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

APRIL 8, 2024

In response, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped Educause develop a Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment grounded in responsible use. Educause is a nonprofit membership association committed to advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management. The Performance Management Process Cycle The adoption and implementation of performance management in community development, however, pose a unique challenge due to how these services are structured and organized.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To discuss this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently hosted a webinar, Rethink how to hire and retain top performing talent , which assembled a panel of government officials and workforce planning experts. Develop an inclusive workforce with strategic DEI initiatives. Learn more about workforce development for the public sector.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Government agencies consistently seek qualified talent to help with tech implementations. Training current personnel could be a powerful solution that helps state and local governments fill the skills gap.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you’re interested in learning more about this TTM, please speak to your AWS Partner Development Manager or contact AWS. These partners’ impact spans globally, making a significant difference in the lives of citizens across the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Once Civix outlined their priorities to AWS, the AWS teams hosted personalized development sessions tailored to designing the solution. The AWS teams established weekly touchpoints to elaborate on best practices for each of the phases of design, development, and validation. In just nine months, the Civix Ethics API was born.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Consequently, these organizations must implement systems with fine-grained access controls to make sure that only authorized individuals can view the data they are permitted to access. Each application implements its own authorization approach, leading to inconsistency and redundant effort.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions (ERPs) are becoming cheaper and faster to implement, meaning they may be a viable solution for agencies boosting their agility now that the worst of the pandemic is over. While these tools provide the basics, they also have a few shortcomings—namely, their lack of transparency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To make hearings visible to the public, even when in-person attendance is limited, state and local governments are beginning to mandate many court proceedings be live streamed, often with a very short window to do so. Read more about AWS for state and local government: Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

This presentation from re:Invent 2024 highlights how the Santa Clara County (SCC) Public Health Department worked with the AWS Professional Services team to implement a collaborative public health data platform. Watch this lightning talk to learn how you can empower your CloudOps teams to do more with a governance-by-default approach.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The university will work with AWS to implement enhanced high performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and more, to accelerate its research capabilities and provide a new platform for innovation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. The DHHS took an innovative approach to implement a solution rapidly. The team chose to develop the new Encounter Processing System (EPS) internally and deploy it in the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. Iowa Workforce Development relied on voice chat assistants to answer FAQs when claim volume exploded by more than 2,100 percent.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Center for Community Progress is exploring an emerging trend where land banks and land conservancies partner to implement vacant land stewardship. They may acquire land outright or work with owners to protect the natural resources of the land and prevent future development.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 27, 2025

In an effort to improve efficiency while addressing challenges like workforce adaption and data privacy, Georgias state and local agencies are rapidly integrating AI and GenAI into their IT modernization efforts. Here we explore the AI challenges state and local agencies face and six best practices to guide government AI adoption strategies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Building architectures that incorporate GraphQL can help developers evolve their APIs over time and solve shortcomings and inefficiencies associated with REST APIs. GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. AWS AppSync is available in most AWS Regions. x installed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

AWS is vigilant about security,” said Tami Fillyaw, AWS finance and administration leader for state and local government. Fillyaw adds that AWS is architected for government security requirements, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, NIST 800-171, and IRS 1075.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

CDW expanded the digital velocity services it offers state and local government agencies with its acquisition Tuesday of Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud solutions provider.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2022, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) initiated a pilot project to analyze traffic patterns and provide analytics within the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The PIDC is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the historic shipyard, which is now a thriving, mixed-use campus.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA. Once you have formed the team delivering your cloud foundation, you can use the following guidance to help implement the solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Today, as governments and city leaders look to shape cities of the future, they are actively looking to meet citizen needs for smarter and more innovative urban services. However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) works closely NASCIO and with state and local leaders across the US to develop solutions that address these top 10 needs. In this blog post, explore these top 10 priorities and how state and local leaders can use AWS to support them.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

AI is positively transforming government operations and being used to support mission outcomes across a wide range of services, from improving patient care, enhancing learning and education, improving public safety, streamlining citizen services, and so much more. At Google Public Sector, were passionate about supporting your mission.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Implementations like these routinely take several years, and project failures are common. The key drivers of success for IDOC were agency executive leadership commitment, subject matter experts (SMEs), and Mi-Case’s agile project methodology which resulted in an on-time and on-budget implementation.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Housing and building code enforcement is one of local governments most important tools to stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods. In Cleveland, we are helping the City develop a new training curriculum for code enforcement officers and staff centered around a strategic code compliance approach.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

A basic Connect implementation addressed New Mexico’s immediate COVID pain points, but the HSD team didn’t stop with the basics. After implementing their new contact center, they consolidated 150 phone numbers into two—one for customers, one for providers. We were able to move to AWS, to Connect, basically overnight. It was awesome.”

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Because of the urgent need for decarbonization and reducing climate change, local government fleet managers are facing several major trends. Many local governments across the country have set ambitious climate targets, recognizing the substantial contribution of their vehicle fleets to their overall carbon footprint.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

In South Korea, cafeterias implementing ZWZH reduced overall food waste by an average of 30%, while on-plate food waste was reduced by up to 42%. For example, more state and local governments are increasingly relying on the cloud to deliver the right resources at the right time, ranging from unemployment insurance to human services.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 21, 2024

“It’s important to note that local governments have developed a reputation over the years for having lackluster cybersecurity; and not without good reason. Boateng lists the following IT weaknesses that are sometimes found in local government technology departments: Weak authentication.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

StateRAMP assumes that state and local government data will likely be at the Moderate impact level. Conclusion Customers can use AWS to develop solutions that support StateRAMP and FedRAMP authorization. In AWS Artifact, customers can find the FedRAMP Customer Package and the AWS Customer Compliance guides (CCG).

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2025

This platform should be user-friendly with robust search capabilities, clear access routes, and strong governance protocols. Key points to consider: An authoritative single point-of-entry to access major regional and local government datasets, whether held in the platform itself or elsewhere.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

For state and local government leaders, technology modernization projects are often viewed as monumental undertakings characterized by complexity and uncertainty. He is well-versed in system planning and development efforts for child support enforcement, child welfare, SNAP and TANF programs and Medicaid projects.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

However, given that one of the first things these institutions must do to realize these benefits is to develop a strategy for how to configure these cloud-based solutions in accordance to their security and compliance needs, a key question that may arise is: “How do we run sensitive workloads in AWS?” The LZA for Healthcare architecture.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Numerous local governments have taken huge strides in just the past year to embrace emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology, whether applying it to streamline government tasks or simply establishing guidelines for its usage. Develop a “North American Compact” for AI. It could support public universities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

While the new CMS policy is a positive step toward breaking the recidivism cycle, implementation is not straightforward—especially given compliance issues and the siloed nature of both government agencies and recordkeeping. This coordination reduces the likelihood of relapse and hospitalization.

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GovPilot

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not only does data give local governments insight into the communities that they serve, but it also can be used to measure the effectiveness of previously implemented strategies in order to develop new, more proficient strategies. In today's technologically driven world, data is a vital commodity.

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