AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. With digital learning becoming increasingly popular, managing a vast amount of educational data can be challenging. This information is indexed later.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, the growing availability of artificial intelligence tools has simplified tasks such as adding AI capabilities to a city’s 311 information website, delivering a means for citizens to gain answers quickly by interacting with a chatbot. Adopting such solutions often involve investments in cloud computing.

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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. Real-time data access is particularly vital for priority responses, where timely information can make the difference in critical situations.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

I know how important it is that our nurseries, schools, colleges and universities are protected from online threats, and we stand ready to support settings that are victims of cybercrime said Martin Sivorn, Chief Information Security Officer at the Department for Education (DfE). The future of education depends on it.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 7, 2023

Current and retired federal employees have recently reported widespread problems accessing their retirement savings and account information through the federal retirement system known as the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Congress asked GAO to examine.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unlike floods, droughts develop slowly, allowing decision-makers to anticipate and respond effectively through early drought information systems that use dynamic modeling and real-time data. For example, creating digital twins of water systems promotes more effective management and simulation of various scenarios.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Data is a critical part of the new drug product life cycle management and journey. Data mesh to the rescue Data mesh is an architectural framework that enables organizations to redefine how they manage and utilize their data assets. By adopting a DaaP mindset, pharmaceutical companies can unlock a host of benefits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As we approach the end of 2024, cybersecurity and information technology (IT) professionals are reflecting on a year filled with unprecedented challenges and opportunities to improve processes. State and local government organizations have faced numerous threats, from man-made and climate-related risks to third-party breaches and incidents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Their offerings include 911 call handling, computer-aided dispatch (CAD), records management systems (RMS), and more—helping agencies manage life-threatening emergencies as well as everyday business needs. This data is then accessible immediately, anytime and anywhere, by authorized staff.

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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. Although authentication is often managed through external identity providers (IdPs) such as Amazon Cognito , authorization logic is usually implemented within the application code.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

Information on hosting workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) is available on this webpage. This architectural diagram shows the architecture for six accounts: the organization management account, accounts for security tooling, log archive, network, shared services, and application. You can find guidance on making this choice in this article.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Where visible, these strong relationships informed StateTech's list of 30 State and Local Government IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2023. StateTech has closely followed themes of modern workplace management, IT modernization, cloud management and cybersecurity preparedness this year…

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The age of digital transformation is upon us, and hybrid cloud solutions are taking center stage in managing state and local government agency operations. Does it aid in sharing information and analyzing data as it claims to do? Hybrid cloud is an environment that blends on-premises, private cloud and third-party public cloud services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Modular Data Center (MDC) is a service that enables rapid deployment of AWS managed data centers for running location- or latency-sensitive applications in locations with limited infrastructure. Start by completing and submitting the contact form on the AWS MDC page in the AWS Management Console (Figure 2).

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

Click the banner for information about managed services that can fill staff shortages. IT staffing continues to challenge rural government agencies, often making it difficult to execute on new technology initiatives. Asking these five questions can improve matters.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, agencies stood up new solutions, augmented their epidemiologic data with other data sources, or looked to their local Health information Exchange (HIE) for support. CyncHealth’s expertise in managing these types of clinical data accelerated the implementation process.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

State and local governments increasingly have technologies at their disposal that make it easier to manage the reams of data they collect. The emerging data management design known as data fabric allows agencies to link disparate information repositories. And cloud-based tools can help governments automate data analysis.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Agencies looking for solutions to support their security operations centers will likely come across three proven tactics that can help governments stay secure and protect citizen data: Security information and event management (SIEM) Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) Extended detection and response (XDR) Each of these centralized (..)

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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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State Tech Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently released a report, “Navigating the Metaverse: Potential Applications and Implications for State Government,” that looks at some early considerations for state government with respect to the metaverse.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

Making things more efficient, reducing barriers to doing business with agencies, simplifying paperwork and moving to online processes wherever possible are all top-of-mind strategies for managers who want to deliver better constituent services. One piece of that equation is often contact centers.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 3, 2025

The basic problem is this: as a growing number of people rely on AI to get the information they need, their attention is being diverted from the basics of data management. Here are a few of the reports alarming findings: 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form.

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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? What is StateRAMP? In both StateRAMP and FedRAMP there is a “Ready Status.”

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The answer lies in data — information showing which disease variants are spreading, where cases are spiking, how many people are vaccinated, and many more essential details. and has undergone independent security assessment conducted by a third-party assessment organization (3PAO).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This challenge presented an opportunity for Dan Alig , former chief information officer (CIO) for the Wharton School and recently named AWS Champion. They used Amazon Bedrock , a fully managed service that lets users build on top of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, and a variety of data provisioning tools.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

5 Tech Trends to Watch According to Gartner, here are the top technology trends that government chief information officers should watch. Digital Identity Ecosystems: Government agencies could play a vital role in the development of systems for managing the use of digital identities across the public and private sectors.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Scott Varner, director of IT and management information systems for Frederick County, Va., Local government CIOs agreed that artificial intelligence has great potential for staff augmentation but noted that they are only in the early stages of testing AI use cases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security. R3 Score Technologies, Inc. Baltimore, MD R3 Score Technologies, Inc.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In closing the programming for the annual conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently, state CIOs emphasized the importance of enterprise architecture in achieving their goals in burgeoning IT focus areas. Enterprise architecture and…

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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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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In its list of State CIO Top 10 Priorities for 2023, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers cited cybersecurity and risk management as the top concern, while digital government and digital services ranked second.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

The solution involved using eVai in conjunction with AWS Cloud services for secure data storage and management. Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns (SIMPaCT) is an innovative new approach to using and conserving water to cool our urban environments. Pieces is running on Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe.

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