AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Floodmapp, an Australian startup, has developed a real-time flood mapping and monitoring platform that uses AWS services such as AWS Batch and Amazon Elastic Container Service to provide accurate, location-specific flood data. This collaborative approach is crucial in addressing the complex, broad-reaching nature of water challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition to matching generative AI development priorities to business needs, leaders and technologists must sufficiently understand the capabilities of generative AI in order to validate if it is the right tool for the job. Develop the foundational capabilities that enable this journey.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

When Department of the Air Force (DAF) software factories scale their cloud operations across mission-critical environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging becomes crucial for security, compliance, and operational effectiveness. The framework provides a solid foundation that can evolve with changing cloud governance needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tools such as Amazon GuardDuty , Amazon CloudWatch , AWS Security Hub , and AWS CloudTrail can be configured to monitor critical resources and set up alerts for any issues or deviations from normal operational parameters. Develop comprehensive incident response plans and procedures to handle potential outages or incidents during the holidays.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

These silos can require different platforms, different management, different security, and different authorization approaches. All of this increases the operational risk and the operational cost – and can make it difficult to analyze data holistically. Learn more about the agile approach for developing government services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The consolidation also improved staff productivity by reducing the cognitive load to manage multiple clouds. 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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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Security-first development with Google Cloud Google Cloud offers a suite of developer tools to streamline your workflow and enhance security: Cloud Workstations : Enables secure, cloud-based workstations for remote work without compromising security.

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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 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. To scale dynamically based on customer demand, ASTERRA migrated these workloads to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy. AWS best practice is to deploy workloads into separate accounts, one account per software development lifecycle (SDLC) environment. A multi-account strategy is a core AWS best practice.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 19, 2024

Talent management starts by addressing workforce challenges, adapting to generational needs, leveraging technology in operations, and developing leadership for talent retention.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Public sector organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment, managing diverse workloads and maintaining a high level of security. Although authentication is often managed through external identity providers (IdPs) such as Amazon Cognito , authorization logic is usually implemented within the application code.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 30, 2024

Streamlined code reviews maintain software quality, mitigate security risks, and enhance operational efficiency. SoftwareOne developed SummarAIze, which is software for automatic generation of GitHub pull request descriptions that is driven by AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Renzo Rodriguez, managing director of US Federal Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Les Call, director of the Department of Defense CIO Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, in a recent episode of Mission Innovation, powered by AWS , to explore the challenges and strategies of implementing zero trust within the DoD.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This post discusses the management of AWS in higher education institutions, emphasizing governance to securely foster innovation without compromising security and detailing policies and responsibilities for managing AWS accounts across projects and research. These OUs help apply management controls like service control policies (SCPs).

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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

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. Use the PutItem API call to save the key-value pairs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The mandate to innovate and modernize digital operations has never been more urgent. Cloud migration drives transformation Cloud migration has become a cornerstone for federal agencies seeking to modernize their digital operations and unlock mission success. For the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Todays higher education institutions face numerous challenges, from creating a financially sustainable future and managing operational efficiencies, to providing students with access to future-proof skilling programs and ever-evolving cutting-edge research infrastructure. AWS is up to 4.1

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

This comprehensive solution guide will enable public sector organizations to reduce the risks and costs of managing legacy systems while lowering their IT carbon footprint by moving to the cloud. Public sector organizations can use the AWS solution guide for legacy transformation to develop a structured plan to address legacy.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Digital Identity Ecosystems: Government agencies could play a vital role in the development of systems for managing the use of digital identities across the public and private sectors.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. Since Amazon Bedrock is serverless, customers dont have to manage any infrastructure, and they can securely integrate and deploy generative AI capabilities into their applications using the AWS services they are already familiar with.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

The traditional process of implementing new solutionsfrom defining requirements through to deployment and trainingoften meant that by the time a system was fully operational, business needs had evolved. It encourages staff at all levels to propose ideas for solutions to transform our work and operational efficiency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The hospital also needed a more efficient method to manage test results and pharmacy billing. A sustainable solution We built on top of existing open source tools such as OpenMRS (for clinical records), OpenELIS (for lab management), odoo (pharmacy and billing) and dcm4Chee (for Radiology).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Building modern applications with containers Containers are lightweight, versatile, and portable units that are revolutionizing the way modern applications are built, deployed, and managed. Containers also facilitate rapid development and deployment of services, allowing organizations to roll out new applications and updates quickly.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 3, 2025

A new revolutionary quantum clock developed by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is expected to transform military operations by providing them with more precise timing This new technology is a big leap forward in reducing reliance on GPS, often vulnerable to jamming and disruption, particularly in conflict zones.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development. With 189 member countries, the World Bank is the largest multilateral development bank globally with a mission to reduce poverty and increase shared prosperity in a sustainable way. A road in rural Peru.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. According to GAO, reliance on older languages carries risks “such as a rise in procurement and operating costs, and a decrease in the availability of individuals with the proper skill sets.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe. The project aims to demonstrate a network architecture that uses both commercial capabilities and U.S.

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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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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Geopolitical tensions have been rising, creating significant risks for companies, especially those operating internationally. Here is how to plan ahead.

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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. He says the transition to EVs offer a promising avenue for reducing operational and maintenance costs. On the other hand, a more daunting task lies in the build-out of charging infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

If youre interested learning how to engage with an AWS Partner, this session reveals how the latest AWS Partner Program updates and innovationsincluding generative AI programs, digital sovereignty, solution building, and managed servicescan help propel your organization forward.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

Banks, PSHRA-SCP, EdD, MBA, Organization Design & Development Manager, US Office of Personnel Management and Owner-operator of Banks & Banks Consulting Company, spoke on how to ensure your 2025 goals are not only set, but met. Also, don’t forget to register for our next New Supervisors CoP on Feb.

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