AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Announcements
New AWS WickrGov offerings to enable secure, compliant communication on multiple devices
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing two new AWS WickrGov offerings designed to help customers rapidly deploy secure communications capabilities across their organizations.
Highlights from the 2025 AWS Summit Washington, DC keynote
Cloud infrastructure expansion, agentic AI advancement, and national security initiatives took center stage today during the keynote of the AWS Summit Washington, DC. The annual gathering in the nation’s capital showcased the continued commitment of AWS to public sector innovation and digital transformation.
AWS expands its support of ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health performers
AWS provides innovative health researchers with the agility, adaptivity, and resilience they need to accelerate their research. Because of this, AWS expanded the scope of its commitment to Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Sprint for Women’s Health performers to include its Spark funding track awardees. These awardees focus on transformative early-stage research in women’s health.
Amazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025
Amazon today announced it will launch its second Secret Cloud Region in 2025. The new AWS Secret-West Region will be accredited to support workloads up to the U.S. Secret classification level. With two regions accredited at the Secret level, defense and national security customers and partners can deploy multi-Region architectures, achieving even higher levels of resiliency and availability essential to their critical missions and enabling AI innovation.
A year of progress: AWS update on the $50 Million Generative AI Impact Initiative for public sector
Last year, AWS launched the AWS Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Initiative, a two-year, $50 million investment designed to help public sector organizations accelerate innovation using AWS generative AI services. Today, we’re excited to share the remarkable progress we’ve made and highlight how organizations are utilizing AWS technologies to transform operations and deliver better outcomes for the communities they serve.
AWS HealthLake launches in the EU: Unlocking the future of interoperability and FHIR-based innovation
We’re excited to announce the expansion of AWS HealthLake to the EU (Dublin) Region, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to supporting healthcare organizations across the European Union (EU). Read this post to learn more.
AWS Health Data & AI Day Dublin 2025: EHDS implementation and healthcare innovation
On June 24, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will welcome healthcare professionals to our Dublin offices for AWS Health Data & AI Day—a full-day event focused on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The event will bring together healthcare leaders, technical experts, and innovators to explore how secure, standardized, and interoperable data sharing can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes across Europe.
ZTAG-I, a reference zero trust architecture for the US federal government
In this blog, we introduce AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government – Integrated (ZTAG-I), a reference architecture that aligns with federal zero trust guidance. ZTAG-I accelerates adoption of zero trust architecture by providing a tested example of a fully integrated technology stack that solves key challenges that arise when adopting zero trust.
AWS recognized by GovRAMP
We are pleased to announce that AWS is now listed on the GovRAMP webpage under the Federal JAB Attestation category for both AWS GovCloud (US) (High) and AWS US East/West (Moderate) regions. Read this post to learn more.
AWS Professional Services collaborates with NOAA and GAMA-1 Technologies to expand NESDIS Common Cloud Framework capabilities
AWS Professional Services has partnered with the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), alongside GAMA-1 Technologies to broaden the scope and capabilities of the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). This work supports NOAA’s ability to ingest, manage, process, and disseminate critical environmental data. Read this post to learn more.