AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Today’s satellite constellation operators find that, as their constellations grow, the complexity of their MOC increases.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“With Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts we are able provide extra local resiliency to customers in government and highly regulated industries like banking who need highly resilient services that can continue to operate even if there is limited local connectivity back to the AWS Region,” said Hlöðver Thor, CEO of AWS Partner Andes.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That was a widespread power outage and cellphone network failure, and we kept the network operable,” says Katja Millard, vice president of critical communications at Motorola. As climate change drives increasingly severe weather impacts, forward-thinking municipalities are looking to radio’s robust reliability as a must-have.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2024

DnA’s engineering team, led by director of engineering Sebastian Gunn-Hamner, is located in the US and India and is responsible for both the development and operation of the application, which supports 1,000-plus customers. This post describes the Renaissance migration journey from March to October 2023.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2025

Attacks range from ransomware and data breaches to more insidious cyber espionage, resulting in severe operational disruptions and substantial financial implications. These attacks, frequently attributed to foreign threat actors from countries such as China or Iran, pose risks for state and local governments.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The provider had to postpone all billing operations in the wake of unauthorized system access, and more than 14 million people were unable to pay for water during the weeklong billing shutdown. In early October, the largest utility in the U.S. was hit by a devastating cyberattack.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As data-driven operations become both larger and increasingly more mission-critical, many organizations are exploring their options. Where does data live? Where does it get put into action? While state and local agencies may have their own data centers, colocation offers an alternative.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, LLMs alone may fall short in providing timely and relevant insights, especially for agencies managing dynamic and time-sensitive operations. Real-world applications in public sector Lets explore how Amazon Bedrock Agents and Powertools for AWS Lambda help public sector agencies improve their operations through practical examples.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

For many local government leaders, artificial intelligence was not a concern before the mainstream rise of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Google Bard (now Gemini), in 2023. Now, a recent Bloomberg Philanthropies poll of 100 global mayors found that 96 precent are interested in using generative AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

From protecting sensitive student data to safeguarding critical infrastructure, educational institutions require comprehensive security solutions to maintain their operations and trust with parents and students.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

From teaching typing to boosting armed forces recruitment, gaming has been used in training, education and even business operations. For as long as there have been video games, there have been attempts to use them for productivity. For instance, certain branches of the U.S.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially. In fact, according to Sophos, almost a quarter of state and local government IT leaders report exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities as the root cause of ransomware.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

When Department of the Air Force (DAF) software factories scale their cloud operations across mission-critical environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging becomes crucial for security, compliance, and operational effectiveness. The framework provides a solid foundation that can evolve with changing cloud governance needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The mandate to innovate and modernize digital operations has never been more urgent. Cloud migration drives transformation Cloud migration has become a cornerstone for federal agencies seeking to modernize their digital operations and unlock mission success. For the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Anything that can operate at machine speed can spot something of interest in torrents of data faster than a person can. Machine learning and deep learning, which are subsets of artificial intelligence, have been used for intrusion detection as far back as the early 2000s. Even then, it was clear that AI could improve mean time to detection.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Moving government workloads to the cloud has enhanced service delivery, increased agility, and reduced operational costs. Instead of capital expenditures on physical data centers, it has moved to an operational model that optimizes cloud spending. The government also revamped its procurement strategy.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Officials set up an emergency operations center to support volunteers who were filling sandbags to mitigate the damage. To connect the government staff operating the emergency operations center, the county’s three-person IT team dropped a switch into a remote barn and configured it automatically. faced flooding.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The updated infrastructure required for going cashless has improved operational efficiency while setting up the agency for the future, says Bruce Meisch, director And the benefit to the organization tasked with maintaining this route between Kansas City and the Oklahoma state line?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Almost half of respondents (43 percent) are interested in using generative AI to improve operational efficiency, followed by enhancing communications (29 percent), education and workforce development (28 percent), and enhancing citizen services (21 percent). The benefits can’t be ignored.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Work backward from your understanding of what AI enables you to do The AnyOrganization chief operations officer (COO) recently read an AWS blog post that addressed generative AI for the public sector. We provide guidance on how to manage operational AI workloads, how to keep them operational, and how to ensure reliable value creation.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MAY 3, 2024

A not so long time ago (April), in a galaxy nearby (ours), the Jedi Council (GAO) issued a first-of-its-kind estimate of fraud across federal programs and operations. Happy early Star Wars Day! We estimated that the federal government could lose.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sean Hughes, Massachusetts assistant secretary for technology, security and operations, estimated the commonwealth is about halfway through migrating its employees into a single-sign-on portal where they can access all required government…

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

Today, it can take days or weeks for an organization to recover from cyber incidents and resume operations. State and local government agencies need a clear plan that delivers business continuity, speeds recovery time and…

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JULY 30, 2024

Earlier this month, a software update from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused Microsoft Windows operating systems to crash—resulting in potentially the largest IT outage in history. Disruptions were widespread. Around the world, businesses and.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Addressing operational technology and mission partner environment: The DoD still needs to tackle the challenges of implementing zero trust in the operational technology and mission partner environments, and is looking to AWS and AWS Partners for solutions to simplify these complex areas.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), as defined by Gartner, “combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event… But there’s another way states can get a grip on AI: through AIOps. What Is AIOps?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

At the heart of DC-MPDs operations lies a well-established data pipeline that efficiently handles a vast array of information sourced from over 400 datasets derived from the Mark43 records management system. This pause mechanism enables data integrity and allows operations teams to investigate the root cause.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

GAO audits federal programs and spending to ensure that taxpayer dollars are protected and that programs operate effectively and efficiently. While we share our findings with Congress and the public through hundreds of reports and testimonies issued.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

AUGUST 15, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some food assistance programs changed their operations and. Millions of Americans—from college students to senior citizens—lack access to adequate, nutritious foods every year.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

In our emergency operations center, we had the city map on a screen and could see where every EMS vehicle was located,” says Cedric Palmisano, deputy chief of special operations and logistics for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.

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