AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies. Customers can switch seamlessly between self-hosted LLMs and externally hosted models.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the exchange of sensitive health data introduces many complexities, requiring specialized solutions to make sure information is shared securely and in consistent formats across organizations. and has undergone independent security assessment conducted by a third-party assessment organization (3PAO).

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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 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). 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. AWS and customers work together using the AWS shared responsibility model which, among many benefits, provides customers a framework to inherit select AWS compliance controls, such as physical security. Security Reference Architecture for U.S. commercial regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Given their limited qualified workforce, examiners can only thoroughly review a small percentage of documentation. After consulting with their AWS account team, IT, and business stakeholders, the COO approves the following expected business outcomes after the implementation of the new generative AI solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

In this post, we will explore how various Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions can be used to create a secure, retrieval-augmented, and cost-effective biomedical chatbot designed to facilitate biocuration. This ensures a seamless and secure entry point for the application.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Handling approximately 285,000 legal cases annually means that the Nebraska Judicial Branch manages hundreds of thousands of paper documents, audio and video files, and various forms of evidence every year. In the public sector, security and compliance are pivotal aspects of digital transformation. Watch a recording of this session.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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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. It can detect abnormal behavior and alert you to any potential security issues.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Agency leaders can use Document AI to help process paper and images at scale to better deliver services to their constituents. Document AI helps accelerate the speed of innovation, cuts document and image processing time, and extracts information at scale by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ensure high accuracy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Platforms have evolved into tightly integrated systems of systems, which is driving organizations to transform their document-based systems engineering processes into digital engineering and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). It requires an assessment of all security controls.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

This assessment can point to areas of focus as institutions rapidly build skills, policies, and best practices that will support students, tutoring assistants, multi-lingual campus navigators, and new staff with generative AI-powered tools such as onboarding assistants, intelligent document processing (IDP), and more.

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

This skills gap is even wider in the public sector, where 60 percent of IT professionals reported in a 2024 Salesforce survey that their biggest challenge in implementing AI solutions is lack of knowledge. Browse the catalog of 2024 session presentations here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

When implemented in a real-time production environment that serves a particular citizen-centric use case, DPI-based solutions are often referred to as digital public goods (DPG). Some common challenges include lack of access to skilled resources or the need for better security and observability.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA.

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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. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With this mental model in mind, here are the three steps to implement it in practice, starting with an existing asset: your incident management runbook. 1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager. Figure 2: Your runbook as Automation Documents. 2) Setup AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. The impact level is based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-60r1 , which outlines how to map information and information systems to various security categories.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2025

Building on Googles commitment to provide secure and innovative AI solutions for the public sector, Gemini in Workspace apps and the Gemini app are the first generative AI assistants for productivity and collaboration suites to have achieved FedRAMP High authorization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agencies can no longer rely on traditional network access methods, such as virtual private networks (VPN) and conventional wide-area network (WAN) technologies, to provide employees and users with a reliable and secure remote access experience. model for securing internet points of presence and external connections for the government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

They know that while AI has the potential to be transformative for K12 schools, it must be implemented carefully. These are fundamental tools to guide school districts as they implement generative AI in their schools. In addition to enhancing school safety, the technology enables quicker response time to security incidents.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 27, 2024

However, there is one lingering question that has always and continues to be in the background: “How to balance accessibility, productivity and security in an AI world.” Before jumping in with Accessibility and Security discussion, I wanted to quickly review AI and Copilot to share why so many users are excited. What is AI and Copilot?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. This walkthrough assumes the customer has already implemented the C1 component. Federal and U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Some US federal agencies and those who collaborate with them must support an automated, secure, and scalable multi-account cloud environment that meets Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards. Customers that need to align with CMMC 2.0 For example, CMMC 2.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Digital advocates of the year Winner: Digital Identity Directorate Team – Brazil The Digital Identity Directorate Team implemented the innovative GOV.BR Digital Identity , revolutionizing Brazilian citizens’ relationship with the public sector through a secure, simple, and interoperable identity. Released in 2019, GOV.BR

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework is designed to help build resilient, secure, and efficient solutions. It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The newly-released Google Workspace security guidance can help government agencies reach compliance by providing steps they can follow to introduce Google Workspace tools while adhering to the GC standards. The guidance can help Canadian teams collaborate without compromising security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this post, learn use cases for digital twins, plus how to create an open-source digital twin sample front-end application built with AWS Amplify , Amazon Cognito , and AWS IoT Core that you can use as a starting point for building efficient, scalable, and secure digital twin solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Modernizing critical applications includes challenges of undocumented and complex business rules, technical obstacles, regulatory compliance, enterprise-grade security, and privacy. The business rules embedded in legacy code are often complex and poorly documented.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Case exhibits include documents, images, videos, audio recordings, and physical evidence presented during a trial or hearing to support facts presented in the case. It can be challenging to keep these exhibits secure, and physical space to store these documents is limited.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From recorded testimonies to jail cell conversations, audiovisual files can play an important role in accurately documenting evidence that can make or break a case. The user identifies specific words of interest to be highlighted in the document and initiates the transcription process.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping leading tax authorities around the world to migrate and modernize their mission critical tax systems in the cloud, allowing them to achieve better service reliability, scalability, and security, while paving the way for new and innovative business functionality.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation. billion) of its current IT spending.

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