AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

In an increasingly digital world, governments and public sector entities are seeking secure and efficient ways to use cloud technologies. In this post, I share how we at AWS are collaborating with national cyber regulators and other public sector entities to enable secure adoption of the AWS Cloud across countries public sectors.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

The reality is that government networks may have a lot of connected equipment that IT staff dont manage or care about, which can create headaches for security teams. Ideally, in such situations, the security team will tell IT that if an asset is on the network, it needs to be in a configuration management database.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

During the panel, Tsui and Shen shared how their institutions use AWS to augment and enhance their research operations with more scalability, security, and collaboration alongside their on-premises infrastructure. Secure global collaboration: The cloud helps research teams share data and discoveries securely and compliantly with ease.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sean Hughes, Massachusetts assistant secretary for technology, security and operations, estimated the commonwealth is about halfway through migrating its employees into a single-sign-on portal where they can access all required government…

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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. This foundation enables more responsive and efficient government services while reducing operational costs. User: Does AWS have any recent FedRAMP compliance documents?

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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. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) has immense potential to deliver inclusive, secure, and foundational digital capabilities for entire nations efficiently and fast. The Sri Lankan government urgently sought a solution to equitably manage fuel distribution through systematic rationing, requiring rapid digital intervention.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

When Department of the Air Force (DAF) software factories scale their cloud operations across mission-critical environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging becomes crucial for security, compliance, and operational effectiveness.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

If youre working in highly regulated industries like the federal government or national security, you face unique challengesfrom managing complex legacy systems with accumulated technical debt to keeping pace with rapidly evolving technologies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The complexity of spacecraft operations has sky-rocketed with increased orbital activity and new satellite capabilities, like the ability to reconfigure capacity, power, and coverage on demand. Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In Massachusetts, a new comprehensive workspace management program has streamlined the deployment of computing devices to state employees, removing IT staff from the process entirely. It has been key in supporting the commonwealth’s move to remote and hybrid work.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 3, 2025

A new revolutionary quantum clock developed by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is expected to transform military operations by providing them with more precise timing This new technology is a big leap forward in reducing reliance on GPS, often vulnerable to jamming and disruption, particularly in conflict zones.

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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 ).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy. A multi-account strategy is important because: Each AWS account is an explicit security boundary, improving enterprise security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2025

Dominic Norton, Sales Director at Spitfire Network Services Ltd, discusses the evolution of security, focusing on the shift from physical to digital vulnerabilities, including securing IoT devices in the public sector Not long ago, securing a public sector site, whether a government office, school, or transport hub, was largely a physical process.

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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. They are now focused on bringing everyone together, starting with identity and federation, to ensure interoperability across the organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. Instead of capital expenditures on physical data centers, it has moved to an operational model that optimizes cloud spending. The partnership with AWS marked a pivotal moment for Bahrains digital modernization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Today’s satellite constellation operators find that, as their constellations grow, the complexity of their MOC increases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Global leaders are convening in Germany this week at the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) to discuss key foreign policy and security challenges. The mandate to innovate and modernize digital operations has never been more urgent. For the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Securing this data and ensuring appropriate access for users, devices, and systems are essential to protecting citizens from cyberattacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. AWS IoT lets customers onboard their IoT devices at scale and assists in managing them throughout their lifecycle. AWS IoT supports X.509

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There were 37,000 attempts in four days to log in to our firewall,” Mike Cypert, city manager of Hale Center, told the Associated Press. The city defeated the attack by disconnecting the water system’s operational technology (OT) from the internet.

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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.

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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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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

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

APRIL 1, 2025

While all AWS global regions are secure, it is important for U.S. It is important to note that operating in a given AWS U.S. AWS and customers work together using the AWS shared responsibility model which, among many benefits, provides customers a framework to inherit select AWS compliance controls, such as physical security.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post explains how you can use AWS tools and services to secure and automate compliance in your environment. Topics include AWS Audit Manager , AWS Config , AWS Systems Manager , and AWS Security Hub. Why automate security and compliance There are several reasons to automate security and compliance.

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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 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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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. Government customers with secure access to foundation models (FMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within AWSs classified environment. Sonnet to our U.S. What is Amazon Bedrock? Both models are accessible on demand.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend by 30 percent. The consolidation also improved staff productivity by reducing the cognitive load to manage multiple clouds. This post describes the Renaissance migration journey from March to October 2023.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In the demanding world of federal software development, teams are constantly challenged to deliver innovative solutions while upholding the highest security standards. The complexity of scaling teams, managing infrastructure, and ensuring consistent development environments can quickly become overwhelming.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

As the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud provider, we recognize our role and responsibility in supporting customers to use health data securely and responsibly. At AWS, security will always be our top priority. AWS is architected to be the most secure cloud computing environment available today.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the federal government, organizations face unique challenges in meeting strict security and compliance requirements. Assured Open Source Software : Offers a curated catalog of audited and approved open-source software helping ensure compliance and security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We explore the different security considerations for each protocol based on guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). Finally, we highlight how Amazon Web Services (AWS) services can help address these security considerations. Enable AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Regularly rotate certificates.

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