AWS Public Sector Blog

CTrees is a nonprofit organization on a mission to track carbon in every living tree on Earth to accelerate natural climate solutions. In 2024, CTrees secured the AWS Imagine Grant, combining cash funding and cloud credits to enhance the organization’s flagship Jurisdictional monitor, report, and verify (JMRV) tool. This free, open data platform provides precise annual measurements of carbon stocks, forest area, emissions, and land use activities—revolutionizing how governments and organizations track climate policy progress and develop jurisdictional carbon credit programs.

As governments worldwide seek to modernize their services, secure and scalable digital identity systems are becoming essential infrastructure. Through a combination of AWS Outposts, digital identity solutions like Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), and innovative architectures that couple cloud capabilities with data residency requirements, governments can build digital identity systems that are reliable, resilient, and ready for the future. Read this post to learn more.

In this post, we explore how Amazon Q Business is transforming government organizations through secure, AI-powered assistance across various use cases—from public records management to workforce development. Its robust security features, compliance standards, and data privacy controls make it an ideal solution for government entities undergoing digital transformation.

For students to succeed, they need to feel safe, supported, and ready to learn. Yet many schools still rely on fragmented or outdated processes to support student health and safety. Kokomo24/7, an education technology (EdTech) company, provides wrap-around health and safety platforms powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that meet the needs of an individual school or an entire school district. Read this post to learn more.

Organizations are modernizing their incident response by using AWS capabilities alongside chat-based collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. This shift helps streamline monitoring, enabling centralized awareness, real-time collaboration, and faster threat detection and mitigation. In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Q Developer in chat applications transforms incident response and team coordination, with practical examples using Slack integration.

In modern cloud environments, organizations need efficient ways to manage and deploy multiple microservices while maintaining individual service autonomy and deployment flexibility. This is particularly important for complex solutions like child support systems that require both reliability and agility in their deployment processes. Voyatek offers an open-source, cloud-based child support solution that leverages a microservices architecture powered by AWS. Read this post to learn more.

Meeple Srl—a technology spin-off from the University of Padua and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner—has released the Amazon Bedrock API Provider plugin for Moodle. This open source integration enables educational institutions to seamlessly connect Moodle Learning Management Systems with Amazon Bedrock, providing access to foundation models. Read this post to learn more.

University central IT teams serve as the backbone of campus-wide technology operations, managing critical infrastructure, services, and security that power both academic and administrative functions. These teams are responsible for orchestrating complex cloud environments across multiple AWS accounts, making sure they meet institutional standards while enabling innovation across the campus community.

In this post, we provide step-by-step guidance for deploying Malcolm—an open source network traffic analysis suite—natively on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), using the on-demand compute, elasticity, and scalability of AWS to eliminate traditional infrastructure overhead. This approach is particularly beneficial for cost-conscious public sector (federal, state, and local), utility, and industrial customers who require network and security monitoring to deliver on their missions.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore empowers higher education institutions to finally move beyond AI experimentation to deliver intelligent, personalized support at a campus-wide scale. Read this post to learn more.