AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. It is important to note that operating in a given AWS U.S. Independent third-party attestation audits provide assurance that control activities are operating as intended.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In North Dakota, CISO Michael Gregg is running a security operations center that benefits his state and local government agency partners in several ways. By manning a highly capable security operations center, Gregg relieves his North Dakota peers of that challenge.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In fact, according to Sophos, almost a quarter of state and local government IT leaders report exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities as the root cause of ransomware. Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Anything that can operate at machine speed can spot something of interest in torrents of data faster than a person can. For state and local government agencies, AI’s capabilities — new and old — enable higher-quality responses… Even then, it was clear that AI could improve mean time to detection.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

When it comes to preparing for a cyberattack, local governments often want to go backward before they go forward. With an incident response plan comes with standard operating procedures that define who handles what during a security breach. A gap analysis should result in a documented framework. Cybersecurity…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ). Different alerts can send to multiple locations based on use case.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Click the banner below to explore ways to transform government operations. This means prioritizing tools and technology that enable an agency to create a digital experience that is scalable, secure, reliable and cost-effective.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As citizens’ expectations evolve and the need for rapid, accurate information becomes more pronounced, state and local governments seek smarter ways to keep pace. Enter Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs)—the dynamic duo powering the next wave of efficient state and local government services.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In one instance, insight from sensor data even allowed the city to improve its street sweeping operation. The technology provides real-time data on the city’s 1,750 vehicles, from speed and fuel usage to engine diagnostics and driver behavior. Tourism is a big economic driver…

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For state and local agencies, the growing use of network-connected devices in daily operations coupled with the increasing prevalence of IoT compromise means it’s time to…

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

For many local government leaders, artificial intelligence was not a concern before the mainstream rise of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Google Bard (now Gemini), in 2023. Now, a recent Bloomberg Philanthropies poll of 100 global mayors found that 96 precent are interested in using generative AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A cloud marketplace is operated by a cloud service provider (CSP) and serves as a place for customers to browse and subscribe to software applications and developer services that are built on, integrate with, or supplement the CSP’s main offering. A cloud marketplace provides broad access to these solutions.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Luckily, state and local governments can rely on sandboxing, a time-tested method to thwart attackers. There, it’s prodded and watched (also known as being “detonated”) to see how it responds to standard programs and operating systems such as Windows and Linux. The onslaught of malware never ends.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When you spread technology over 90 different agencies with 90 different business needs, it creates a bunch of information silos that keep you from operating efficiently. Digital transformation of back-office operations Modernizing at any level of government requires vision and a long-term strategy.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

Today, it can take days or weeks for an organization to recover from cyber incidents and resume operations. State and local government agencies need a clear plan that delivers business continuity, speeds recovery time and…

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

By making data centers more efficient, state and local governments can kill two (or more) birds with one stone. In the face of regulatory mandates and pressure from citizens, agencies are rightly looking to make their operations more sustainable. That should include data centers, which are large consumers of energy.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Citizens count on state and local governments to maintain essential digital services and properly handle a plethora of sensitive data. Major disruptions to government operations can have a major impact on public life. Agencies must ensure the continuity of operations even in these situations.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

State and local governments have the crucial responsibility of protecting essential utilities and citizen data from cyberattacks.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

For state and local governments, the difference between weathering a crisis or succumbing to a cascading disaster lies in continuity of operations plans. The world can be dangerous and unpredictable. COOPs are decidedly not sexy. They stay quietly unheralded until an emergency, large or small, makes them essential.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Keeping citizens safe is a primary task for thousands of state and local government agencies across the U.S. — An important trend in this regard is the emergence of mission-critical operations centers (MCOCs), which integrate data from different data streams to help state and local governments make better decisions about public safety.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In it, 61 local government IT executives ranked their top management and operational priorities, and to no one’s surprise, cybersecurity remained at the top of the list. In June, the Public Technology Institute published its 10th annual State of City and County IT National Survey.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2023

State and local governments have long had good reasons to operate IT infrastructure on-premises, particularly when it comes to data storage. Some data, such as information that includes citizens’ Social Security numbers, is too sensitive to quickly trust its care to others.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

For state and local government agencies, choosing the right one can make the difference between a prolonged crash and recovery in a matter of seconds. Eighty percent of data center operators experienced an outage in the past three years, according to a recent survey by Uptime Institute.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

Given its importance, state and local governments would benefit from modernizing their facilities management practices to optimize efficiency. In today’s environment, agencies might wonder how government building operators can modernize.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

During this term, the court will hear several cases that could impact local governments and their operations. The National League of Cities (NLC), through partnership with the Local Government Legal Center (LGLC), has joined a number of amicus briefs supporting and […] Source

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

So too do new offerings to help state and local governments recover as quickly as possible. Government agencies often turn to Disaster Recovery as a Service to ensure a rapid return to operations. The goal is to replicate both data and infrastructure offsite — often in the cloud.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2023

State and local governments have long had good reasons to operate IT infrastructure on-premises, particularly when it comes to data storage. Some data, such as information that includes citizens’ Social Security numbers, is too sensitive to quickly trust its care to others.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

Previously, the governor established the state’s first Joint Security Operations Center and based it in Brooklyn. As chief cyber officer, Ahern manages cybersecurity threat assessment, mitigation and response for the state and across the interagency government enterprise. In June 2022, New York Gov.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

State and local governments are turning to electronic procurement solutions to simplify and speed the purchase of products and services. Through systems like this, e-procurement is changing the way state and local agencies operate. The Team Georgia Marketplace, for example, leverages PeopleSoft procurement tools.

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GovPilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Local governments across the U.S. Demand on local governments to provide continued efficient operations and new community services from trash removal to rental assistance, to code enforcement and business loan applications, is extremely high.

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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. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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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. This pause mechanism enables data integrity and allows operations teams to investigate the root cause.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As the complexity and volume of cyberattacks continue to increase, there’s an urgent need for state and local governments to work together to manage their risk. In this approach, state government works closely with city and county governments to prevent and prepare for incidents, and to provide support when incidents occur. “At

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