AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CentralSquare’s CAD service keeps first responders connected during emergencies When emergencies happen, quick access to critical information is paramount. CentralSquare’s cloud-based CAD and RMS services, powered by AWS, help dispatchers and responders quickly access and share real-time information during high-pressure situations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

Information on hosting workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) is available on this webpage. 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. You can find guidance on making this choice in this article.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When you spread technology over 90 different agencies with 90 different business needs, it creates a bunch of information silos that keep you from operating efficiently. You don’t get the information you need to make decisions, and your costs increase on the systems you’re supporting.

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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. Consequently, these organizations must implement systems with fine-grained access controls to make sure that only authorized individuals can view the data they are permitted to access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

Embracing cutting-edge technology, DC-MPD has integrated evidence analysis techniques with state-of-the-art information technology to advance crime-mapping, real-time crime statistics dashboards, and summary statistics for a holistic view of crime dynamics. Data processing workflow architecture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

When reviewing these articles, scientists must extract information regarding genetic-disease-drug associations to inform variant classification. In recent years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated promising results in information extraction and text summarization.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In terms of their key drivers for implementing AI, 62% of federal agencies surveyed identified strengthening cybersecurity as a top motivator, and 40% of federal agencies stated that protecting critical infrastructure is a key driver of their AI investments 1. said Kevin Cornish, Chief Information Officer, Covered California.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

AWS third-party audit attestation documents are used to determine inherited controls and what required controls may be remaining for customers to implement in their environment. The outcome of this step is a mapping that defines how each applicable compliance requirement is met by AWS operated controls and customer-operated ones.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Worst still, critical information, from course changes to school closure announcements, often failed to reach the colleges 140,000 credit and non-credit students in a timely manner. If a student had called before, their contact information automatically populated, allowing agents to focus entirely on addressing the students needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

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. In this post, we highlight the key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024 for government agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

In this post, we discuss how organizations can effectively identify opportunities to use Spot Instances and Amazon Q Business , a generative AI powered assistant that can answer questions and provide summaries based on data and information in your enterprise systems, to develop an enhanced Spot Instance analysis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy update contains important cloud computing language that aligns with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) approach to building CJIS compliant solutions. The cloud-based encryption key management language was also updated.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The data deluge: Challenges of managing and analyzing information In the modern law enforcement landscape, the emergence of real-time crime centers has opened possibilities and presented significant challenges. Navigating the information flood. This ensures ease of maintenance and access to critical information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As these solutions are built, AWS’s innovative features and security controls can help customers comply with the latest Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy updates , and align with CJIS compliance not only in AWS GovCloud (US), but also in AWS (US) Commercial regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 7, 2024

By relying on managed services, ASTERRA can reduce the operational overhead and focus on their innovation efforts. ASTERRA EO Discover uses AWS to help empower organizations like water infrastructure companies, government agencies, and water utilities with actionable intelligence that enables informed decision-making. Get inspired.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Andrew Buss, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Innovation Management, and Innovation Manager Tara Woody offered their wisdom about how to implement innovations and keep momentum going. The innovations of today are the operations of tomorrow. It’s not an end-of-the week tack-on to regular duties; it is the duty.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Integrated chat assistants can also provide real-time claim information through the IVR without agent assistance. Demo by Greg Smith) Strategies for reducing call volume and improving self-service Over a dozen states have implemented Amazon Connect to support their unemployment contact centers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) organizations often have requirements to establish a secure, scalable, multi-account environment that implements the security baseline compliant with US federal government standards. This walkthrough assumes the customer has already implemented the C1 component. Federal and U.S. Solution overview.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime system for application programming interfaces (APIs) that prioritizes giving clients exactly the information they request and no more. GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. The ‘createMission’ operation for Admin users.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whether on land, in air, or at sea, having connectivity and access to information in the field is critical for the US Department of Defense (DoD). Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Sometimes, there is no single owner responsible for the end-to-end citizen experience, which results in a disconnect and makes it difficult to find information. In this post, we will explore how Amazon Connect , Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud contact center solution, delivers relevant information to agents through a unified experience.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It gives doctors rapid access to up-to-date health records and test results so that they have better information and more time for patient care. Doctors needed a standardized EMR system to access accurate patient information instantly. Bahmni, an open source electronic medical records (EMR) system is one that we have pioneered.

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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. Each dimension is explored in depth in our responsible use of machine learning guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

As customers move more data to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to take necessary precautions and measures to prevent sensitive information from unauthorized access or use. The LZA for Healthcare helps establish platform readiness with security, compliance, and operational capabilities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Besides traffic management, digital twins can also be used in other areas of government operations, such as asset management and emergency response. Overall, the use of digital twins in public sector operations can streamline process efficiencies, reduce operational costs, and improve service delivery to citizens.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Instead of each entity performing their own assessment, the state can leverage a single authorization to operate (ATO). The impact level is based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-60r1 , which outlines how to map information and information systems to various security categories.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

They know that while AI has the potential to be transformative for K12 schools, it must be implemented carefully. These are fundamental tools to guide school districts as they implement generative AI in their schools. With 60 percent of US students already using generative AI tools, school leaders are trying to get ahead of this trend.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) develops innovative solutions to address challenging digital engineering requirements for US government customers. This allows data from multiple digital thread domains to be visualized in parallel to illustrate how information is connected.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Many governments around the globe are racing to infuse technology into just about every aspect of city operations. However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success. The city of the future is “smart.” times to 6 billion.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2025

Gemini streamlines team communications by helping users summarize, draft, and find information in their emails, chats, and files. Better decision-making: Gemini can provide data-driven insights to support more informed and effective decision-making.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Improving mission performance with generative AI Simultaneously, Thorn has been investigating how they can implement generative AI to streamline internal operations so staff can be more effective and better serve their constituents. For more information about how AWS supports nonprofits, visit AWS for Nonprofits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

The AWS IMAGINE Grant may provide resources such as unrestricted funding, AWS Promotional Credit, and technical implementation support to help organizations accelerate their projects. Please closely review all information, such as the eligibility guidelines in the FAQ.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Proving regulatory compliance and providing information to supervisors and management for decision-making requires extensive manual processes to review observations and readings on plant equipment and storage; especially when operating around 6,000 miles of gas mains and providing natural gas to approximately 500,000 customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. The DHHS took an innovative approach to implement a solution rapidly. In this section, we explore how states can maintain visibility and oversight during rapid implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Nonprofits around the world use cloud technology to improve operational efficiencies, optimize costs, and advance their missions. Promotional credit enables organizations of all sizes to scale their operations, reduce costs, and deliver more impact on their mission and the communities they serve.

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