AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Modernization has become imperative for public sector organizations of all sizes to drive mission outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

The public sector faces unique challenges that demand innovative solutions to improve productivity and service delivery. This capability is crucial for effective public sector planning and decision-making. This capability is crucial for effective public sector planning and decision-making.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we look toward the future, it’s clear that public sector organizations will need to continue to adapt and innovate to successfully navigate the constantly-evolving global landscape and changing needs of their end users and constituents. Greater adoption of AI and ML to advance mission outcomes. Experimenting with quantum computing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Application modernization helps public sector customers innovate faster with resilient, highly available, and scalable applications. In this blog post, learn how public sector customers use AWS serverless and containers technology to modernize their applications. Building modern applications with serverless.

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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. Three procurement considerations for cybersecurity initiatives 1.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Artificial intelligence is not just a technological advancement; it's a national security priority. Championing a culture of AI innovation can bolster security and drive significant mission impact. Security and AI leadership in action: CalHEERS and Covered California In the U.S.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Compliance is essential, but ensuring compliance in the cloud with various regulations and standards can be challenging, especially for public sector organizations. This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

(Precise), an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner , participated in the AWS Think Big for Small Business Program (TBSB) to expand their AWS capabilities and to grow their business in the public sector. Precise also worked with the agency to obtain an Authorization to Operate (ATO) for security clearance to use the MLaaS platform.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the exchange of sensitive health data introduces many complexities, requiring specialized solutions to make sure information is shared securely and in consistent formats across organizations. The Association of Public Health Laboratories ( APHL ) understands the vital role that data plays in improving public health.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Public sector organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. As public sector organizations accumulate a significant amount of data, much of that data lives in different silos.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the release of a public-sector focused eBook on generative artificial intelligence (AI). However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The benefit of AI in the public sector The report builds on previous research that suggests that generative AI could contribute over £400 billion to the UK’s economy by 2030, driven by productivity gains across various sectors. First, it calls for better integration and structuring of public sector datasets.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap? To further support this initiative, Healey secured funding from her organization to create the role of Director of Training and Change Management in her department, which helped make cloud and digital skills training a priority.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s digital age, security has an expanded definition. While physical security remains a critical focus, businesses and other public sector organizations are bolstering their security posture towards a less visible vulnerability: data and computer systems. million , and experts predict the threat to grow.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 29, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resilience Hub provides you with a single place to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement. Establishing the correct recovery objective targets at an application level is a critical part of business continuity planning.

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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. Browse the catalog of 2024 session presentations here.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But for many sectors, including the public sector, it can be difficult to harness the technical expertise needed to achieve this. We also support businesses through a global network of trusted AWS Partners doing business with public sector organizations in more than 150 countries.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

AI is rapidly reshaping the public sector, ushering in a new era of intelligent and AI-powered service delivery and mission impact. Realizing its full potential to improve government services, enhance decision-making, and ultimately create a more efficient and effective public sector requires leadership and a clear commitment.

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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

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

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. Device Connectivity: Due to the highly connected nature of IoT devices, weak security in one device can compromise the entire network. AWS IoT supports X.509

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

UK public sector organisations are facing threats and increasingly sophisticated attacks on key infrastructure and software security This trend is only expanding as more services become digitised and complex software supply chains multiply the opportunities for malicious actors to infiltrate networks.

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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). 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.

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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 2, 2023

In this post, learn use cases for digital twins, plus how to create an open-source digital twin sample front-end application built with AWS Amplify , Amazon Cognito , and AWS IoT Core that you can use as a starting point for building efficient, scalable, and secure digital twin solutions.

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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. Solution overview The main objective of this solution is to implement version control for workflow files and establish a robust security posture by scanning for vulnerabilities in containers pulled from public repositories.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“Local governments have been a unique entity in the cyber-security landscape because of their lack of ability to pay ransomware,” Mahna explains. Mahna notes that public sector entities lack resources to combat cyber threats. But times have changed, and today, cities and counties face ransomware attacks.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the past few years, governments, schools, hospitals, and many public sector entities have had to scale and accelerate their digital transformation rapidly with limited resources. Our team’s goal is to help partners be profitable while accelerating digital transformation for UK&I public sector customers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dave Levy , vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, is hosting the session, “ Empowering citizens through digital innovation ” on Monday, November 27, at 4:30 p.m. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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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 CJIS policy changes. How AWS supports the CJIS policy requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Both apps have been foundational to LAUSD’s campus security strategy. Because the district’s data contained sensitive student health information and images, the data had to be encrypted during transit and migrated securely. To support Kokomo’s migration, AWS worked to validate the architecture and help with security assessments.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The impact of generative AI for the public sector can be groundbreaking. To jumpstart your secure gen AI journey, we developed the Public Sector Guide to Getting Started with Gen AI. Generative AI empowers agencies with an always-on AI collaborator, helping workers be more collaborative, creative, and productive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CGIT gives public sector bodies the ability to leverage globally distributed IT infrastructure to underpin their continuity plans. At this level, the AWS Cloud is used to securely store critical datasets in one or more AWS Regions of our government customers’ choice. Level 1: Cloud backup.

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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). Baseline implementation guides can be found at Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project | CISA.

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