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

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted. When a natural disaster strikes. “In

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CFP: 2022 Core Forum - Salt Lake City, Utah - October 13-15, 2022 @ALA_Core

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About Core Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, and Futures is the division of the American Library Association whose mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning.

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. Millions of people make the trip every year.

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Supporting 911 centers with non-emergency response solutions: An architecture guidance

AWS Public Sector Blog

Recent staffing shortages have forced select 911 centers to fall below the following National Emergency Number Association (NENA) standard: “90% of all 911 calls SHALL be answered within (≤) fifteen (15) seconds. 911 centers’ ability to continue to provide timely support is being challenged by unprecedented staffing shortfalls.

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Georgia DHS establishes a cloud strategy through a multiyear modernization journey

AWS Public Sector Blog

The department used AMS to modernize legacy technology onto a hosted platform that meets rigorous security guidelines and adds reliability to an environment where speed and availability are critical. Security was paramount to making sure that the cloud environment and integrated application platform met stringent U.S.

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How one council used machine learning to cut translation costs by 99.6%

AWS Public Sector Blog

All that has changed dramatically since building Translate, a machine translation application. Now, it takes us under 15 minutes. This is a guest post by Sarah Peña, head of emerging technology and business improvement at Swindon Borough Council, United Kingdom. First, the speed. There is no obvious trade-off in quality.

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Improve road safety by analyzing traffic patterns with no-code ML using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Public Sector Blog

Solution overview In this blog post, we discuss how transportation organizations can analyze the factors contributing to road accidents and predict accident severity using Amazon SageMaker Canvas no-code capability. Train and build the ML model. Figure 1: Architectural diagram of the solution described in this blog.