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

APRIL 1, 2025

Rice University and Google Public Sector are partnering to launch the Rice AI Venture Accelerator (RAVA) , designed to drive early-stage AI innovation and commercialization. In an increasingly AI-driven world, the RAVA team acknowledges the critical need to balance speed of innovation and security.

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OpenGov

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

With the technology and cybersecurity challenges of state and local government increasing, we know it’s more important than ever to bring resilient, secure, and performant cloud technology to the public sector. appeared first on OpenGov.

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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 2, 2022

For any partners who weren’t able to attend on-site, I want to share what the worldwide public sector partners team is working on to better serve partners. Global Security and Compliance Acceleration Program (formerly ATO on AWS) supporting eight countries globally. Here are a few announcements you may have missed: 1.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a guest post by Ari Jóhannesson, chief executive officer of Andes, a cloud infrastructure and security company, in collaboration with the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Andes was selected as an expert team in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, and compliance. This was expected to be a six-month project.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For our public sector pioneers, tailored sessions and activations will amplify your re:Invent experience, and this post will help you to start charting your personalized agenda today. Join this session to explore how cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions are revolutionizing the public sector.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Many public sector organizations are seeking to integrate solutions deployed in their on-premises environments with new cloud applications and technologies as they modernize their organizations. Despite the rapid growth of software marketplace usage in recent years, some state and local government (SLG) purchasers are holding back.

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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 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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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

To streamline application development in support of everything from back-end business processes to constituent-facing services, state and local governments have embraced DevSecOps. This combination of development, security and operations helps to streamline and speed the development pipeline. What Is Platform Engineering?

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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. 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 12, 2023

Millions of Americans rely on state and local government technology systems every day. From drivers licenses to marriage certificates, every day interactions with government depend on technology. Behind that technology is a cadre of public sector experts making sure things work.

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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

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 3, 2023

The issue of document access and related administrative burdens is so ubiquitous that public health researchers have published papers about the detrimental impact a lack of identification has on those experiencing homelessness. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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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. Use cases There are multiple public sector use cases that can be resolved using Verified Permissions. Fine-grained authorization with Verified Permissions.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Arnie Armstrong, Cyber Security Principal at Made Tech , explains why a user-centred cyber security approach is vital to local government We often hear that the biggest cyber security vulnerability in any organisation is its own employees, but is this really the case? And do we need more education within teams?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The awards champion practitioners, teams, and leaders who transform people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves. This diversity is apparent in the awardees who represent a broad array of sectors from healthcare to public service to education to agriculture.

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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

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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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

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. One partner delivering resilient and secure cloud solutions is BJSS.

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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? million as of October 2024, according to the U.S.

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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

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

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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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. Cybrary will use AI to help overburdened security analysts screen, assess, and analyze data threats. At Mind the Air Gap, panelists from the U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When considering the migration of your legacy applications to a secure, multi-tenant cloud solution, consider the wise words of Albert Einstein, “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” When seeking a cloud-based ERP solution, security is paramount.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Civix , a government technology (GovTech) company, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide software and services that support multiple public sector use cases, including election management, grants management, and more. In just nine months, the Civix Ethics API was born. Learn more about AWS for GovTech.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Governments can use CGIT to retain the integrity of critical datasets, back up applications, and transfer services to run in the cloud, reducing the risk of compromise and enabling continuity of government. CGIT gives public sector bodies the ability to leverage globally distributed IT infrastructure to underpin their continuity plans.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If in-house staff resources are limited, the AWS Partner Network includes system integrators and consulting partners that specialize in migrations and public sector cloud environment design and management. Learn more about public sector migrations on AWS. For Victor, the ILS migration presented a welcome challenge.

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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. From July 23-24 in Austin, Texas , join more than 500 leaders across education and state and local government to learn how advancements in cloud technology are shaping the future of education and public services.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

And it’s what’s led to my joining Google Public Sector shortly after it was formed in July of 2022. Underpinning Google products and services – which provide an intuitive, personalized consumer experience – is artificial intelligence and security. It is what we have come to think of as the “Google magic.” In Dearborn, Mich.,

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