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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Implement constraints and quotas for each consumer account to prevent a single consumer from monopolizing available capacity. Implement usage-based billing at the consumer account level. The technical implementation of this prototype operates across multiple AWS accounts. Owner account owns the Outpost.

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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. The goal is to discover innovative ways for LLM creators to mitigate risks and implement effective safety measures.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Implementing checkpointing mechanisms is also critical to success to allow workloads to resume from their last known good state, whether on new Spot Instances or by failing over to On-Demand Instances as needed. Organizations should implement proper job tracking and task queue management to confirm that failed tasks are properly rescheduled.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Communication channel availability AWS IoT Core implements MQTT with Quality of Service (QoS) levels (0 = best effort, 1 = guaranteed delivery) to provide reliable message delivery even during network disruptions. IoT Events provides a simulator for testing trigger logic before deployment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

Solution overview To address these challenges, DC-MPD collaborated with AWS to design and implement a system that focused on enhancing their existing extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline. The data processing workflow leverages several AWS services to manage and process data based on specific conditions and events.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Generative AI Innovation Center expertise : Ideate, identify, and implement generative AI solutions securely with guidance from the Generative AI Innovation Center. Networking and free builder sessions : Access to registration for no-cost AWS Summit events 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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Across thousands of customers, we’ve identified a common sequence of events we call the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Generative AI (AWS CAF-AI). Recent events in the financial markets have placed a higher expectation on AnyOrganization to achieve more with fewer resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Deployment requires limited disruptions, and minimal manpower to implement. The National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame induction and associated events, hosted in Canton, can effectively double or triple the city’s population for a full week.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Demo by Greg Smith) Strategies for reducing call volume and improving self-service Over a dozen states have implemented Amazon Connect to support their unemployment contact centers. Event based outbound notifications can be personalized with real-time claim updates and timeframes to guide customers through the stages of a claim.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Blueprints also helps you implement the relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster. Event-driven architecture has gained significant traction in the public sector. Event-driven architecture facilitates efficient resource use by triggering actions only when specific events occur.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. A few minutes before the contact, the AWS Ground Station emits a prepass event. The prepass event triggers an AWS Lambda function.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The two-day event fostered a collaborative discussion between DIB leaders who shared the challenges facing the defense sector and AWS executives who offered mission-focused solutions. Department of Defense (DoD), and AWS joins forces with DIB partners to provide global infrastructure and cutting-edge technology to outpace our adversaries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By using the UK implementation guide for the LZA , UK customers can design environments that will help them to align to new NCSC guidance. The diagram shows the basic account structured created by the LZA best practices configuration, coupled with additions made in the implementation guidance to support the NCSC guidance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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. Each application implements its own authorization approach, leading to inconsistency and redundant effort.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They adopt best practices, utilizing AWS CloudFormation , Amazon DynamoDB , AWS Lambda , and Amazon CloudWatch Events to streamline the process. To implement the bulk account creation solution, the UBC CIC followed the best practices described in How to automate the creation of multiple accounts in AWS Control Tower.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Solution overview The main objective of this solution is to implement version control for workflow files and establish a robust security posture by scanning for vulnerabilities in containers pulled from public repositories. Release cycles for the monorepo were implemented using the V2 type pipeline.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 29, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resilience Hub provides you with a single place to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement. This also enables us to take proactive measures during disruption and early intervention to remediate any issues.

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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. GuardDuty analyzes event details from VPC flow logs, DNS logs, and AWS CloudTrail without any additional infrastructure to provision. EventBridge is a serverless event bus.

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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. It’s estimated that 55 percent of educational institutions will have implemented a SaaS cloud model by 2025. There could be an upcoming event near you. There may be select events that expand to other areas, such as healthcare.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The pandemic has caused states to rethink this model due to increased cyber events impacting SLGs, education organizations, and their critical infrastructure. Cyber events continue to heavily impact SLG and education institutions, compromising data and critical services to students and constituents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2025

Announcing Cloud Coach sessions for EU governments AWS Cloud Coach is a no-cost program of live learning showcase events that promote micro-learning opportunities through the lens of AWS Skill Builder.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This crucial work helps CDPH improve the efficiency of monitoring activities and the early detection of public health events through the collection of complete and timely lab result information on a statewide basis. CyncHealth’s expertise in managing these types of clinical data accelerated the implementation process.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Here are three key takeaways from the event: AI is revolutionizing public service delivery Our latest AI innovations are truly powering the next wave of transformation and mission impact across the public sector. A key takeaway from the event was the need to empower public sector workers with safe and secure AI tools.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this post, we will share how a large public transit agency in the United States (referred to as “Agency”) worked with AWS to create a proof-of-concept (POC) to analyze operator behavior and improve its visibility of sudden acceleration-based events. Refer to the documentation to implement this architectural pattern.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of their key goals was to gain greater visibility into the impact that road closures and construction have on mobility and learn how to improve mobility during significant projects and events. Some key examples of this include electric vehicle charge station placement, allocation of funds, and deployment of safety systems.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Our role allows us to attend industry events and speak with current customers to learn more about community engagement. When thoughtfully implemented, compensation can be a powerful tool for fostering deeper, more meaningful community involvement. In this case, predicting community engagement trends for 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

During these sessions, the team also identified several modernization opportunities, and the DnA team sized the level of effort required to implement them. AWS provided technical and planning support leading up to and during the event. Other initiatives include implementing event bus and decomposition of the monolith.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Data-driven decisions lead to more effective responses to unexpected events. Also, these systems are typically not built for exponential growth of event data like log files, click stream data, and machine-generated data from internet of things (IoT) devices. seismic events detection and classification, slippery roads, fog detection).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

During these events, governments need to protect and maintain core digital assets and records such as population and property registers, education records, and revenue and benefits systems at all times—for operational and integrity reasons. Level 2: Pre-planned migration.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five main considerations for public sector organisations looking to implement cybersecurity best practices. Implement an active threat and vulnerability management program. Stay current on cyber events disrupting different geographies, industries, and groups, and stay informed on the attacks most likely to impact your operation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The whitepaper draws on the extensive experience that AWS has working with governments and healthcare organizations worldwide, offering practical insights into implementing secure, cost-effective, and scalable health IT systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Improving mission performance with generative AI Simultaneously, Thorn has been investigating how they can implement generative AI to streamline internal operations so staff can be more effective and better serve their constituents. One particular focus area for Thorn’s infrastructure team has been internal customer support.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Forensics Orchestrator deploys a mechanism using AWS services to orchestrate and automate key digital forensics processes and activities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the event a potential security issue is detected. This enhancement was developed using Lambda functions to call on AWS APIs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Once you have formed the team delivering your cloud foundation, you can use the following guidance to help implement the solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Know and enable your organization Having a directory for your organization – as simple as a list of contacts – works better than chasing the owners of services and assets during an event. Enable members of your organization with the policies and tools to take ownership for implementing and launching your continuity plan.

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