Tag: government

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

By migrating their electronic banking system to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Post Bank reduced application deployment time from 2 hours to only 10 minutes, decreased CPU utilization by 40 percent, and dramatically improved system reliability—all while maintaining full compliance with Poland’s stringent financial regulations. This transformation story demonstrates how financial institutions can use AWS Cloud technology to become more agile and efficient without compromising security or regulatory compliance.

Government agencies struggle to modernize citizen experiences while optimizing resources, reducing costs, and enhancing security. Siloed systems, untenable volumes, reduced staff, and manual workflows create an urgent need to modernize the citizen experience and drive efficiencies by using generative AI, agentic AI, automation, and analytics—while paying only for what you use. Amazon Connect—the AWS AI-powered, comprehensive contact center as a service (CCaaS) application—transforms government contact centers of all sizes into modern, efficient, and secure service delivery hubs providing enhanced experiences. Read this post to learn more.

The use of high performance computing (HPC) in federal agencies is evolving rapidly, and AWS is offering an innovative new workshop designed specifically for public sector requirements. The AWS Department of Defense (DoD) HPC Center of Excellence (CoE) has launched the HPC for Public Sector workshop, a comprehensive training program that addresses the unique challenges faced by federal organizations in deploying HPC workloads to the cloud.

In this post, we explore how Singapore’s Housing & Development Board (HDB) worked with AWS Professional Services to design and build the ARK data lakehouse on AWS, detailing the data strategy, platform architecture, and the benefits realized.

AWS has updated its conformance packs that validate security configurations against the Australian Government’s Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential Eight cybersecurity strategies. Read this post to learn more.

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.

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.

In this post, we explore how Service NSW used AWS services to optimize its backup strategies while maintaining strict compliance requirements. By moving from a straightforward turnkey solution to a sophisticated, tiered approach, Service NSW achieved significant cost savings while enhancing its disaster recovery capabilities. The organization’s innovative use of automation for backup testing sets a new standard for efficient backup validation in large-scale database environments.