Tag: AWS Public Sector

In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.

This blog explores how the University of Sheffield uses AWS Partner RONIN Core and RONIN Isolate solutions to deliver a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) built on AWS infrastructure, enabling secure research and collaboration with sensitive data through the university’s Data Connect service. Secure and compliant infrastructure is essential for sensitive research. Many research institutions use a research Landing Zone to build Secure Research Environments (SRE) that provide the foundational compliance infrastructure—meeting standards like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CMMC—upon which TREs like RONIN can build secure research workflows.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Wiz are excited to share that Wiz for Government has achieved a FedRAMP High authorization. This milestone reinforces Wiz’s commitment to working with AWS and helping U.S. public sector organizations and partners securely manage their environments from code to cloud to runtime. Read this post to learn more.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the cohort of 67 startups from Australia, India, and Japan selected for the AWS Space Accelerator: APJ 2025 program. These startups will receive support from AWS and partner organizations to accelerate their growth and innovation in the space technology sector. Read this post to learn more.

To address the global challenge of managing street animal populations, Humane World for Animals has developed Humane World Apps, a comprehensive global data management tool designed to improve dog and cat welfare programs by managing spay and neuter, mass vaccination, and access to care operations. With support from the AWS Imagine Grant—a public grant program that provides both cash and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credit funding to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions—Humane World Apps is transforming how large-scale animal welfare programs operate worldwide.

Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The IMF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. In September 2024, the IMF launched Myelo—an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant built using AWS and Max.AI, developed by ZS Associates. This blog post highlights Myelo’s capabilities to provide myeloma patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals a trustworthy, round-the-clock source of information that is accessible from anywhere in the world, grounded in empathy, and can communicate in multiple languages.

According to the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative, approximately 850 million people globally don’t have official identification. This prevents citizens from access to essential services including healthcare, education, and social benefits. To address these challenges, Atos and AWS have collaborated on an innovative cloud-based digital identity system using the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), making these systems more accessible, secure, and scalable than ever before.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced an innovative OneGov agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training for federal agencies. In alignment with this announcement are solutions to reduce waste and improve efficiency. To help organizations accelerate these initiatives and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA), this guide outlines practical strategies for optimizing technology spend while improving operational efficiency

Our public sector customers rely on the resilience of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud so they can deliver on their critical missions. In the face of growing risks of cyberattacks and environmental threats, like floods or earthquakes, and physical risks, like equipment failures, public sector leaders have an increasingly complex job to do. And yet, citizens expect government services like elections or passport renewal to work as efficiently and reliably as the online commercial platforms they use.

AWS has developed a comprehensive suite of agentic AI solutions that are reshaping how healthcare organizations approach patient care, operational efficiency, and system resilience. AWS meets customers wherever they are on their agentic AI journey, offering everything from ready-to-deploy agents to tools for building sophisticated custom solutions. Unlike traditional AI that simply responds to prompts, these agentic AI solutions can reason, plan, and take autonomous actions to accomplish complex healthcare goals with minimal human oversight. Read this post to learn more.