AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap? To discuss this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently hosted a webinar, Rethink how to hire and retain top performing talent , which assembled a panel of government officials and workforce planning experts. I think there’s two aspects to [digital equity].

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

This skills gap is even wider in the public sector, where 60 percent of IT professionals reported in a 2024 Salesforce survey that their biggest challenge in implementing AI solutions is lack of knowledge. Building on the programs success, AWS will bring AWS Learning Days to new cities in 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Welcome to the frontier of public sector innovation, where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword but a tool for transformative change. As citizens’ expectations evolve and the need for rapid, accurate information becomes more pronounced, state and local governments seek smarter ways to keep pace.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

For stakeholders in the public sector, the conference offered a whole host of important announcements, compelling themes, and inspiring customer stories. In this post, we highlight the key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024 for government agencies.

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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 10, 2023

Deployment requires limited disruptions, and minimal manpower to implement. Initially Wi-Fiber’s deployments focused on public safety solutions, such as license plate recognition (LPR). The overarching solution offered tangible results within the community, with thousands of traffic and safety incidents identified since implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In addition to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, public sector customers are now also deploying CJIS workloads in AWS US Commercial Regions, while meeting the data residency requirements of the CJIS Security Policy. Customers maintain complete ownership and control over their sensitive CJIS data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The awards champion practitioners, teams, and leaders who transform people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves. This diversity is apparent in the awardees who represent a broad array of sectors from healthcare to public service to education to agriculture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Rekor is a global artificial intelligence (AI) technology company and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Partner with a mission to provide insights that build safer, smarter, and more efficient cities worldwide through intelligent infrastructure. After much research, PIDC employed Rekor Systems, Inc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Overall, the use of digital twins in public sector operations can streamline process efficiencies, reduce operational costs, and improve service delivery to citizens. By using AWS IoT Core and Amazon S3, government agencies can store and analyze large amounts of data to make informed decisions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

This is a guest post by Kevin Mills, vice president of government partnerships at Coursera. Public sector agencies today require digital skills to deliver the functions citizens expect, and the innovations necessary to speed up processes and address gaps and inequity. Who will own the program and its implementation, and why?” “How

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Global Skills Report draws data from 100 million learners in more than 100 countries who have used Coursera , a global online learning platform, to develop a new skill during the past year—with the goal of providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and campuses looking to understand the skill needs of their organization.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google Public Sector is committed to helping advance the missions of education and government agencies through cloud technology in a secure and responsible way. Google Public Sector is investing in partner solution enablement to better serve public sector customers together.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Civix , a government technology (GovTech) company, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide software and services that support multiple public sector use cases, including election management, grants management, and more. Learn more about AWS for GovTech.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To make hearings visible to the public, even when in-person attendance is limited, state and local governments are beginning to mandate many court proceedings be live streamed, often with a very short window to do so. Read more about AWS for state and local government: Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS), The Total Economic Impact of Data Integration for the Public Sector analyzes the benefits, costs, and best practices associated with data integration. The study examines the return-on-investment public sector organizations may realize from data integration initiatives. “At

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

AI is positively transforming government operations and being used to support mission outcomes across a wide range of services, from improving patient care, enhancing learning and education, improving public safety, streamlining citizen services, and so much more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What do Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers need to know about the State Risk and Authorization Management Program ( StateRAMP) and how can you use AWS to help meeting StateRAMP requirements? StateRAMP assumes that state and local government data will likely be at the Moderate impact level.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The university will work with AWS to implement enhanced high performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and more, to accelerate its research capabilities and provide a new platform for innovation. George Mason University is Virginia’s largest public research university. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector Team to learn more.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

And it’s what’s led to my joining Google Public Sector shortly after it was formed in July of 2022. Google Public Sector is bringing the Google magic – evolving cloud and AI technologies, security, and scale – to the mission of the government to transform the way citizens experience public services and the way agencies operate.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. Health services personnel were able to view toxicology reports to identify the root cause of fatal overdoses and implement mitigation strategies. In Virginia, this data sharing was instituted by Carlos Rivero.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Leaders across higher education can use this tool to develop a shared understanding of the strategic and tactical considerations necessary to ensure that generative AI is implemented safely and securely at their institutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Today, as governments and city leaders look to shape cities of the future, they are actively looking to meet citizen needs for smarter and more innovative urban services. However, city governments and developers have not had a platform to explore partners and solutions that have been validated and implemented with demonstrable success.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Governments can use CGIT to retain the integrity of critical datasets, back up applications, and transfer services to run in the cloud, reducing the risk of compromise and enabling continuity of government. CGIT gives public sector bodies the ability to leverage globally distributed IT infrastructure to underpin their continuity plans.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

AWS is vigilant about security,” said Tami Fillyaw, AWS finance and administration leader for state and local government. Fillyaw adds that AWS is architected for government security requirements, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, NIST 800-171, and IRS 1075.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While Amazon Rekognition Image recognition service models are helpful for quick, wide use case classification implementations, generating object-specific models for bespoke use cases may increase the confidence in specific object detection. Example training data with Amazon Rekognition Custom object label as wildfire “smoke.”

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 24, 2023

Public sector organizations are facing a generational shift in their workforce. On one hand, they are experiencing the impact of the “silver tsunami”, the mass retirement of baby boomers who have been the backbone of public service for decades. Teams-Tip-Sheet-Brochure-A5.pdf

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. The Connecticut Department of Labor achieved a 60 percent reduction in repeat calls after implementing IVR scheduled callbacks.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

Across the public sector, boosting agility has been a priority in digital transformation and modernization strategy. Digital transformation and modernization activities were fast-tracked across the public sector to allow government agencies to operate at full capacity under unusual circumstances.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL can help public sector customers focus on their data and provide ways to explore the data in their APIs. GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. The first way is using AWS AppSync , a fully-managed serverless GraphQL API service.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has collaborated with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to tailor advice on how UK public sector customers can use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to help meet the NCSC’s guidance on “ using cloud services securely.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Digital government and services Digital government and modernized service delivery remain the second highest priority for state technology leaders in the 2023 report. Citizens expect to engage with their local government in the same fast, digital manner that they communicate in their daily lives.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2025

Yet, the public sector is still working through some significant growing pains adapting Data & AI strategies and infrastructure to improve and accelerate public services. This platform should be user-friendly with robust search capabilities, clear access routes, and strong governance protocols.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2023

For additional information on how to get started with the solution, please reference the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS – Implementation Guide. Get started with the AWS Landing Zone Accelerator for Education To get started, follow the process outlined in the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS – Implementation Guide.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA. Once you have formed the team delivering your cloud foundation, you can use the following guidance to help implement the solution.

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