AWS Public Sector Blog
Tag: cloud infrastructure
How AWS helps public sector organizations successfully exit their data centers
Successfully managing a data center exit requires careful planning and experienced advisors. AWS can help you evaluate your current environment and assets, build a comprehensive business case, customize a migration strategy for your facilities, hardware, and IT workloads, maximize the value of your existing assets, and address other unique data center challenges. Read this post to learn more.
Microservices-based tax and labor systems using AWS
In Modernizing tax systems with AWS, we briefly touched upon infrastructure and application modernization using microservices and serverless architectures. We hear from multiple tax and labor agencies about their desire to move to API-based architectures and adopt new technologies. In this post, we dive deeper into these areas and discuss benefits, approaches, and best practices for building modern tax and unemployment insurance (UI) applications using microservices.
Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia digitally transforms with AWS
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia has two on-premises data centers. One was built in the 1990s – almost 30 years ago – and the second data center is close to 15 years old. In recent years, LCPS has experienced multiple unit failures, and started to feel the strain of their aging infrastructure.
AWS Snowball Edge helps warfighters complete missions at the tactical edge, and is built to handle the toughest of environments
The AWS Snowball Edge looks unassuming. Weighing in at under 50 pounds, it can be checked as a standard piece of airplane luggage, and yet, it is an extremely durable, portable piece of hardware. The AWS Snowball Edge is capable of petabyte-scale data transport with on-board storage and dense compute capabilities. It was engineered to perform in some of the world’s most extreme environments, including warzones at the tactical edge, in a secure and transportable fashion.