AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For example, a smart home water monitoring solution deployed in the city of Cape Town, South Africa , uses AWS IoT , analytics, and visualization services to help homeowners understand their water usage patterns, detect leaks, and contribute to more sustainable water management practices.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As talent shortages grow, job vacancies are commonplace across governmental agencies. Add the challenge of retaining existing talent and government agencies face a perfect storm. Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount.

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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. Although authentication is often managed through external identity providers (IdPs) such as Amazon Cognito , authorization logic is usually implemented within the application code.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Government agencies handle vast volumes of bureaucratic documents daily, ranging from tax forms to medical records. 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.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The complexity of scaling teams, managing infrastructure, and ensuring consistent development environments can quickly become overwhelming. Additionally, they streamline onboarding processes, ensuring new developers have access to secure, standardized environments right from the start, further enhancing security and operational efficiency.

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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

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

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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GovLoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Digital Identity Ecosystems: Government agencies could play a vital role in the development of systems for managing the use of digital identities across the public and private sectors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Modular Data Center (MDC) is a service that enables rapid deployment of AWS managed data centers for running location- or latency-sensitive applications in locations with limited infrastructure. Start by completing and submitting the contact form on the AWS MDC page in the AWS Management Console (Figure 2).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The South Korea-based space startup also works to reduce the cost and complexity of space operations by providing a single end-to-end solution for satellite operation and satellite data analytics. Nara Space Earthpaper uses AWS services for data collection, data processing, data management, image processing, and web hosting.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Moving sensitive US government data to the cloud requires the meticulous application of a proven migration methodology, skilled resources, a robust solution, and a mature logistics model. This was the first time the government agency and Booz Allen used MAP. AWS MAP accelerates migration timetable and reduces cost.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Constituents, when interacting with government agencies, expect seamless, digital-first experiences. The challenge is not to simply digitize forms but to modernize and streamline how government works. Outdated, manual processes result in wasted time and money, fragmented data and cumbersome security and compliance efforts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

As government agencies seek to modernize their operations and deliver enhanced services to citizens, the role of small businesses becomes increasingly pivotal. The solution involved using eVai in conjunction with AWS Cloud services for secure data storage and management.

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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

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

JANUARY 10, 2025

It enables government agencies, educational institutions, and healthcare providers to modernize their IT infrastructure while adhering to strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. The built-in sharing capabilities provide a solid foundation for multi-account resource management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Agencies use asset management software and services to monitor, maintain, and control these types of operational assets and equipment. Asset management software can help agencies optimize the quality and utilization of assets throughout their lifecycle, increase productive uptime, and reduce operational costs.

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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. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions are operated exclusively by US citizens who work within US territory. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Talent management is a highly effective, strategic approach to organizational culture. Attracting and retaining qualified employees while planning for the continuity of operations amidst an ever-changing environment in the wake of COVID-19 is not an easy task, especially for city administrations across the country.

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 23, 2025

Over the past decade, the role of IT in government operations has evolved significantly and public sector IT distribution has adapted to meet these new demands and complexities. In the latest episode of the Government Technology Insider Podcast , host Lucas Hunsicker sat down with former public sector CEO, Art Richer.

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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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FedTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

Cyberattacks against government agencies have risen significantly since the introduction of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Such attacks increased 95 percent in the second half of 2022 compared with the same time period in 2021, according to CloudSEK.

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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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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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Google Public Sector

APRIL 7, 2023

Government organizations around the world such as Hawaii's Department of Human Services and Italy's Veneto Region use APIs to modernize their legacy systems, create interoperability between departments and municipalities, and strengthen their own security posture. However, this security shouldn’t come at the cost of inaccessibility.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

Today, these projects involve more emerging technology than ever, and its importance continues to grow as the public expects a high level of service delivery from government agencies. For government leaders embarking on a modernization journey, here are three keys to navigating the process with clarity and confidence.

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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 25, 2025

Interconnected challenges demanding integrated solutions Cyber-resilience gaps in legacy systems pose significant risks to government operations. The National Audit Office reports 58 critical government IT systems with substantial cyber-resilience vulnerabilities, many built on outdated infrastructure that attracts cybercriminals.

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GovLoop

JUNE 13, 2023

Let’s say an agency’s security operations center wants to use analytics to improve its ability to detect and respond to threats throughout its environment. Legacy data management solutions simply were not designed with that kind of scenario in mind, leaving data specialists stuck with laborious manual processes.

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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. Cloud solutions can offer major environmental benefits with specialised data centres.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. billion) of its current IT spending. This impacts the priority status of legacy IT remediation efforts.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Across the federal government, agencies are exploring how they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to solve long-standing problems and to discover innovative ways to manage operations and deliver services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Successful digital transformation depends on being able to work across silos, which are a common feature of central and regional government agencies. Many of the hardest-to-solve societal challenges, such as climate mitigation and social service delivery, require cross-agency, composable solutions to have their intended impact.

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 11, 2024

Despite these benefits, many state and local government agencies are unable to reap the benefits of the data in their possession due to data proliferation , a term referring to both the massive amounts of data that governments generate and the usability problems resulting from ineffective storage and management in multiple disconnected systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Building secure IT systems Traceability is an important component in ensuring the security of systems and is often required by many government organizations. For example, there is a requirement to deploy a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) server to host a security information and event management (SIEM) suite of applications.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 9, 2024

This authorization underscores Google Public Sector's commitment to empowering government agencies with secure, cutting-edge technology. Virtual Machine Manager and Google Kubernetes Engine: Government customers can provision and deploy virtual machines (VMs) and manage VMs through their life cycles.

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