AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Read on to learn about announcements from re:MARS related to the public sector, plus some of the innovative organizations and companies that were onsite to inspire guests with breakthrough technologies and ideas. Advancements in these fields are the engines that will drive innovation for the next 100 years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

This no cost, two-day event brings the public sector cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. Are you ready to join your public sector peers to find out how you can use cloud technology to drive culture change, digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, and more?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) is a federal government agency responsible for extending civilian foreign aid and development assistance, such as for countries that need disaster response and recovery resources, are trying to escape poverty, and are engaging in democratic reforms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Customers use this space data for initiatives like global climate monitoring, wildlife protection, disaster response, food security, and broadband accessibility. What we learned at Amazon re:MARS 2022 for the public sector. Managing the world’s natural resources with earth observation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Recently, AWS joined the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Education—among other leaders in the government and education community—to commit to improving the cybersecurity resilience of K12 education. According to Arden Peterkin, information security officer at Gwinnett County (Ga.)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

For public safety agencies, secure collaboration and situational awareness are essential to preparedness and response. First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center (PGC), REMA and ArcticDEM provide essential high-resolution terrain maps that help to inform climate policy and national security decision making. Homeland Security and Infrastructure US Cities managed by Hobu, Inc.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 17, 2024

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance offers: Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) accreditation: The appliance has achieved Impact Level 5 accreditation, the highest level of security controls and protection required for unclassified, but sensitive information.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

GDC Hosted includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete managed cloud. Use Vision AI to optimize natural disaster response, analyze infectious diseases, or detect fraud. GDC Hosted offers: 1.

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GovLoop

MARCH 12, 2024

Finding qualified employees to handle it, especially in the public sector, can be difficult. 1 consequence is loss of trust, said Richard Barlow, Principal Technologist for State Local Government and Education (East) with Pure Storage, which provides agencies with fast, secure, energy-efficient data storage.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted. Not just for our agency, but for the people that we serve.”.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 7, 2023

At Google Public Sector, we’ve had the privilege of working with customers to bring AI into their organizations. For example, the State of Oklahoma employed Google Cloud to create a secure 360-degree view of its assets, financials, and constituent use of government services to deliver targeted services to communities faster.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

This years awards saw a surge in nominations for digital public infrastructure (DPI) initiatives, evidence of the increased focus and importance it is playing in societies worldwide. A selection committee of public sector digital leaders from around the world chose winners from the nominations received.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

These technical perspectives include platforms, security, and operations. The crawl, walk, run approach for the security perspective. As mentioned in the previous post, we recommend that organizations take a crawl, walk, run approach to their cloud adoption.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Faced with the same budget constraints and limited staff resources that have affected the entire higher education industry, the university knew it couldnt build industry-leading security, reliability, scalability, and more capabilities in-house. Part of our journey is tied to theirs.

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