores the innovation charter in all kinds of organisations today,” said Valerie Singer , general manager of AWS Worldwide Public Sector Global Education.

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Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Educators, researchers, IT professionals, student developers, and C-suite leaders showed up in full force in August for Google Cloud Next , our global showcase for the latest cloud technologies and success stories. It can generate cost efficiencies–the time to value for insights– for both research and operations.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article looks at how fraud has evolved, why continuous professional development (CPD) is crucial for fraud investigators, and some practical ways to stay sharp in the fight against fraud Fraud isnt new; humans have been conning each other since the first trade deals. But in todays hyper-connected world, the game has changed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance in France brings together education institutions such as Epitech , ECE Paris , CPE, Lyon , ENSITECH , PST&B , HETIC , DSTI , Datascientest ; community organizations such as France Travail , Numeum ; and employers such as Apside and Capgemini.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2025

As European institutions race to meet ambitious digital transformation goals for 2024-2029, workforce skills development has become critical. EU government institutions operate differently from commercial entities and other public sector organizations worldwide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Following these guidelines, AI can be safely leveraged to assist educators and administrators in both classrooms and school operations. On the classroom level, educators can leverage AI to predict variables contributing to student success, such as attendance and grade data, and compare them with previous years.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Merlyn Mind is demystifying AI for enterprises and transforming how people and computers work together, starting with educators. “We In education, for example, teachers, students, and administrators have domain-specific needs, all of which custom AI assistants can help address to improve productivity and enhance outcomes. “The

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Containers also facilitate rapid development and deployment of services, allowing organizations to roll out new applications and updates quickly. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an important and growing presence, AWS is investing significantly in supporting skills and education programs to promote a thriving workforce. In 2020 alone, AWS investment in the construction and operation of data centers contributed $1.3

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

according to the World Bank —a recent global survey by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Gallup revealed “myriad positive outcomes” for those who develop their digital skills, including higher salaries, job satisfaction, and increased revenue and innovation for the organizations that employ digitally skilled people.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

provides innovative services to organizations operating in the automotive and transportation sectors, offering real-time parking and traffic information and solutions for road safety. Partnering with AWS on the week’s goals enabled us to educate our teams on recent, most relevant innovations in AWS Bedrock prior to the event.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. Pearson is a British multinational publishing and education company whose mission is to help people make progress in their lives through learning.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When ranking the most significant developments of the digital age, the evolution of data storage does not garner many glamour points. Yet few innovations have had such a profound impact on the ability to develop new technologies and perform tasks previously unimaginable. Navigating the information flood.

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