AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

AWS enables federal agencies to provide accessible communications through automated document-to-speech conversion. This solution combines Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) , Amazon Textract , and Amazon Polly to transform written government documents into high-quality audio content.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Defense (DoD) struggle to gain security approval to take advantage of the scaling of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) using its Auto Scaling capabilities. The key to ensuring security and compliance is ensuring proper documentation and securing the baseline template utilized.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The complexity of spacecraft operations has sky-rocketed with increased orbital activity and new satellite capabilities, like the ability to reconfigure capacity, power, and coverage on demand. Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Work backward from your understanding of what AI enables you to do The AnyOrganization chief operations officer (COO) recently read an AWS blog post that addressed generative AI for the public sector. Given their limited qualified workforce, examiners can only thoroughly review a small percentage of documentation.

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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. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework , GovTechs can build solutions that maximize cost efficiency, security, and resilience from the start.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

The platform helped the agency digitize and process forms, pictures, and other documents. The federal government agency Precise worked with needed to automate manual processes for document intake and image processing. For image processing, the agency does a lot of inspections and takes a lot of pictures.

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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. Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Sonnet to our U.S. What is Amazon Bedrock? Amazon Titan Text Embedding v2.

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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

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

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

MAY 1, 2024

After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend by 30 percent. The team recognized that having a documentation for the cutover with assignees, steps, time estimation, and dependencies helped anticipate and better prepare to tackle any deviations or issues.

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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. We knew we wanted to host any future solutions in a secure, scalable cloud. We needed a new approach to how technology was delivered.

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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 20, 2024

This self-contained solution uses two 20-foot shipping containers to create an ICD-705 compliant shielded enclosure, equipped as a data center with built-in power distribution, redundant cooling (N+1), security, monitoring, fire suppression, and other essential infrastructure components.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

The pandemic also accelerated government agencies’ adoption of new technologies to support team collaboration and more flexible work environments, including chat, video conferencing, and document sharing. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Ygor Lutz, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Travizory Border Security, guides us through artificial intelligence-powered BorderTech, which balances the need for both speed and security As competition between travel destinations increases, simplifying immigration processes remains a priority.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. It is important to note that operating in a given AWS 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.

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GovLoop

APRIL 15, 2025

Its found in the wide variety of content generated in employees day-to-day work: case notes, court filings, Word documents, Excel files, drone footage and PDF forms. These are examples of unstructured data information that doesn’t fit into the rows and columns of a traditional database.

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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 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. Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). How is StateRAMP different than FedRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Services such as real estate land title searches, emergency services, and more need to be operational in times of need. 1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager. Figure 2: Your runbook as Automation Documents. Automation of incident responses starts with a single step.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

A gap analysis should result in a documented framework. With an incident response plan comes with standard operating procedures that define who handles what during a security breach. Being prepared for a security breach may save a city significant cash and time. Cybersecurity…

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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. Transportation agencies need to manage access to critical infrastructure, operations data, and emergency response systems. Actions What operations are governed?

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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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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

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). Organizations have relied on a systems engineering approach to design complex systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. First, AWS provides compliance documentation for controls that are on the AWS side of the Shared Responsibility Model.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Institutional integration : A survey revealed that 62 percent of academic institutions are preparing to integrate AI into their operations within the next two years. Institutions that effectively harness AI can gain significant advantages in student recruitment, operational efficiency, and educational outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Government of Canada (GC) organizations handle sensitive data, such as citizens’ personal information and confidential documents, and take on the responsibility of appropriately securing and protecting this data from unauthorized access or disclosure. These datasets consumed 25 terabytes (TB) on their on-premise storage array.

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

On April 12, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) for satellite operators using Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with AWS Ground Station. The agent enables secure, reliable, high rate and low jitter data delivery.

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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

APRIL 10, 2025

EU government institutions operate differently from commercial entities and other public sector organizations worldwide. Architecting for the Cloud in EU Governments : Specialized learning plan for IT architects and enterprise architects, focuses on designing scalable, secure, and compliant cloud environments for EU government organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

First, a retrieval component identifies relevant documents or passages from a vast knowledge base, narrowing down the search space. Security and compliance: Anduril’s unwavering commitment As a defense technology company, Anduril operates in a highly regulated environment where data security and compliance are paramount.

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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

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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