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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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

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As data-driven operations become both larger and increasingly more mission-critical, many organizations are exploring their options. The colocation provider handles cooling, building security, network connectivity, environment monitoring, maintenance and power infrastructure. Where does data live? Where does it get put into action?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The long-term plan is to guide emerging technology companies, allowing them to defend against a range of national security threats, particularly from nation-state actors. This shows a joint effort between the Five Eyes nations in addressing common security challenges.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These two issues are closely connected: As states pursue ways to offer new services to citizens and improve current ones, they also face greater security challenges. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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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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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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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Neglecting regular patch management can create gaping security holes, leaving agencies susceptible to malware, ransomware and other attacks. Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially. million in 2023

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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

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In todays digital landscape, federal agencies face unprecedented challenges in securing their complex information technology (IT) infrastructure. Agencies need to shift towards a zero trust approach to identify threats before they can move laterally and limit their attack surface.

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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

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. Customers can switch seamlessly between self-hosted LLMs and externally hosted models.

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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-world applications in public sector Lets explore how Amazon Bedrock Agents and Powertools for AWS Lambda help public sector agencies improve their operations through practical examples.

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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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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

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

MAY 1, 2024

After migration, Renaissance realized performance, scalability, and security improvements, all while reducing cloud spend by 30 percent. Architecturally, the team updated resources to current, supported versions, including operating systems and database versions. Prior to migration, the team was relatively new to AWS.

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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. In June 2022, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Colin Ahern as the first chief cyber officer for the state.

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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. Device Connectivity: Due to the highly connected nature of IoT devices, weak security in one device can compromise the entire network.

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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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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The city defeated the attack by disconnecting the water system’s operational technology (OT) from the internet. “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.

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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). This blog post provides technical guidance for UK organisations to implement their landing zone in-line with guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) using the LZA.

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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 6, 2024

According to the most recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, “The State of Data Security: Measuring Your Data’s Risk,” 94 percent of IT and security leaders reported that their organizations experienced significant cyberattacks last year; one-third of these victims endured at least one ransomware attack.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Almost half of respondents (43 percent) are interested in using generative AI to improve operational efficiency, followed by enhancing communications (29 percent), education and workforce development (28 percent), and enhancing citizen services (21 percent). The benefits can’t be ignored.

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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

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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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? Amazon Titan Text Embedding v2.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 14, 2025

Ali Farooqui, Head of Cyber Security at BJSS , now part of CGI , explores how companies can balance the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) with robust cybersecurity practices “Can AI do it?” This helps operation teams monitor the vast amounts of malicious traffic noise that some new-age attack vectors generate.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Revisit key re:Invent announcements At re:Invent 2024, AWS launched numerous new offerings across analytics, compute, containers, database, security, identity, compliance, and other areas. But the biggest focus was on generative AI with over 25 new product and feature launches.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to join senior decision-makers and thought leaders from around the world at the 60th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from February 16-18. MSC is a leading global forum for discussing the most pressing international security challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Federal customers are often challenged by integrating data across multiple systems and providing federated access to authenticated users operating across multiple organizations. This will facilitate agile and secure data sharing with their providers.

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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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