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

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT). RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. When a natural disaster strikes. “In