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Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

From cloud sprawl to strategic success: Cornell University's cloud service transformation

From cloud sprawl to strategic success: Cornell University’s cloud service transformation

Within a decade of moving to the cloud, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was managing 260 accounts—160 of them on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—at an annual spend of $4 million. As part of what they called a “cloudification initiative,” there had been a major push in the early days to capitalize on opportunities to […]

Enabling resilient hybrid edge architectures with AWS

Enabling resilient hybrid edge architectures with AWS

Organizations operating in austere environments require robust, resilient architectures that maintain operations regardless of connectivity status. This post explores how to implement and deploy resilient hybrid edge architectures using Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a focus on network resilience, data synchronization, security, and configuration management. We’ll cover best practices for deploying and managing hybrid architectures […]

Modernizing evidence management in Salesforce public sector solutions with Amazon S3

Modernizing evidence management in Salesforce public sector solutions with Amazon S3

Public sector agencies manage increasing volumes of digital evidence within casework, inspections, investigations, and enforcement operations. This evidence often includes large unstructured files such as body camera footage, surveillance video, photographs, audio interviews, and document scans. Although Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS) provides a structured case management and chain-of-custody framework, storing high-volume evidence directly inside […]

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How NIH scientists unlocked cardiovascular disease insights using AWS

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently uncovered how a structure known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which transports “bad” cholesterol through the bloodstream, interacts with its receptor molecule to enter cells—information that has eluded researchers for decades. The findings could lead to more personalized treatments for cardiovascular disease and were enabled by cutting-edge high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure from AWS. Read this post to learn more.

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Integrate AI-powered coding assistance in secure environments using Continue and Amazon Bedrock

Organizations adopting modern software development activities continue to embrace the advantages of AI and large language models (LLMs), maximizing the productivity of developers. Amazon Q Developer provides you with an AI coding companion that delivers direct access for developers to the AI companion within the integrated development environment (IDE). In this post, we walk you through an example you can use leveraging the power of Amazon Bedrock to provide a coding assistant in your IDE.

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High-level architecture and components for a generative AI-based RAG solution

In this post, we walk through a step-by-step guide to building your own Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution on AWS, complete with open-source instructions and best practices. Learn how to harness the same technological foundations that power enterprise-grade proposal automation while maintaining security, compliance, and content quality.

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Hosting regulated U.S. State and Local Government Workloads in AWS

U.S. State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides U.S. SLG customers with an approach to meet compliance needs by using AWS GovCloud (US) regions or AWS U.S. commercial regions. In this post, we will explain how some U.S. SLG regulated workloads can be hosted in the AWS U.S. commercial regions.

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How to safeguard healthcare data privacy using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

As more and more healthcare companies use their data to remain competitive, protecting patient data is as critical than ever. With increasing adoption of AI/ML models in healthcare, making sure that these technologies comply with privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR has become a top priority. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides unified access to a diverse selection of high-performance foundation models from industry-leading AI companies. In this post, we walk you through the importance of healthcare data privacy and how to use Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to safeguard sensitive information in AI-driven healthcare solutions.

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AWS accelerates digital public infrastructure adoption with automation

In this post, we explore how AWS enables the automation of deploying a DPI-based solution stack. We highlight Sunbird RC (Registry and Credentials) as a real-world digital public goods (DPG) building block. The following example provides an overview and execution of the packaging available in the Sunbird community GitHub repository for provisioning required AWS services and deploying Sunbird RC services.

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Govplace helps NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis scale on demand and reduce research costs on AWS

As the primary agency of the US government responsible for biomedical and public health research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is one of the leading medical research centers in the world. The NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) is tasked with helping NIH prioritize its research. OPA wanted to find a better way to optimize its cloud costs as its analytical research demands continued to grow. That need led OPA to work with AWS Partner Govplace, a systems integrator and solution provider for the public sector. Read this post to learn more about how OPA reduced research costs and scaled on demand.