AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Different security controls can be implemented for different workloads and different SDLC environments. Compliance controls (such as FedRAMP or GDPR) can be implemented as required for different workloads or sets of workloads. Organizations is a management service that helps you centrally govern your multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

We have a shared responsibility model with the customer; AWS manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the services operate, while educational customers using AWS are responsible for building secure applications.

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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

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

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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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. These OUs help apply management controls like service control policies (SCPs).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

This architectural diagram shows the architecture for six accounts: the organization management account, accounts for security tooling, log archive, network, shared services, and application. The network account manages the gateway between the application and the broader internet. SLG customer. Security Insights for U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Organizations can share Outposts and their associated resources across multiple AWS accounts in the same organization in AWS Organization s using AWS Resource Access Manager ( AWS RAM ). The built-in sharing capabilities provide a solid foundation for multi-account resource management.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

After suffering a ransomware attack in 2019, Benjamin Buecher, IT manager for Lodi, Calif., and his team upgraded their cyberdefenses to include Rubrik Cloud Data Management. Buecher tells StateTech how the city discovered and implemented the solution.

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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

MAY 24, 2023

Smart cities continue to pop up all over the country, as many municipalities implement technologies that make public areas safer, more effective and more efficient. But there’s another element of the smart community movement that’s perhaps lesser known: the smart county.

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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. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Implementing checkpointing mechanisms is also critical to success to allow workloads to resume from their last known good state, whether on new Spot Instances or by failing over to On-Demand Instances as needed. Organizations should implement proper job tracking and task queue management to confirm that failed tasks are properly rescheduled.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

It’s really important to understand what systems your vendors can assess and to implement continuous monitoring.” Some years ago in Montana, a partner organization was struck with…

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

MARCH 13, 2024

Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here’s a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter from day one.

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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

JULY 31, 2024

Generative AI presents educators with an opportunity to create highly personalised work, aligned to the rate of progress manageable for each individual student, addressing their unique needs. The Department for Education of South Australia implemented an AI-powered platform to protect students online.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 15, 2024

“This budget allocation will allow the city to continue its efforts to lead the GovAI Coalition with the founding agencies and help other cities implement safe and responsible AI solutions,” says Chelsea Palacio, public information manager for the San Jose Information Technology Department.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Agencies, says Sprague, should also ask potential vendors for proof points on how their solution has been implemented in similar agencies. Connect with those agencies that have been successful with similar technology implementations and leverage their experiences for best practices.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By using the UK implementation guide for the LZA , UK customers can design environments that will help them to align to new NCSC guidance. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

The public sector’s use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is steadily growing, as these organizations learn how to implement and derive value from IoT solutions. AWS IoT lets customers onboard their IoT devices at scale and assists in managing them throughout their lifecycle. Let’s review them one by one.

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

AUGUST 1, 2024

by Sarah Brown, Journals Manager The idea of innovation has become one of the most persistent and sought-after today. While too conceptually elusive to pin down to a single statement, innovation can be broadly understood as a process whereby new… Continue reading →

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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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. But as these fleet managers begin to pivot towards electric vehicles, they face a dual challenge. “On On the other hand, a more daunting task lies in the build-out of charging infrastructure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

State and local government (SLG) agencies now have procurement questions to ask and decisions to make to maximize governance and security, simplify vendor management, and accelerate the overall process within a heavily regulated procurement environment. At the state and federal levels, programs are funded to support these efforts.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Instead of managing more than 400 individual connections with laboratories and other clinical entities, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with Manifest MedEx to integrate that data from 20 million-plus total messages, as of June 2023, into SaPHIRE.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 31, 2024

There is hardly any room for error when it comes to your agencys cybersecurity, and the first step is to be aware of the latest best practices around zero trust, identity management, and the current risk landscape. PT to hear from a management expert about how to set yourself up for success this year. Join us online Wednesday, Jan.

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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. In another instance, the North Carolina legislature tasked the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with launching a managed care model with encounter processing capability in just one year.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past decade, billions of federal dollars have been invested in reshaping how hospitals and clinics manage their health records. We’ve started with a digital assistant powered by generative AI that automates patient history reviews, a routine and time-consuming process that’s a leading cause of provider burnout.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

The National Bureau of Revenues VAT system, for example, now runs on SAPs HANA cloud database, and the Ministry of Justice has developed a cloud-based management system for legal cases, using a database and applications from Oracle.

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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. Improve load management Voice- and text-based chat assistants maintain continuity of service even when the contact center is closed.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

However, they soon realized that they needed to remove sensitive information from these devices and implement security controls, says Aaron Rose, security architect manager for vertical solutions at Check Point Software Technologies. Today, the DaaS concept involves procurement and management of devices, he says. DaaS is a…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Customers can confidently deploy CJIS workloads in either AWS (US) region, while maintaining access to simple and powerful cloud native tools to manage the full lifecycle of sensitive data. Agencies in Georgia are using AWS Managed Services Advanced to deploy and secure sensitive CJIS workloads in AWS US Commercial regions.”

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