AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence

Belgium's cloud strategy transforms tax compliance

Belgium’s cloud strategy transforms tax compliance

This is a guest post from the Belgian Ministry of Finance, AWS customer The Belgian Ministry of Finance has successfully deployed a cost-effective, real-time digital tax monitoring system using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The system helps fight fraud and is expected to bring an estimated €156 million additional annual value-added tax (VAT) returns. The Belgian […]

Introducing the AWS Australian public sector user guide for building responsible AI systems

Introducing the AWS Australian public sector user guide for building responsible AI systems

Australian public sector agencies can now harness AI’s transformative potential while maintaining ethical, transparent, and compliant systems with new practical guidance from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is excited to announce that the AWS Australian Public Sector User Guide: Building Responsible AI systems with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI is now available through AWS […]

Accelerating GovTech development with Kiro

Accelerating GovTech development with Kiro

Government agencies, educational institutions, and GovTech vendors face a unique challenge: delivering AI-powered applications while navigating compliance requirements, limited budgets, and legacy constraints. A single accessibility remediation cycle can cost $50,000 or more. Audit preparation takes weeks. Security reviews delay citizen services by months. Small IT teams struggle to maintain expertise across Federal Risk and […]

AI, activism, and impact: What to expect at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026

AI, activism, and impact: What to expect at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026

Can you imagine what’s possible when nonprofit organizations are empowered to harness today’s most advanced technology on behalf of people and the planet? On March 19, nonprofit leaders, technologists, and changemakers will gather at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to celebrate a decade of impact and explore what’s next at the 10th […]

AWS re:Invent 2025 recap for government agencies

AWS re:Invent 2025 recap for government agencies

At AWS re:Invent 2025, which took place last December in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled an array of cutting-edge innovations during a week of keynotes, innovation talks, breakout sessions, product launches, interactive demos, and networking opportunities. For stakeholders in the public sector, the conference offered a whole host of important announcements, compelling themes, […]

How AI technologies transform national meteorological services delivery

Innovative AI technologies can drive a profound transformation in meteorological services as this new Amazon Web Services (AWS) short report describes. AI, generative AI, and agentic AI offer opportunities to transform meteorological services and their business models. The new methods complement traditional physics-based Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. They collect and analyze vast datasets rapidly. […]

Amplifying builder impact: How Kiro transformed cloud operations and security at Loyola Marymount University

How long would it take to update the Python runtime versions across 500 AWS Lambda functions running across an organization’s cloud environment? For the two-person cloud team at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), it used to take two months to inventory, scan, remediate, test, validate, and push to production. Today, it takes just half a day […]

Anne Arundel County integrates generative AI into case management to empower staff and improve citizen services

Anne Arundel County integrates generative AI into case management to empower staff and improve citizen services

Every day, the Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Office of Community Engagement and Constituent Services receives hundreds of resident concerns by phone, online, and even in handwritten letters. These aren’t routine inquiries but complex problems, such as zoning disputes, permitting questions, and other issues that residents have escalated to the highest levels of county government. Staff […]

How government agencies can transform cybersecurity operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

How government agencies can transform cybersecurity operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Government agencies are facing a cybersecurity challenge. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems generate thousands of alerts on a daily basis, overwhelming security operations center (SOC) analysts who spend countless hours manually investigating incidents. Studies show that 70% of alerts turn out to be false positives. This reactive approach creates critical vulnerabilities: alert […]