AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: AWS Marketplace
Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity’s Assemblyline brings powerful malware analysis to AWS Marketplace
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) was established in 2018 under Canada’s National Cyber Security Strategy. The Cyber Centre is the nation’s centralized source for expert cybersecurity advice, services, and support. Its crucial mission involves protecting Canada’s critical cyber assets, including federal government systems. One of the Cyber Centre’s notable innovations is Assemblyline, an open source malware detection and analysis tool available to the cybersecurity community and now others on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
Whose contract is it anyway? How AWS Marketplace works
IT marketplaces offer a new way of approaching software procurement. In the case of AWS Marketplace, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not a software reseller but the marketplace provider. And software vendors, channel partners, and professional services providers are all sellers within AWS Marketplace. Read this post to learn more about how AWS Marketplace contracts work.
The AWS approach to accelerating innovation and procurement with state agencies
Despite a common misconception about government, state agencies regularly innovate on behalf of their constituents. In this post, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts share examples of innovation from New Mexico and North Carolina. We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads.
The Department of the Navy adds AWS Marketplace to its Enterprise Software Licensing program
The Department of the Navy (DoN) modified its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Organizations streamlined access to AWS Partners solutions available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace provides Navy and Marine Corps Organization access to commercial software and services from more than 4,000 trusted providers – accelerating procurement and modernization, improving controls and visibility, and optimizing IT spend.
Five need-to-know facts about using the AWS Cloud for K12 cyber-resiliency
K12 leaders need tangible solutions and tactics for improving their school’s or district’s cyber-resilience in the coming school year, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to supporting schools and districts as they enhance the cybersecurity of their networks. Recently, AWS joined the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Education—among other leaders in the government and education community—to commit to improving the cybersecurity resilience of K12 education. As part of this commitment, AWS created the K12 Cyber Grant Program, offering up to $20 million in AWS Promotional Credits to both new and existing K12 customers.
How EdTech and workforce development companies drive business success through AWS Marketplace
Recognizing the value that public sector and education buyers can realize through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, an increasing number of education technology (EdTech) and workforce development companies are listing their products there. In this post, we feature some of our top education and workforce sellers and highlight how listing on AWS Marketplace has positively impacted their business growth and goals.
AWS Marketplace myth busting for state and local government agencies
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace is a leading software as a service (SaaS) marketplace that houses thousands of third-party software, data, and services that run on AWS. Despite the rapid growth of software marketplace usage in recent years, some state and local government (SLG) purchasers are holding back. This post debunks the most common myths keeping SLG agencies from embracing software marketplaces.
Creating AWS CloudFormation templates for AWS Ground Station DigIF workloads
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station has many different parameters and options to choose from when creating a contact and setting up data delivery. For this reason, it is advised that infrastructure as code (IaC) is used. This post is the first of a two-part tutorial that provides an overview of the resources required to create AWS CloudFormation templates for Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) workloads, using AWS Ground Station to transmit data between the satellite and AWS Cloud environment.
Best practices for project management in the AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. These principles drive successful service launches, new solutions, and workload migrations. Read this blog post to learn about the project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.
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.