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Hurricane season 2023: Supporting hurricane response efforts with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

While the 2023 hurricane season kicks off June 1, the reality is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working to help organizations and communities respond to hurricanes long before a storm forms. Pictured: A customized AWS Disaster Response Jeep in a field test exercise.

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AWS selects 13 startups to innovate public safety solutions through the GovTech Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges. Launched in June at the AWS Summit in Washington, D.C.,

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How to get ready for AWS Summit Washington, DC 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

On June 7-8, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will again host the AWS Summit Washington, DC at the Walter E. This no cost, two-day event brings the public sector cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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How to detect wildfire smoke using Amazon Rekognition

AWS Public Sector Blog

In addition to the risk to life and biodiversity, wildfires can destroy and disrupt property, essential infrastructure, communications, air quality, and more. As a result, I developed the new purpose-trained model using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to better assist in creating a more wildfire smoke-focused object detection model.

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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

The index was developed in collaboration with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and it ranks communities based on pollution levels, environmental hazards, poverty, quality of education, walkability and other factors. TxCOPE, an open data app developed at the University of Texas in Austin, is one of them.