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

DECEMBER 18, 2024

State and local government organizations have faced numerous threats, from man-made and climate-related risks to third-party breaches and incidents. As we enter the holiday season and look ahead to 2025, its crucial for state and local government organizations to maintain heightened vigilance against cyber threats.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, delivers his Innovation Talk. Dave Levy, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, delivered his talk, “ Empowering citizens through digital innovation ,” on Monday, November 27. Singapore became the first customer to deploy an AWS Dedicated Local Zone.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2020 and 2021, many state and local government agencies invested in new PC fleets to accommodate pandemic-induced remote working conditions. We were just starting to get on Teams and Zoom all day long, Jen Larson, general manager for the commercial clients segment at Intel, tells StateTech.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Building on a strong history of public sector partnerships, Crowns continued inclusion on G-Cloud 14 ensures that organisations can benefit from streamlined procurement processes, reduced administrative burdens and compliance with government procurement standards.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A crucial step forward came with the release of a web-services catalogue of data available within the government. All organizations within the public sector can now publish the services they provide, which enables other parties to access government data and build affiliated services.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Courts and other public safety organizations are being targeted by a rising number of cyber events,” said Kim Majerus, vice president of global education and US state and local government at AWS. created a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for Intelligent Digital Evidence Management Systems (iDEMS).

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. Building on the programs success, AWS will bring AWS Learning Days to new cities in 2025.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. In the UK, 44 local government bodies—called councils—use an open approach to share expertise and pool resources to transform their web publishing platforms using LocalGov Drupal.

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Davies In our recently published article in Policy & Politics, we explore the context for local authorities in England that have been pushed to develop “resilience.” By Tania Arrieta and Jonathan S. This has been as a result of the… Continue reading →

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 2, 2024

That set us to thinking about the many words that gain currency in the public sector but are understood differently, depending on the speaker and circumstances. Just the other day we were having a conversation with a well-known expert in human resources, and we made mention of performance management. Words matter.

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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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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the government sector , digital twins can be particularly useful in optimizing the performance of essential infrastructure, such as transportation networks, power grids, and water systems. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Opening their phone, they were able to provide copies of their ID, Social Security card, and even a fully signed copy of their intake forms with the HOPICS case manager who set them up with Kiip. Kiip, working with HOPICS and powered by AWS, enables unhoused individuals to securely keep, manage, and share copies of their vital documents.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

State and local governments employed 20.5 Job openings in September 2024 in state and local governments in the U.S. So, if local governments need to hire qualified workers to replace those leaving, where can they turn to when recruiting? He is the owner and managing director of Immigrant Spirit LLC.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2020, Canton’s chief of police, Jack Angelo, wanted to extend public safety monitoring city-wide, saying “Eventually our goal is to have most all of the city covered,” by using Wi-Fiber’s extensive broadband mesh network. Today, the city is nearly there. Learn more about Wi-Fiber.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After pricing out multiple options, the Library District opted to manage their own ILS migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Library District can also manage the ILS environment remotely, which provides their small IT staff with greater flexibility in responding to unexpected emergencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Partners are playing a key role in the continued digital transformation of public sector organizations. Public sector customers are asking for ways to increase the speed, accessibility, security, and resiliency of their systems and data. An increase in solution-oriented tools.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In a March 2022 survey of 147 state and local government leaders by the Center for Digital Government , more than half of respondents said they plan to procure citizen-facing applications and storage and backup infrastructure in the next one to two years. However, some public sector organizations are challenged by procurement.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

David Knox is the group vice president for Oracle Public Sector. He's a highly regarded technologist with extensive knowledge of cybersecurity and data management. With decades of technology leadership experience, Knox emphasized the growing importance of artificial intelligence and data analysis.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

This helps the public evaluate potential conflicts of interest, deters corruption, and increases confidence in government. Many of these campaign officials and employees, collectively known as filers, utilize third-party campaign management systems to help with this and other aspects of their campaigns.

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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.

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Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Google Cloud Next , our global showcase for the latest technologies and customer success stories, public sector organizations shared their innovative work to support constituents. Subsidiaries Benelux plans to leverage GDCH’s flexibility to manage regional data with the fine-tuned controls required for digital sovereignty.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This webinar is ideal for both state and local governments that are looking to learn more about POTS replacement. He has over two decades of experience in Unified Communications and nearly fifteen years in corporate development and strategic partnerships, with broad technical, sales, product management, and business model skills.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As the public sector pushes to employ stronger digital frameworks, it’s time for state and local governments to size up their legacy data centers. In the United States, every public sector data breach costs an estimated $2 million,…

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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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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

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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 26, 2022

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS): Fully managed message queues for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Learn more about how AWS supports justice and public safety customers. Read more about AWS for state and local governments : How the Port of Long Beach addresses supply chain challenges with AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Leaders in education and state and local government know that technology is changing at a rapid pace. That’s the central theme of this year’s AWS IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no cost to attend; register now to secure your spot.

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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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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As a pioneer in AI , we have spent the last two decades leveraging AI to organize the world’s information, make it useful, and to bring commercial-grade data analytics, security and gen AI to the public sector. At Google Public Sector, many of our customers are already using AI to accelerate their missions and impact.

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