AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Announcements

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Transforming nonprofit impact: Highlights from the AWS Imagine Conferences in London and Sydney

In this post, we explore some of the stories shared by public sector innovators at the AWS Imagine for Nonprofits conferences in London and Sydney, which illustrate the transformative power of cloud technology when applied thoughtfully to address significant challenges and advance mission delivery.

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66 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

Through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program, customers are making over 300 PB of high-value, cloud-optimized data available for public use. All publicly available datasets can be found in the Registry of Open Data on AWS and are now also discoverable on Exchange. This quarter, AWS released 66 new or updated datasets. Read this post to learn more.

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AWS and MortarCAPS: A game-changing partnership set to revolutionize data management in post-secondary education

The post-secondary education sector is about to experience a seismic shift in how it manages data. In a landmark announcement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MortarCAPS have revealed a strategic partnership that promises to transform the way that tertiary education institutions handle information, support students, and drive innovation.

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AWS LLM League sparks AI innovation at AWS Summit Washington, DC 2025

Recently, the AWS Large Language Model (LLM) League took center stage at the AWS Summit Washington, DC 2025, captivating attendees with its hands-on approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). Read this post to learn more.

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Shield AI and AWS collaborate to deliver mission autonomy at fleet scale

This significant growth in military unmanned aerial vehicles, which serve as a proxy for the broader autonomous systems market, underscores the urgent need for scalable, secure, and efficient software deployment solutions. As the number of autonomous platforms increases, so does the complexity of managing their software systems. In response to this growing challenge, Shield AI and AWS have collaborated and successfully demonstrated a scalable architecture and proof of concept (PoC) that addresses challenges often seen when deploying autonomy software and machine learning algorithms onto autonomous systems.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.