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How to travel safely based on crime patterns using AWS services

Walking in urban areas, especially at night, can be intimidating. Surveys show that 40% of Americans, the highest in three decades, say they are afraid to walk alone at night, and two-thirds avoid certain activities due to fear of crime. Vulnerable groups, including women and children, are affected even more. Similar studies across European countries […]

Amplifying builder impact: How Kiro transformed cloud operations and security at Loyola Marymount University

How long would it take to update the Python runtime versions across 500 AWS Lambda functions running across an organization’s cloud environment? For the two-person cloud team at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), it used to take two months to inventory, scan, remediate, test, validate, and push to production. Today, it takes just half a day […]

Anne Arundel County integrates generative AI into case management to empower staff and improve citizen services

Anne Arundel County integrates generative AI into case management to empower staff and improve citizen services

Every day, the Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Office of Community Engagement and Constituent Services receives hundreds of resident concerns by phone, online, and even in handwritten letters. These aren’t routine inquiries but complex problems, such as zoning disputes, permitting questions, and other issues that residents have escalated to the highest levels of county government. Staff […]

CMS Saves $3.5M Annually by Modernizing Open Payments System on AWS

CMS Saves $3.5M Annually by Modernizing Open Payments System on AWS

Established by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2010 and expanded by the SUPPORT Act of 2018, the Open Payments program creates public transparency around financial relationships between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. When faced with aging infrastructure and rising costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needed to modernize the statutorily mandated […]

How government agencies can transform cybersecurity operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

How government agencies can transform cybersecurity operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Government agencies are facing a cybersecurity challenge. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems generate thousands of alerts on a daily basis, overwhelming security operations center (SOC) analysts who spend countless hours manually investigating incidents. Studies show that 70% of alerts turn out to be false positives. This reactive approach creates critical vulnerabilities: alert […]

Four ways Amazon Quick Suite can help State Medicaid Agency APD authors

Four ways Amazon Quick Suite can help State Medicaid Agency APD authors

What if state Medicaid agencies could streamline their federal funding requests and avoid costly delays that put critical IT modernization projects at risk? An Advance Planning Document (APD) is the formal mechanism through which states request federal funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support Medicaid technology projects. These complex documents […]

Too rare for care How AI is helping solve the rare disease paradox

Too rare for care: How AI is helping solve the rare disease paradox

With a smartphone, mGene’s AI technology can analyze facial features to identify subtle indications of genetic syndromes It’s one of medicine’s tragic paradoxes that, collectively, rare diseases have significant impact on human health. The World Health Organization defines conditions affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 people as rare, and it’s estimated that over 300 million […]

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Building a Scalable and Secure FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Environment: Socure’s Proven Strategies with AWS and Complementary Tools

In this blog post, we’ll delve into Socure’s journey of building a FedRAMP-compliant cloud infrastructure from the ground up that uses a comprehensive suite of AWS services, enhanced by key third-party tools such as Sumo Logic, Istio, Terraform, and Trend Micro, to create a modern, secure, scalable, and compliant cloud infrastructure architecture right from Day 1.

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Building a multilingual contact center for Medicaid agencies on AWS

One of the biggest constraints in providing equitable access to care is the language barrier between providers and the patients they serve. For Medicaid agency call centers, there aren’t enough agents to support communication in all the languages requested by a state government. Some states want to support nearly 20 languages in the call center […]