AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

At the heart of DC-MPDs operations lies a well-established data pipeline that efficiently handles a vast array of information sourced from over 400 datasets derived from the Mark43 records management system. 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

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 22, 2023

With that in mind, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we strive to build and operate resilient services—in part, by learning from failures. The COE is designed to prevent the event that occurred in a given workload from occurring in that workload again. The AWS Internal Operational Readiness Review field within Custom lenses setup.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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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

MARCH 12, 2025

Identifying suitable workloads for Spot Instances When evaluating workloads for Spot Instance adoption, its critical that organizations carefully assess their scientific computing tasks based on mission criticality, time sensitivity, and operational characteristics.

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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

APRIL 15, 2025

Reliability risks Because Greengrass Core provides offline operation capability through local message queuing and storage, your IoT deployments benefit from being able to reliably function without continuous connectivity to the cloud or even when available bandwidth is low.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Citizens expect governments to continue to operate despite floods or heat waves endangering data centers, malicious actions taken against IT infrastructure, or power grid failures. This means they can focus on the operational aspects of maintaining key government services using the range of continuity options AWS provides.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Transit agencies also want to provide meaningful feedback to their operators by providing them with relevant context for their unsafe driving. The Agency responsible for public transportation in one of the largest cities in the US worked with AWS to track bus operators’ driving trends.

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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

MARCH 10, 2023

Wi-Fiber custom builds hardware, software, and networks, outfitting them with optical and internet of things (IoT) sensors that allow municipal entities to capture and visualize data to improve operational efficiency, deliver real-time outcomes, and promote enhanced community safety.

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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. Figure 1 builds on the standard Shared Responsibility Model, adding a middle tier for the landing zone and landing zone operations. What is a landing zone?

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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. This will help organisations think about the organisational change and operating model needed to be successful in the cloud.

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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. AI/ML: AI/ML technologies are revolutionizing defense operations through new capabilities for data analysis, decision-making, and autonomous systems.

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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. 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

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 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. In turn, these insights have directly benefited the Navy Yard in their planning and daily operations.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Given the external environment, government agencies in particular need reliable continuity plans in the event of an attack. In fact, two policy directives were recently issued to ensure that government entities can continue to operate. government agency is expected to have a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) in place.

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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 now hold an annual Dragons Den/Shark Tank -style event. We needed a new approach to how technology was delivered.

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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. 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. Create Amazon EventBridge Rule with Event Pattern and Target.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

Data-driven decisions lead to more effective responses to unexpected events. All of this increases the operational risk and the operational cost – and can make it difficult to analyze data holistically. SQL can help analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To minimize human errors and enforce policy compliance, the UBC CIC activated AWS security services such as AWS IAM Identity Center , AWS Security Hub , and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for threat detection, identity management, and operational permissions. AWS solution for bulk creation of UBC CIC accounts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Operational costs were reduced by $10.7 million from launch.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Companies across all industries face a multitude of challenges in their operations, many of which can be addressed through innovative uses of technology. By implementing use cases tailored to their specific needs, organizations can drive efficiencies, mitigate risks, and create competitive advantages.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Enable your organization to scale the planning efforts and push the vision and top-down goals towards the operational leaders. 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.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For example, when a citizen calls to report a crime to dispatch and provides verbal details, they are already two or three minutes behind the actual events. Having an officer on every corner is neither feasible nor particularly desirable, but cameras that can detect and alert as events happen allow police to deploy resources more effectively.

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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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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

AI is positively transforming government operations and being used to support mission outcomes across a wide range of services, from improving patient care, enhancing learning and education, improving public safety, streamlining citizen services, and so much more. At Google Public Sector, were passionate about supporting your mission.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To assist in this, Microsoft and CISA will also be providing the Microsoft Expanded Cloud Log Implementation Playbook which will provide an in-depth look at each of the new log events and how they can be used to support hunting and incident response operations at your organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As government organizations transition to Amazon Web Services (AWS), they often seek to maintain operational continuity by using their existing on-premises firewall solutions. This post will explore best practices for implementing GWLB to facilitate centralized traffic inspection for both east-west and north-south traffic flows.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To better support its clients, Acentra Health implemented an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution using AWS services. Acentra Health leadership knew that cloud technology could provide an opportunity to streamline operations and innovate patient care, so they reached out to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Traceability is crucial to obtaining an Authorization to Operate (ATO), which authorizes the operation of an information system on behalf of a federal agency based on the implementation of Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards, cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF), and security controls.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In it, State officials said the department would take a mission-driven approach to implementing the strategy, focusing on key mission areas , such as global operations, cybersecurity and multilateralism. The change came shortly after State released its enterprise data strategy, titled “ Empowering Data-Informed Policy.”

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