AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

In an increasingly digital world, governments and public sector entities are seeking secure and efficient ways to use cloud technologies. In this post, I share how we at AWS are collaborating with national cyber regulators and other public sector entities to enable secure adoption of the AWS Cloud across countries public sectors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) has immense potential to deliver inclusive, secure, and foundational digital capabilities for entire nations efficiently and fast. The Sri Lankan government urgently sought a solution to equitably manage fuel distribution through systematic rationing, requiring rapid digital intervention.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the federal government, organizations face unique challenges in meeting strict security and compliance requirements. Assured Open Source Software : Offers a curated catalog of audited and approved open-source software helping ensure compliance and security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, LLMs alone may fall short in providing timely and relevant insights, especially for agencies managing dynamic and time-sensitive operations. This capability is crucial for effective public sector planning and decision-making. User: Does AWS have any recent FedRAMP compliance documents?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

These customers highlight three main advantages of procuring software through AWS Marketplace: speed, security and governance, and economic benefits. By listing on AWS Marketplace , Coursera has been able to extend the adoption of its targeted content and engaging learning formats to foster continuous skill development for lifelong learners.

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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

JULY 1, 2024

CreatorUp helps the education sector meet content demand—quickly When it comes to developing digital course content, one of the biggest challenges is scalability. That was the equivalent of 56 feature films that we developed,” says Almond. Thanks to CreatorUp—and the AI infrastructure provided by AWS—this demand was quickly met.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Furthermore, the sensitive nature of genomic data mandates a secure environment for processing and storage. However, for bioinformatics workflows involving multiple tools, the process of pulling each image can be time-consuming and challenging to manage.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy. Benefits of a multi-account AWS environment Using multiple AWS accounts helps isolate workloads and data, establishes a secure framework for workloads, and aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

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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. In 2020, Bahrain established the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) to strengthen digital security. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In todays digital landscape, federal agencies face unprecedented challenges in securing their complex information technology (IT) infrastructure. Map your zero trust strategy to the AWS zero trust guidance, and leverage services and best practices from AWS to design a robust and secure architecture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

As the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud provider, we recognize our role and responsibility in supporting customers to use health data securely and responsibly. At AWS, security will always be our top priority. AWS is architected to be the most secure cloud computing environment available today.

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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

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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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Support from AWS allows us to efficiently identify cancer markers that predict which patients benefit the most from this novel treatment and ultimately can help us develop a next generation drug that works even better,” said Jill Kolesar, Dean and Professor at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. The Aspira Women’s Health lab team.

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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

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 11, 2023

These silos can require different platforms, different management, different security, and different authorization approaches. Learn more about the agile approach for developing government services. As public sector organizations accumulate a significant amount of data, much of that data lives in different silos.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To support federal customers in addressing these challenges, Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Data Fabric Security (DFS) on AWS solution to support the identity and access needs of a multi-organization system. This will facilitate agile and secure data sharing with their providers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 30, 2024

Efficient code review processes are vital across all customer segments, both commercial and public sector, where strict regulations, data security, and service excellence are paramount. Streamlined code reviews maintain software quality, mitigate security risks, and enhance operational efficiency.

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APRIL 14, 2025

Ali Farooqui, Head of Cyber Security at BJSS , now part of CGI , explores how companies can balance the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) with robust cybersecurity practices “Can AI do it?” AI has enabled attackers to build vectors more quickly, allowing their tools to adjust more efficiently to new security measures.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Amazon Bedrock enables customers to leverage generative AI capabilities while maintaining the highest levels of security and data protection required for their Top Secret workloads.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We explore the different security considerations for each protocol based on guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). Finally, we highlight how Amazon Web Services (AWS) services can help address these security considerations. Enable AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Regularly rotate certificates.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Global leaders are convening in Germany this week at the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) to discuss key foreign policy and security challenges. government security and compliance needs with the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region in 2011. In the U.S.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

However, securing robust and safe AI infrastructure is a growing concern for governments and federal agencies While AI can be considered useful for innovation and economic growth, it also brings some challenges regarding national security risks. This new initiative, led by the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

But they also navigate a unique set of industry challenges, from cost constraints and regulatory hurdles to the need for scalable, secure innovation. Modernizing legacy software and developing digital-native solutions both require scalable, flexible infrastructure, along with expert guidance to optimize costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). What is StateRAMP?

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