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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the 2020 election, over half of the states in the US have changed election laws. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters. Educating and inspiring voters to get ready for the midterm elections. From registration deadlines to absentee rules to I.D. Register to vote now at TurboVote.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

This origin story traces back to the founding of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) service in 2004, which is now regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of cloud computing technology. The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4 billion more in its South African cloud infrastructure by 2029.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

He referred to 12 the tension between their profit-making and their public sector mission as “the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure,” resulting in a “conflict of interest attempting to serve both shareholders and a public mission.” mortgage originations.

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