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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Natural disasters are devastating, often resulting in loss of life and massive property damage. After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

Every day, people around the world are impacted by the unexpected – from pandemics, to natural and human-wrought disasters, to economic crises. According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue.