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

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

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

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. They adopt best practices, utilizing AWS CloudFormation , Amazon DynamoDB , AWS Lambda , and Amazon CloudWatch Events to streamline the process.

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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. Finally, it provides a notification mechanism that users and security teams can use to get notified of security events.

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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

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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CRA Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Episode 80: CRA Tips: CRA Services Hours, Events, or Instances? Both of those banks were FDIC regulated. I also talk about how to think about instances, how to ask regulators for guidance, and how to proceed if you want to make changes in the future. The post Episode 80: CRA Tips: CRA Services Hours, Events, or Instances?

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GovLoop

JANUARY 27, 2025

Well send you a recording after the event to watch, learn from, and share with your colleagues. Identifying Your Modernization Objectives Streamlining processes, updating old technology, keeping up with best practices, and meeting mandates and compliance regulations the drivers for modernization are plentiful.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

This increases the risk of data breaches and puts agencies in jeopardy of violating strict compliance regulations. When Amazon Textract has completed the text extraction process, a completion event is sent to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

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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

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. This down time is now under one-minute post-migration.

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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. The Lambda function initiates the Amazon Bedrock client, parses the input event, and initializes the GitHub octokit client.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

From the Amazon S3 console, select the bucket, go to Properties , navigate to Event Notifications , and create a notification for “All object create events”. While Amazon S3 event notifications are designed to be delivered at least once and in seconds, they can take a minute or longer.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

AWS provides healthcare organizations with regulatory and compliance support, thanks to its strong track record of compliance with relevant healthcare regulations, including certifications like the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) in Germany, the Hebergement de Données de Santé (HDS) in France, and HIPAA in the US.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

During the CSP go-live event, AWS supported the launch through AWS Countdown , which offers architecture and scaling guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Throughout the day’s sessions, explore ways to implement security best practices, improve governance, meet compliance standards, and utilize AWS services for sensitive and regulated workloads. Dive deep with AWS experts at the “ask an expert” bar.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 3, 2025

With founding support from Microsoft and Google.org , were expanding our Center into the nation’s hub for empowering public sector leaders as effective users and smart regulators of AI. For decades, the Partnership has served as a resource for public-service professionals who seek best practices for making government more effective.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

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. Organizations should also conduct their own risk assessments and audits to ensure full compliance with regulations.

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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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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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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. Security – responsible for monitoring and responding to security events generated within the platform.

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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. In just nine months, the Civix Ethics API was born.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Research suggests EHRs translate into better quality and outcomes of care: organisations that implemented EHRs had 30% higher adherence to clinical guidelines, a 54% reduction in medication errors, and a 36% reduction in adverse drug events. For patients, EHRs support more coordinated care and less risk of duplication.

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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. Controls can be either preventative or detective.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Texas state agencies are required to have an IRM who is responsible for making sure information resources are acquired appropriately and managed effectively in compliance with regulations and agency policies.

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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

JUNE 7, 2023

The keynote set the tone for the two-day event that brought together the public sector cloud community. Now, SimSpace Weaver is available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, US-East and US-West, allowing customers with sensitive data or regulated workloads in the cloud to meet U.S.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Depending on the industry, different regulations and protection policies may also need to be applied to protect CAD files. NIST 800-17, and NIST 800-53 regulations. Digitally Watermark  files to provide a visual reminder of the sensitivity level of files and add information about the user for tracking purposes in the event of a leak.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Underpinning your data transfer requirements are key components, including: Data classification : The class of data concerning the level of sensitivity, the risks it presents and the compliance regulations that protect it (for example, public, sensitive).

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Against the backdrop of the Africa Climate Summit and Africa Climate Week, Nairobi hosted the UN Environment Programme’s fourth annual International Clean Air Day for blue skies event with Nairobi City County Governor, Sakaja Johnson, on September 7th, 2023.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

Configurable operations : While the technology at the core of every GDC Hosted deployment is the same, the operating model can be configured to meet each customer’s unique specifications and regulations. Train ML models on sensitive economic datasets. I am proud to announce a unique partnership between Luxembourg and Belgium.

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