AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

This no-cost, in-person event helps nonprofits rethink whats possible for their missions with cloud technology. The event will feature presentations from Bernice Martin Lee, CEO of the Epilepsy Foundation , and Niraj Swami, senior director of conservation tech strategy and enablement at The Nature Conservancy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Studies indicate these events improve individual and organizational productivity, strengthen company culture, increase collaboration, and accelerate learning. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a natural complement to these events, because the utility model reduces the cost of experimentation, accelerating progress.

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California Department of Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

November 27, 2024 – On November 21, CDT marked the 25th Anniversary of GIS Day with a day-long event at the May Lee State Office Complex. Continue reading CDT Hosts a Milestone GIS Event at TechBlog.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

To address these needs, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days , a series of no-cost in-person events nationwide. These one-day events provide IT professionals and business executives in state and local government (SLG) and education with hands-on learning opportunities to grow their cloud skills.

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Careers in Government

MAY 24, 2024

How you perceive things, events, people, and interactions is an ongoing activity, second by second, minute by minute, day by day. The post Leadership and Perception appeared first on Careers in Government.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These extreme events, and water quantity and quality issues more broadly, are pressing concerns in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, further aggravated by the uncertain impacts of climate change. Climate change is a global issue, but its localized impacts can vary significantly across different regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 26, 2024

Route or geofence ingestion and processing –The event driven architecture triggers a Lambda function that curates a shape and trip text file from a GTFS repository once it arrives in an Amazon S3 bucket. Exit event CloudWatch log. After processing is done, it loads the processed route into a geofence collection in Amazon Location.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the wake of devastating events such as Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, which recently hit Florida, traditional contact centers face… This isn’t just a phone system, it’s the first direct connection between citizens and the support they need, often making the difference between confusion and clarity and safety and danger.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

with the cost of 18 weather events totaling more than $175 billion. The report indicates that natural disasters are becoming more prevalent, expensive and diverse, with a mix of floods, winter storms, wildfires and other predictable and unpredictable events wreaking havoc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Students use the app to access a wide range of resources, including registering for classes through LionPATH, viewing email, accessing maps, viewing campus event calendars, looking up live shuttle transportation information, and ordering food through Penn State Eats. “A For recurring events, we can literally stand them up in about 30 minutes.”

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Show your agency’s colors and attend college events, job-fairs, trade shows and other industry events. She urges local government officials to either attend or create career events at venues where diverse populations gather. These tools include: Run advertising on well-trafficked business sites, such as LinkedIn and Indeed.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 2, 2024

State and federal nonprofit agencies often speak about their cybersecurity programs at the event, and municipal leaders can pose questions. “This was a way of getting people together to share business cards and ideas — almost crowdsourcing across the state — so the first time an incident happens, you already know people,” he says.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Agencies looking for solutions to support their security operations centers will likely come across three proven tactics that can help governments stay secure and protect citizen data: Security information and event management (SIEM) Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) Extended detection and response (XDR) Each of these centralized (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

Attendees watch and listen as Dave Levy, right, speaks during his fireside chat at the event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI.” On June 27, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Atlantic Council Geotech Center co-hosted an event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI,” during the annual AWS Summit Washington, DC.

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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). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.

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Summer Camp Programming

JANUARY 17, 2023

Here’s an event you can add to your Wild West theme. Start by having your campers gather gold. They can dig for it at a creek, find nuggets lying around camp, or search for hidden nuggets in particular areas. You could even have them earn gold during the week. Once everyone has had an opportunity […].

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 31, 2024

When the annual Spokane County Interstate Fair comes around this September, most of those who attend the 10-day event will first have to purchase a ticket at the gate. What won’t they need to buy once they’re cleared to go inside? Access to the fair’s public Wi-Fi network, which is free to anyone who wants to use it.

