AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

This document-heavy workflow, often reliant on manual processing, can result in delays, errors, and increased operational inefficiencies, causing frustration among both employees and stakeholders. This increases the risk of data breaches and puts agencies in jeopardy of violating strict compliance regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Central to the event were the themes of generative AI, sustainability, security, and—importantly for Europe—digital sovereignty. AWS enables government agencies and regulated industries to experiment and innovate in a secure, compliant manner.

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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. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution AWS built the LZA solution to significantly reduce the time it takes for customers to set-up a landing zone designed to align with compliance goals in highly regulated industries. The AWS Shared Responsibility Model including landing zone responsibilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The UBC CIC adopted AWS Control Tower to regulate access to AWS accounts based on permission levels and employed Organizations for account oversight. The security OU secures operations with centralized audit and log archive accounts. Following, the Lambda function generates the CreateManagedAccount lifecycle event.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

State and local government (SLG) agencies now have procurement questions to ask and decisions to make to maximize governance and security, simplify vendor management, and accelerate the overall process within a heavily regulated procurement environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. You also need to adhere to your specific regulations’ requirements. The requirements are highly dynamic, constantly evolving, and they vary across countries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is better to use a central log aggregation point because this reduces the operational burden by limiting the number of roles and policies needed to deliver logging data. Cloud native: Amazon S3 pull An agency can allow the CLAW to pull logs from their S3 bucket when they want to limit their operational burden.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

With vulnerabilities and breaches that allow messaging apps to be monitored or compromised, even purportedly secure consumer messaging platforms have reported events of suspected penetration by foreign entities, extremist groups, and malicious actors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

This post will explain how healthcare authorities can leverage this wealth of data to enhance their decision-making processes within business operations by using AWS. Disaster recovery – The AWS Cloud offers robust disaster recovery options, ensuring that patient data is protected and can be quickly restored in case of unforeseen events.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. The Report notes, by contrast, that the regulations that apply to banks are designed to do just that.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This can be seen more recently after events like the 2021 Surfside, Fla., The fire in London spurred renewed scrutiny of fire safety regulations globally following a report that showed there was a drive by both major political parties to free businesses from the burden of safety regulations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Prior to migrating the ILS to AWS, fully operationalizing the system after planned upgrades or unanticipated events could take up to twelve minutes. Use Migration Evaluator in protected or regulated environments by anonymizing sensitive network data. How Rockdale County improved operations and security with the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

The new emergency amendment requires that impacted TSA-regulated entities develop an approved implementation plan that describes measures they are taking to improve their cybersecurity resilience and prevent disruption and degradation to their infrastructure. It automates security tools that have built-in governance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Going into the event, a few of the key themes we’re focused on include resilience, digital trust, government continuity, digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity. Organizations are able to build solutions on the cloud that simply aren’t possible to build on legacy systems, such as generative AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Civix built the Ethics API in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, which is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads and address the most stringent US government security and compliance requirements. Plus, Civix worked with AWS to design the Ethics API with AWS serverless technologies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 30, 2024

Efficient code review processes are vital across all customer segments, both commercial and public sector, where strict regulations, data security, and service excellence are paramount. Streamlined code reviews maintain software quality, mitigate security risks, and enhance operational efficiency.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 7, 2023

The Australian government’s consultative approach to AI regulation includes an eight-week review process involving the release of two papers. The first paper examines generative AI’s opportunities and risks, while the second paper studies AI regulation efforts in other nations, such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Discover how the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is exploring AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to enhance operational efficiency, improve response times, safeguard frontline personnel, and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The keynote set the tone for the two-day event that brought together the public sector cloud community. AWS Snowblade meets US Military Ruggedization Standards, enabling defense customers to run their operations and manage demanding workloads in edge locations that can be subject to extreme operating conditions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A data-driven approach can help public sector agencies react quickly to unforeseen events, improve decision making, and provide the public with accurate information for their activities and well-being. As a result, everyone gets faster access to relevant data, while operational bottlenecks and strain on any one team is reduced.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This exclusive in-person event is your chance to learn how AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC can address the unique challenges of public sector missions. What You'll Gain from the Event: In-Depth, Actionable Learning: Sessions will provide detailed, step-by-step guides on how to implement Copilot GCC within your agency's existing workflows.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty vision that included three distinct pillars: data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty. GDC Hosted includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete managed cloud.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Regulators bare their teeth with substantial fines. And in recent years, regulators including the ICO and the DPC of Ireland have issued multi-million-pound (or euro) fines. These effects include: • Increased costs of notifying customers in the event of a data breach or other compromise of confidentiality. (23%

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Use Case 2: Event-driven architecture between AWS GovCloud (US) and standard AWS In this use case, a compute service such as AWS Lambda or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service ( Amazon EKS ) deployed in the standard AWS account processes the messages arriving to an event-driven service such as Amazon SQS or Amazon EventBridge.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

The solution we will explore in this post addresses three critical needs: compliance with accessibility regulations, improved service delivery to visually impaired citizens, and efficient use of agency resources. An AWS Lambda function, triggered by S3 event notifications, processes document metadata using standard PDF processing libraries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In June 2024, two cloud engineers from the Digital Agency, Kazuma Takeda and Shinichi Nishihata, shared their process and learnings at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit Japan , the largest AWS learning event in the country. For those who were unable to attend or watch virtually, this post summarizes their presentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Flexibility – With microservices, changes and updates can be made to individual components without affecting the entire system, making it easier to adapt the system to new laws, regulations, or business requirements. Reliability – If one microservice fails, it does not bring down the entire system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A US government agency elected to move its Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) system from a virtualized, on-premise environment to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The integrated Splunk software on AWS is used 24/7 by hundreds of end users for data analysis, troubleshooting, compliance, and daily operations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Recently, AWS Canada and Deloitte hosted an in-person event, The Cloud Audit Academy – Federal and DoD Workloads (FDW).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

s geospatial big data analyses provide detailed diagnoses of each rural property’s environmental compliance in relation to Brazil’s Forest Code , the applicable Brazilian regulation governing conservation of the rain forest. SeloVerde 2.1’s The vision behind SeloVerde and CAR 2.0 [the This is inclusive of solutions, such as SeloVerde 2.1,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The deployment and results SOMA is a leading technology partner providing critical response and operating software solutions for law enforcement, first responder, and government agencies. AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data, regulated workloads, and address the most stringent U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. At an event yesterday, I asked and they estimated that probably 10% or less of glass is recycled in the area.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Watch Getting Started with Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns : With Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns, SMAs can proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email to quickly serve their members and improve agent productivity, while supporting compliance with local regulations. Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the solution: Figure 1.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

The suggested applications of Microsoft solutions do not guarantee compliance with any regulation nor prevention of an attack or compromise. Conversely, those same users can lose access based upon suspicious behavior like clearing event logs or disabling antimalware capabilities. Monitor(ing) the use of system accounts.”

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 3, 2022

Cloud Logging and external log data is in scope for many regulations, which is why Cloud Logging is now part of Assured Workloads. In parenthesis, we’ve included example control mapping to capabilities: Event Logging (AU-2) - A wide variety of events are captured. Learn about how to set up access approvals here.

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