AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This flagship AWS event unites global visionaries to explore the latest technologies redefining what’s possible for their missions. Download the AWS Events app to either favorite or register for the sessions you’re interested in. Don’t miss the augmented reality demo Operation Global Guardian. Cultivate new connections.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

This no-cost, in-person event helps nonprofits rethink whats possible for their missions with cloud technology. Whether youre a nonprofit leader in business, technology, or operations, youll gain actionable insights, connect with peers, and explore how the latest AWS innovations can empower your mission.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

In this post, we will explore how various Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions can be used to create a secure, retrieval-augmented, and cost-effective biomedical chatbot designed to facilitate biocuration. This event is triggered by an Amazon EventBridge rule, a serverless event bus that allows you to react to changes in your AWS resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Using AWS-managed and serverless services helps reduce the time to service delivery, so agencies can spend more time focusing on improving the quality and security of the application. Under the serverless model, many organizations adopt event-driven architecture (EDA) to create highly scalable and fault-tolerant applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. Security is also a critical consideration, as nonprofits often handle sensitive donor and beneficiary information. The content in Amazon S3 is also encrypted.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to join senior decision-makers and thought leaders from around the world at the 60th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from February 16-18. MSC is a leading global forum for discussing the most pressing international security challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. This event provides an opportunity for Accelerator participants to showcase their cloud-powered solutions to justice and public safety agency leaders.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted. Not just for our agency, but for the people that we serve.”.

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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. Transportation agencies need to manage access to critical infrastructure, operations data, and emergency response systems. Actions What operations are governed?

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Services such as real estate land title searches, emergency services, and more need to be operational in times of need. Taking the time to plan for incidents ahead of time saves crucial operational time for teams during an incident. Turn on Security Hub. 2) Setup AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 27, 2023

What are the top 3 trends that will trigger organizations to adopt a critical event management plan in 2023? According to Gartner, the consequences to IT operations or supply chains run high at around $540,000 per hour. Time is our worst enemy when a critical event unfolds. million to $4.2

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

For public safety agencies, secure collaboration and situational awareness are essential to preparedness and response. First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This post discusses the management of AWS in higher education institutions, emphasizing governance to securely foster innovation without compromising security and detailing policies and responsibilities for managing AWS accounts across projects and research. They also have a sandbox for testing without impacting the project.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

The OSK persistent monitoring service helps commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations; environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG); and security goals. OSK has also secured agreements to support the US Government through its partnerships with In-Q-Tel, the Air Force, and the Space Force.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In this post, we’ll explore how Thorn used Amazon Web Services (AWS) in conjunction with generative artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize their internal customer support for organization-wide IT, security, and engineering. Thorn is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. Historically, the SA&A process takes up to 18 months.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The organizations responsible for those missions need technologies and solutions that solve challenges rapidly and securely. Our customers and partners are focusing on advancing the way they deliver critical services, improve the customer experience, build resilience into how they operate, and respond to disruptive events.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a suite of cloud-based solutions that can help address these challenges and streamline ELT operations. With event-driven architectures, AWS Batch processing jobs are triggered by arriving data, and in turn feed output to other services or subsequent jobs that optimize for downstream tasks.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the report, CISOs confirmed they were outsourcing security operations. Of CISOs surveyed, 52 percent said they outsourced their security operations centers. Others chose to outsource only specific functions, such as security information and event management, risk assessments, incident response, and more.

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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. At the state and federal levels, programs are funded to support these efforts.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control Microsoft Copilot for Security in Microsoft’s US Gov cloud offerings (Microsoft 365 GCC/GCC High and Azure Government) is currently unavailable and does not have an ETA for availability. Future updates will be published to the public roadmap here.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the public sector, agencies (or companies) are typically managed centrally by the State, City, or County’s central IT team: Figure 1 The operations or central IT team manages the tenant on behalf of the hosted agencies. For example, only central IT typically has access to the Microsoft Purview portal.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

overlays to help agencies securely apply TIC 3.0 In this post, we show you how you can push or pull your security telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse (CLAW) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or third-party solutions. requirements to AWS deployments.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ensuring public safety at large-scale events, whether concerts, sports games, or community gatherings, comes with unique challenges. With the responsibility of protecting attendees, crowd control, and maintaining security, procurement teams play a critical role in making sure the staff has everything they need to execute the event.

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The next generation of AI models In October 2024 at our Gemini at Work event, we showcased transformative generative AI use cases from our customers across industries and shared a number of announcements. Google Cloud provides the most extensive data center footprint for FedRAMP High workloads of any cloud service provider, with nine U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Data-driven decisions lead to more effective responses to unexpected events. These silos can require different platforms, different management, different security, and different authorization approaches. All of this increases the operational risk and the operational cost – and can make it difficult to analyze data holistically.

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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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