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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.

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Hurricane season 2023: Supporting hurricane response efforts with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Innovating in advance Throughout the year, AWS Disaster Response develops and tests new innovations that utilize cloud technology to enable more efficient disaster response capabilities for our customers and relief organizations. Pictured: A customized AWS Disaster Response Jeep in a field test exercise.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS supports technical training for investigators and students to increase awareness of how the cloud can accelerate their research related to prediction, preparedness, and response, in addition to supporting first responders with workshops on geo-mapping. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5

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AWS launches first GovTech Accelerator to drive innovation in government

AWS Public Sector Blog

Across the United States, many 911 centers are running on legacy technology vulnerable to disaster-related outages , while others face staffing gaps as high as 50%. The startups will be notified by Wednesday, August 9, 2023, and the program will kick off with an in-person event in Fall 2023.

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Defining Open Data

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CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. That is particularly true of disasters with wide-ranging impacts. TxCOPE, an open data app developed at the University of Texas in Austin, is one of them.

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How to get ready for AWS Summit Washington, DC 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

This no cost, two-day event brings the public sector cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. The event mobile app also includes other important event information, such as an Expo and building map, safety and security information, and answers to frequently asked questions.

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

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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.,