AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In todays digital landscape, federal agencies face unprecedented challenges in securing their complex information technology (IT) infrastructure. Les insights underscore the complexity of implementing zero trust in an organization as vast and diverse as the DoD.

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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 capability is crucial for effective public sector planning and decision-making. User: Does AWS have any recent FedRAMP compliance documents?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

When Department of the Air Force (DAF) software factories scale their cloud operations across mission-critical environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging becomes crucial for security, compliance, and operational effectiveness.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Users can execute and parameterize queries and analytics through the interface and retrieve most recently available data from satellites, using secure proxy connections to publicly inaccessible databases. Some other projects powered by Aether include Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) and Chemical Security Mapping Tool (CSMT).

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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. AWS IoT supports X.509

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Furthermore, the sensitive nature of genomic data mandates a secure environment for processing and storage. However, for bioinformatics workflows involving multiple tools, the process of pulling each image can be time-consuming and challenging to manage.

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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. In 2020, Bahrain established the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) to strengthen digital security.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Dominic Norton, Sales Director at Spitfire Network Services Ltd, discusses the evolution of security, focusing on the shift from physical to digital vulnerabilities, including securing IoT devices in the public sector Not long ago, securing a public sector site, whether a government office, school, or transport hub, was largely a physical process.

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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 29, 2025

Federal agencies can implement this solution to meet legal accessibility requirements, serve citizens more effectively, reduce manual processing costs, and scale accessibility services. AWS services for accessibility implementation The solution we will discuss in this post uses AWS services to automate document processing and delivery.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2025

The implementation of an operational data store (ODS) presents a viable solution. As states continue to transition towards more modular architectures and look for efficiencies, adopting an ODS is vital in maintaining cohesive and effective data management. Consider a legacy MMIS like the one shown in the following figure.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. AWS and customers work together using the AWS shared responsibility model which, among many benefits, provides customers a framework to inherit select AWS compliance controls, such as physical security. Security Reference Architecture for U.S. commercial regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

AWS can support implementation of the EHDS At Amazon Web Services (AWS) , we welcome the EHDS as an important step towards unleashing the vast potential of health data to benefit citizens across Europe and beyond. At AWS, security will always be our top priority.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) is a solution to automate the deployment of a secure cloud foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this solution, 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

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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State Tech Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Andy Hanks, who formerly served as Montana’s CISO, was once reminded the hard way to ensure that vendor contracts contain thorough security policies. 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We explore the different security considerations for each protocol based on guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). Finally, we highlight how Amazon Web Services (AWS) services can help address these security considerations. Enable AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Regularly rotate certificates.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To support federal customers in addressing these challenges, Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Data Fabric Security (DFS) on AWS solution to support the identity and access needs of a multi-organization system. This will facilitate agile and secure data sharing with their providers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 14, 2025

Ali Farooqui, Head of Cyber Security at BJSS , now part of CGI , explores how companies can balance the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) with robust cybersecurity practices “Can AI do it?” AI has enabled attackers to build vectors more quickly, allowing their tools to adjust more efficiently to new security measures.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Justice and public safety agencies and their solution providers are building highly available, resilient, and secure applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at a rapid pace. When AWS launched these CJIS Security compliance innovations in early 2019, we did so with reference to our AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

At AWS, security is our top priority. At AWS, security is our top priority. With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), customers can control network security using network access control lists (NACL) and security groups (SG). Third-party firewalls can help address these needs. Learn more about NGFWs.

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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

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? In June 2023, StateRAMP updated their security baselines to align with 800-53 revision 5 (R5). What is StateRAMP?

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In today's digital age, securing an organization's information is more critical than ever. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stood up a program called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA). This includes best practices for configuration management, and monitoring of those environments.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Handling approximately 285,000 legal cases annually means that the Nebraska Judicial Branch manages hundreds of thousands of paper documents, audio and video files, and various forms of evidence every year. If you’re interested in learning more about this TTM, please speak to your AWS Partner Development Manager or contact AWS.

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MARCH 5, 2025

In an era of escalating cyber threats, the healthcare sector, a prime target for data breaches, requires robust security. In this landscape, traditional authentication methods such as passwords and security questions are increasingly inadequate.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Microsoft Security Copilot and NIST 800-171 It is with bated breath that we await the publication of a Proposed Rule and final draft of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0. Implementation and management of cybersecurity technology, to meet a regulatory requirement or not, has financial implications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

However, with these benefits come challenges to meet regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding data privacy and security. One of the onerous and time-consuming tasks for builders is to interpret and map these requirements before implementing them, which can affect their release cycle.

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