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ASTERRA helps build a more sustainable Earth by identifying and mitigating ‘lost water’ using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2017, ASTERRA has successfully verified more than 100,000 leaks, saving 368 billion gallons of water. By relying on managed services, ASTERRA can reduce the operational overhead and focus on their innovation efforts. As an example, the company chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy EO Discover. Get inspired.

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Building a Forever Modern IT Infrastructure Starts in the Cloud

Government Technology Insider

However, government agencies need to ask if they’ve made the right investments in the cloud over the last few years and if, as AI begins to play more of a role in workflows, they need to make any adjustments. last year, government agencies have been turning to technology to help the unhoused.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities. The federal government has increased efforts to improve the security of the software supply chain.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In some cases, these foundations or charities are created and operated by private citizens. In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Whether natural or human-made, disasters can leave telecommunications infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and communications networks are critical for operational planning, managing resources, and responding. With AWS support, the local government migrated their data to the cloud to support ongoing operations.

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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Government agencies that administer and operate SNAP can enhance beneficiaries’ experience through private partnerships that make eating healthy simple and affordable.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

trillion in total capital and operational expenditure associated with our two AWS infrastructure Regions in the country. In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan. Amazon is on a path to powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025.