State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

A security operations center, or SOC, can be the nerve center of a strong state and local cybersecurity effort. Why should you try to staff and manage your own SOC?” SOC teams are charged with detecting, preventing, investigating and responding to cyberthreats, ideally with round-the-clock monitoring of an organization’s network.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

The cybersecurity challenge in UK education Recent data from the UK government reveals the significant cybersecurity challenges facing UK educational institutions. To learn more, contact your AWS Account Manager or email edu-grant@amazon.co.uk. Together, we can build a more secure and resilient future for education in the UK.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has experienced a great deal of success in adopting a single identity and access management solution for its employees since committing to Microsoft Azure Active Directory in 2018, the state’s chief operations officer said Monday during the annual conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

In this post, we highlight the key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024 for government agencies. So if youre a government leader and you want to get up to speed on all the essential information and insights from AWS re:Invent 2024, weve compiled what youre looking for here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. It is important to note that operating in a given AWS U.S. Independent third-party attestation audits provide assurance that control activities are operating as intended. commercial regions.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The age of digital transformation is upon us, and hybrid cloud solutions are taking center stage in managing state and local government agency operations. But does a hybrid cloud really benefit state and local governments? Does it aid in sharing information and analyzing data as it claims to do?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The complexity of spacecraft operations has sky-rocketed with increased orbital activity and new satellite capabilities, like the ability to reconfigure capacity, power, and coverage on demand. Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, LLMs alone may fall short in providing timely and relevant insights, especially for agencies managing dynamic and time-sensitive operations. This foundation enables more responsive and efficient government services while reducing operational costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Today’s satellite constellation operators find that, as their constellations grow, the complexity of their MOC increases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies. Figure 1: LISA Model Management console with both Amazon ECS (e.g.,

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In North Dakota, CISO Michael Gregg is running a security operations center that benefits his state and local government agency partners in several ways. By manning a highly capable security operations center, Gregg relieves his North Dakota peers of that challenge. Through a deal with the North Dakota…

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

For state and local governments, the difference between weathering a crisis or succumbing to a cascading disaster lies in continuity of operations plans. The world can be dangerous and unpredictable. COOPs are decidedly not sexy. They stay quietly unheralded until an emergency, large or small, makes them essential.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ). Plus, AWS Config rules can now support proactive compliance.

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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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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

The reality is that government networks may have a lot of connected equipment that IT staff dont manage or care about, which can create headaches for security teams. Ideally, in such situations, the security team will tell IT that if an asset is on the network, it needs to be in a configuration management database.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CentralSquare is a government technology ( GovTech ) company and AWS Partner that provides mission-critical software to more than 8,000 local public service organizations across North America. CentralSquare’s CAD system helps 911 dispatchers quickly route first responders using real-time location data and other information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A multi-account strategy is important for Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers because it is the foundation of cloud governance and compliance. Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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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

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

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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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

State and local governments have the crucial responsibility of protecting essential utilities and citizen data from cyberattacks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Renzo Rodriguez, managing director of US Federal Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Les Call, director of the Department of Defense CIO Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, in a recent episode of Mission Innovation, powered by AWS , to explore the challenges and strategies of implementing zero trust within the DoD.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 15, 2024

From local school districts to large federal agencies, today’s citizens expect to connect with government services in secure and frictionless ways. While helping customers, agents typically switch between numerous applications, such as their contact center platform, CRM, ticketing, and knowledge management systems.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Work backward from your understanding of what AI enables you to do The AnyOrganization chief operations officer (COO) recently read an AWS blog post that addressed generative AI for the public sector. Are existing data management practices sufficient to fuel your AI/ML flywheel?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Data is a critical part of the new drug product life cycle management and journey. Data mesh to the rescue Data mesh is an architectural framework that enables organizations to redefine how they manage and utilize their data assets. By adopting a DaaP mindset, pharmaceutical companies can unlock a host of benefits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

At the heart of DC-MPDs operations lies a well-established data pipeline that efficiently handles a vast array of information sourced from over 400 datasets derived from the Mark43 records management system. The data processing workflow leverages several AWS services to manage and process data based on specific conditions and events.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 13, 2023

Oregon Data Center Services handles daily backups for roughly 4,000 state servers, a task made more manageable by a platform that allows its fellow agencies to do some of the work themselves, whether they’re operating applications on the DCS infrastructure or, eventually, in the cloud.

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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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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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Because of the urgent need for decarbonization and reducing climate change, local government fleet managers are facing several major trends. Many local governments across the country have set ambitious climate targets, recognizing the substantial contribution of their vehicle fleets to their overall carbon footprint.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In its list of State CIO Top 10 Priorities for 2023, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers cited cybersecurity and risk management as the top concern, while digital government and digital services ranked second. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Government customers, said Dave Levy, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare institutions have the opportunity to accelerate their move to the cloud, but first they need more clarity in how to manage healthcare data governance securely and in compliance with all regulations. Develop a risk management framework to support healthcare providers.

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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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