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An incident response playbook for satellite operations on AWS (Part-1): Detection and forensic readiness

An incident response playbook for satellite operations on AWS (Part-1): Detection and forensic readiness

In this post, the first in a two-part series, we focus on the detection and forensic readiness side of satellite IR. This post walks through instrumenting your ground segment with Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services and AWS Ground Station so that threats surface before they cause damage, and forensic data is already flowing when an incident occurs.

An incident response playbook for satellite operations on AWS (Part-2): Automated response and recovery

An incident response playbook for satellite operations on AWS (Part-2): Automated response and recovery

This blog covers what to do when those detections fire. Satellite incident response (IR) must account for constraints that ground-based systems never face: containment actions that wait for the next orbital pass, decisions that trade mission continuity against security, and recovery procedures where the compromised endpoint cannot be physically accessed. It walks through containment, eradication, recovery, automated runbooks, and tabletop exercises designed for satellite operations teams.

Solving federal log retention requirements with AWS account-level subscription filters

Solving federal log retention requirements with AWS account-level subscription filters

Learn how the Login.gov team implemented a robust long-term log retention system that solved multiple architectural challenges while using Amazon Web Services (AWS) account-level subscription filters to provide capabilities that other approaches couldn’t match.

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AWS demonstrates resilient and secure edge-to-cloud at Department of Defense exercise

The US Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly relies on commercial efforts to adopt and integrate novel and emerging technologies that are critical for mission success. The modern defense landscape evolves rapidly, and industry collaboration is a key component of success. AWS has risen to the challenge to fulfill this commercial- and collaborative-focused approach to advancing military innovation. Most recently, AWS did so through its participation in the Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) series of events with partner General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT),

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Strengthen federal space resilience with AWS Ground Station

In this post, we explore how AWS Ground Station public sector organizations with on-demand access to AWS-managed antennas that are available as shared or dedicated resources, scaling to the unique requirements of the mission. By adding resource capacity and redundancy with AWS-managed antenna systems, government customers can rapidly increase, differentiate, and distribute their ground segment capabilities. This enables a more flexible and resilient space architecture that can dynamically adapt to changing mission demands.

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Near real-time dashboards from a source database to a cloud data warehouse on AWS

Organizations require solutions for real time or near real time dashboards that can be provided to their customers without impacting their database performance or service level agreements (SLAs) to their end users. In this post, we showcase the integration of Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities to present an end-to-end architecture for this data flow.

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UNSW students build an all-electric race car with AWS

In 2023, the students from Redback Racing at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) wove together their many disciplines of engineering prowess to create their latest cars: RB23 and RB21-D. After developing and going live with their real-time telemetry system on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the team has placed as the highest-ranking Australian squad in the electric vehicle (EV) division of the Australasia Formula SAE competition, placing second overall. Read this post to learn more.

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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust digitizes and improves patient experience with AWS

Like many healthcare providers, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, which manages two major hospitals and serves a population of more than one million, has operated with legacy technology that relies heavily on phone calls and manual processes for contacting patients. Recognizing an opportunity to modernize, the Trust linked up with IBM Consulting for an innovative pilot project to digitize patient engagement channels using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read this post to learn more.