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Last year, the Office of Management and Budget released FedRAMP guidance intended to make it easier and faster for federal agencies to put cloud solutions to work. Since the establishment of FedRAMP in 2011, cloud solutions have exploded, and they continue to grow exponentially. In addition, cloud services open the door to emerging technologies for federal organizations, empowering them to quickly innovate and improve productivity.
In a brief, West Virginia University notes, A 2022 mainframe failure disrupted West Virginians access to online government resources like health services and risked the states ability to perform basic functions like revenue collection. After the mainframe failure, West Virginia moved its workloads to a private cloud solution. Doing so sped the states IT modernization capabilities, the brief concludes.
Microsoft Federal CTO Jason Payne has worked for Microsoft for roughly eight years. In that time, he has seen a great deal of innovation in the Microsoft Teams platform and how federal agencies use it to conduct on-premises, hybrid and remote meetings. Payne always has focused on government transformation, but now hes assisting federal agencies with implementing artificial intelligence in service of transformation.
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Amazon Bedrock is now generally available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud. 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. Amazon Bedrock enables customers to leverage generative AI capabilities while maintaining the highest levels of security and data protection required for thei
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Amazon Bedrock is now generally available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud. 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. Amazon Bedrock enables customers to leverage generative AI capabilities while maintaining the highest levels of security and data protection required for thei
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