AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "Three ways government agencies can modernize with IDP powered by AWS"

Three ways government agencies can modernize with IDP powered by AWS

As talent shortages grow, job vacancies are commonplace across governmental agencies. Add the challenge of retaining existing talent and government agencies face a perfect storm. Read this blog post to learn how a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP) can help agencies accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount.

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "Recapping the top announcements for K12 education from AWS re:Invent 2023"

Recapping the top announcements for K12 education from AWS re:Invent 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience. 

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "Improve road safety by analyzing traffic patterns with no-code ML using Amazon SageMaker Canvas"

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

To improve safety and convenience, transportation agencies amass a substantial volume of data. However, these organizations encounter challenges in data accuracy validation due to issues related to data quality and occasional missing information. With the incorporation of new artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities from Amazon Web Services (AWS), they can take advantage of no-code solutions to identify and address data gaps.

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region"

AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of AWS Marketplace in the AWS Secret Region, an expansion of the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community (ICMP) program. With this announcement, intelligence community customers now have access to 30 ISVs and 170 products in the AWS Secret Region, an air-gapped cloud accredited to support workloads up to the Secret US security classification level.

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "AWS commits additional $20M to tackle health equity disparities through cloud technology"

AWS commits additional $20M to tackle health equity disparities through cloud technology

In 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS Health Equity Initiative as a three-year, $40 million commitment to help solve gaps in health equity. Today, AWS is announcing an additional $20 million in funding for the program, bringing the company’s total commitment to $60 million in cloud credits and technical expertise. Read this post to learn more.

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI"

Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

Climate risk consists of transition risk and physical risk. Transition risk represents regulatory and market-based risks while physical climate risk covers climate-related earth processes and its effects on the built and natural environment. In this blog post, we highlight how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enrich your asset portfolio with open climate data hosted in AWS.

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "How transit agencies can use AWS to improve safety and passenger experience"

How transit agencies can use AWS to improve safety and passenger experience

Fleet managers can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ingest and analyze fleet driver data. In this post, we share how a large public transit agency in the United States worked with AWS to create a proof-of-concept (POC) to analyze operator behavior and improve its visibility of sudden acceleration-based events.

Democratizing generative AI to inspire diverse innovation: Insights from AWS executive Dave Levy

Dave Levy, vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector (WWPS), is an inspirational trailblazer who has devoted his career to helping customers realize technology’s potential for transforming their organizations and fulfilling their missions. In the fourth episode of AWS Behind the Cloud, I sat down with Dave

Building hybrid satellite imagery processing pipelines in AWS

Building hybrid satellite imagery processing pipelines in AWS

In this blog post, learn how companies operating in AWS can design architectures that maximize flexibility so they can support both cloud and on-premises deployment use cases for their satellite imagery processing workloads with minimal modifications. 

AWS branded background with text overlay that says "The U.S. Air Force improves aircraft readiness with AI and predictive maintenance solutions"

The U.S. Air Force improves aircraft readiness with AI and predictive maintenance solutions

The US Air Force (USAF) is responsible for more than 5,400 aircraft with an average age of 28 years. Read this blog post to learn how USAF employs predictive maintenance solutions, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), to predict when aircraft need to be grounded for repairs or updates, which helps maintain mission readiness while lowering maintenance costs.