AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In this blog post, learn two options for how to manage network security with third-party firewall appliances. In the first method, learn about next generation firewall (NGFW) solutions available to deploy via AWS Firewall Manager as a managed solution. Third-party firewalls can help address these needs. Learn more about NGFWs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Building modern applications with containers Containers are lightweight, versatile, and portable units that are revolutionizing the way modern applications are built, deployed, and managed. Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The group emphasized the importance of a multi-stakeholder approach to developing and implementing governance strategies to achieve shared objectives. Matthew Graviss, Chief Innovation and AI Officer at the Department of State, discussed how the Department is implementing AI into “every aspect of diplomacy.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

As demand and usage grew, ASTERRA faced limitations when needing to process and manage increasingly large volumes of data efficiently and to provide timely and dependable results to their customers. By relying on managed services, ASTERRA can reduce the operational overhead and focus on their innovation efforts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 15, 2024

While helping customers, agents typically switch between numerous applications, such as their contact center platform, CRM, ticketing, and knowledge management systems. Peraton, an AWS Premier Partner , has worked with multiple government agencies to improve both customer and agent experiences using Amazon Connect.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To support the swift exchange of critical health information across public health laboratories, governments, and organizations, APHL teamed up with Ruvos, a consulting firm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner that specializes in health informatics and information technology, to create a secure messaging platform on AWS.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 25, 2023

With the help of APIs, agencies can bring application-based information together to support their objectives. government agencies are now encouraged to adopt a Zero Trust security architecture to detect and defend against cyber attacks. API protection is a core principle to implement Zero Trust architecture.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2025

Unlike other providers that offer dedicated Gov Clouds, Workspace delivers a secure and reliable cloud infrastructure for all customers, ensuring that government agencies receive the same benefits, capacity, and features at the same pace as commercial customers while supporting compliance requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the government sector , digital twins can be particularly useful in optimizing the performance of essential infrastructure, such as transportation networks, power grids, and water systems. Besides traffic management, digital twins can also be used in other areas of government operations, such as asset management and emergency response.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All modern organizations, including state and local government agencies, have data platforms to house, transfer, modify and manage their digital information. Implementing a modern data platform — one that is cloud-based, sustainable, flexible and scalable — can improve operational efficiency and resilience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Cloud computing is pivotal to allow the federal government to gain operational efficiencies and drive innovation securely and cost efficiently. Numerous US government agencies operate missions outside of the United States. This post delves into the details of these solutions and their potential benefits for federal agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In the intricate web of government agencies, the smooth exchange of data is paramount to provide citizens seamless access to digital services. Multiple agencies need to manage data sensitivity and confidentiality, which, if leaked or stolen, can be detrimental to both the citizen and the reputation of the government.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2025

Assembling a central DAP empowerment team: A dedicated team responsible for building, managing, and promoting the data access platform. Manage relationships with a set of trusted partners who can assist with the full scope of data implementation. Coordinates necessary training and upskilling to modern technologies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Public sector organizations – such as government agencies and schools – are not exempt from these statistics. Considering the highly sensitive nature of organizational cybersecurity data, security and trust were heavily prioritized in My eCISO’s design and implementation. million , and experts predict the threat to grow.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

As Australia moves forward with its National framework for the assurance of artificial intelligence in government , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping our customers implement AI solutions that align with Australia’s AI Ethics Principles.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

CDW expanded the digital velocity services it offers state and local government agencies with its acquisition Tuesday of Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud solutions provider.

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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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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 27, 2025

In an effort to improve efficiency while addressing challenges like workforce adaption and data privacy, Georgias state and local agencies are rapidly integrating AI and GenAI into their IT modernization efforts. Here we explore the AI challenges state and local agencies face and six best practices to guide government AI adoption strategies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. This training job will execute on a separate EC2 instance managed by SageMaker.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. A basic Connect implementation addressed New Mexico’s immediate COVID pain points, but the HSD team didn’t stop with the basics. It was awesome.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The cloud-based encryption key management language was also updated. The recent update adds that “…through management and control of encryption keys, all service offerings may be implemented in an agency-controlled manner where the cloud service provider has no ability to access unencrypted CJI.” [ Page G-22.].

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. Today, many agencies are entangled in legacy systems that resist integration with modern AI solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

In an attempt to close these gaps, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently enabled states to extend Medicaid coverage to eligible incarcerated individuals, with hopes of ensuring continuity of care upon release, reducing the risk of relapse, and encouraging better health management.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 22, 2025

Whether at the federal, state or local level, public sector organizations face unique challenges, including navigating changing political environments and priorities , managing limited resources and addressing diverse stakeholder needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1980s and 1990s, a lack of appropriate IT solutions meant they developed bespoke software and systems on mainframe platforms to manage their core business. These systems also became integral to managing aspects such as business processes, security protocols, and legislative changes, often without comprehensive documentation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers ( NASCIO ) recently released the 2023 report of the top 10 priorities of state chief information officers (CIOs) for strategies, management processes, and solutions. Many governments may see cost as a barrier to modernizing legacy infrastructure.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Center for Community Progress is exploring an emerging trend where land banks and land conservancies partner to implement vacant land stewardship. A land bank is a public entity with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Whether filing taxes, applying for student financial aid, seeking healthcare coverage, or receiving disaster support, customers are increasingly using internet-based web applications as the primary method of interaction with the federal government. Reference architecture for implementing a modern application on AWS GovCloud (US).

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GovLoop

JANUARY 17, 2024

Digital transformation is a driving force for government agencies, with cloud technology playing a pivotal role. Recognizing its significance, the highest levels of government are actively embracing Zero Trust. However, the focus isn’t solely on adopting modern IT; it’s equally about safeguarding it.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The agency also uses the model to track and report on the outcomes of those investments. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office. DHS then began implementing the same approach at other components.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. This solution was validated in us-gov-west-1 Region. Start Docker.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Yaara Tam, head of multinational organizations, and Barbara Baeyens, head of Benelux, announced the launch of new AWS learning plans for civil servants , specifically designed for European Union (EU) government agencies to help government employees build cloud skills and accelerate digital transformation.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google Public Sector and Carahsoft are launching an Authority to Operate (ATO) accelerator to support independent software vendors (ISVs) in their journey to achieve compliance authorizations, such as FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, and StateRAMP programs, to serve government agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tax agencies can use AI and ML to support the sheer size and scale of data they manage and to access and analyze all types of data with ease, including voice, video, and streaming data. Getting started in AI and ML for government agencies. Develop AI implementation guidelines that include transparency of algorithms used.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon using a single API. For this solution, we cover the technical implementation using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

DPI is a country’s digital backbone, rapidly enabling modern and responsive government, increasing inclusion and economic participation, and stimulating innovation across all sectors. Consider a government agency that urgently needs to launch a new digital service.

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