AWS Public Sector Blog
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Failing fast: How the cloud allows you to innovate on behalf of citizens
How are startup organizations able to innovate so quickly? Without the large monetary commitment to a physical infrastructure, they can lean on the cloud to provide an environment that allows them to fail—securely and without a large upfront investment. Government agencies are depending on the cloud to do exactly the same – set up an […]
Analytics Without Limits: FINRA’s Scalable and Secure Big Data Architecture – Part 1
A guest post by John Brady, CISSP, VP Cyber Security/CISO, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) oversees more than 3,900 securities firms with approximately 640,000 brokers. Every day, we watch over nearly 6 billion shares traded in U.S. equities markets—using technology powerful enough to help detect fraud, abuse, and insider trading. In […]
MEANS: Matching Excess with Need
Two students had an idea: match excess food with people in need. Maria Rose Belding and Grant Nelson created MEANS, a nonprofit database where people list a donation, food banks and pantries get notified about food near them, and then they claim and pick up the food. MEANS is now in 49 states and territories […]
Automatically Discover, Classify, and Protect Your Data
In our post, Building a Cloud-Specific Incident Response Plan, we walked through a hypothetical incident response (IR) managed on AWS with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). With the recent launch of Amazon Macie, a new data classification and security service, you have additional controls to understand the type of data stored in […]
An Educator’s Guide to Getting Started on AWS
Bring the cloud to your campus with the help of this short checklist video, which highlights how to set up and manage your AWS accounts, as well some best practices for getting started. Whether you are looking for best practices for using the AWS Cloud, or want to take advantage of discounts earned through the […]
Login.gov on AWS: One Username and Password for Every Public User
Login.gov delivers an identity platform for public users interacting with government websites by combining maximum security standards, open source technologies, and the AWS Cloud. The goal is simple: one username and one password for every public user who interacts with government websites. To accomplish this, login.gov merges a user-focused design with the highest security standards from […]
What’s New for AWS Storage & Ingestion Services from re:Invent 2016
We hope you have had a chance to catch up on the security and compute services announced at re:Invent. Next up, we have the re:Invent updates on storage and ingestion that will benefit our public sector customers. AWS Snowball Edge – Petabyte-scale Data Transfer with On-Board Compute AWS Snowball Edge is our newest 100TB data […]
Moving Buildings Leads to the All-In Move to the Cloud for Pacific Northwest College of Art
For Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), an arts college with under 1,000 students, their move to the cloud began with a physical move. When a renovated post office became the new classroom for students and office for the team, they were faced with deciding whether to bring their servers with them or leave them […]