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Next City

JUNE 14, 2023

At the annual Hugs Not Walls event, it's a logistical challenge to clear the way for families to reunite in the river while border patrol officers promise not to intervene.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), as defined by Gartner, “combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event… What Is AIOps?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

These events served as a reminder of the valuable role AWS has in creating meaningful solutions to complex world problems, but we can’t – and don’t – do it alone. We are proud to make a $10 million donation in credits to help expand access to AI technology around the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The hackathon is a satellite event of the biennial international scientific conference series, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics ( NTTS ). They opted to build a cloud solution, which would let them increase or decrease the size and number of servers as needed during the event, saving energy and costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

During this heatwave, the UK Meteorological Office (Met Office) released their first ever Red Warning for heat, issued in the event that there is a high chance that civilians will feel dangerous impacts of weather.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Tech Alliance has also organized more than 40 events, successfully connecting talented individuals from their acceleration programs to potential employers. The event was successful, with more than 90 women interviewed in-person by 12 companies.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

People flock to urban entertainment districts for sporting events, nightlife and social gatherings, often making them tricky places to patrol for safety. As more municipalities experiment with smart city technology, quite a few are making initial investments in these busy zones where the Internet of Things can assist with public safety.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Real-time content delivery to audience is time-critical, no matter the scale, from corporate events to sports and live auctions. For example, a question and answer (Q&A) feature using Amazon MemoryDB for Redis and using [ Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics ] to capture user events and feed into our analytic engine.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This annual event empowers customers and partners to rethink what’s possible for their mission, through the latest innovations in the cloud. Download the AWS Events app to either favorite or register for the sessions you’re interested in. Discover new ideas, build connections, and interact with cutting-edge technology.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 15, 2023

As these events increase in number and severity, so has the reliance on. Rebuilding and recovering from disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, can take years. Millions of Americans and hundreds of communities are affected by disasters each year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

The data processing workflow leverages several AWS services to manage and process data based on specific conditions and events. Event-base processing via AWS Step Functions When a new file arrives in Amazon S3, an Amazon EventBridge rule triggers an AWS Step Functions state machine.

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Summer Camp Programming

JANUARY 12, 2023

Here’s a competition/event campers will really enjoy. It’s called Quest for the Holy Grail. This is a perfect activity for a Medieval week. PREP WORK Find a really ugly vase or an old looking cup. Take a picture of it. Hide it somewhere at camp. It could be buried, locked away, or hidden in plain […].

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NLC (National League of Cities)

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As downtowns progress, they are welcoming residents to shop, explore and enjoy their surroundings as city centers become destinations for daylong enjoyment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

An in-person event kicks off the accelerator on January 9-11, 2024 at Amazon’s Seattle Headquarters. At the end of the ten weeks, the cohort participates in a virtual pitch event in collaboration with OMNIA Partners, an experienced cooperative purchasing organization dedicated to public sector procurement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The resulting membership platform was built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using serverless technologies and event-driven architecture to help scale to meet demand, improve reliability, and reduce overall cost. Building an event-driven architecture for membership services on AWS Figure 1.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

If residents were willing to dig hard enough, they could find details about upcoming events and subscribe to project-related emails. Until relatively recently, Kaiser says, Fairfax had largely relied on what he describes as “buried” informational blurbs and graphics posted on the city’s website.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

GuardDuty analyzes event details from VPC flow logs, DNS logs, and AWS CloudTrail without any additional infrastructure to provision. The AWS Chatbot enables teams to use messaging program chat rooms to monitor and respond to operational events in their AWS Cloud. Create Amazon EventBridge Rule with Event Pattern and Target.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Cybersecurity has always been a top concern for local IT officials, but recent events have made it an even greater priority for city and county governments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tournament structure Through four tournaments and a live finals event, red teams will test model developer teams’ AI models to uncover vulnerabilities and improve their security. Red teams will be ranked on their success in forcing models to breach their policies through automated conversational red-teaming.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Attendees pack the room during the keynote at the AWS Learning Days event in Denver earlier this month. If you’re encountering any of these obstacles, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a tailored event that can help accelerate your cloud journey. There could be an upcoming event near you. Collaborate.

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