AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Public Sector

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A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWS

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

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Building resilient public sector cloud services: Why it’s time to update your strategy

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.

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Breaking down healthcare’s walls with agentic AI

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.

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Maximizing EC2 Spot Instance reliability for Nextflow on AWS Batch with Memory Machine Batch

AWS partners with providers of innovative solutions such as MemVerge, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner, whose Memory Machine Batch (MMBatch) technology complements AWS Batch by providing advanced checkpointing capabilities for EC2 Spot Instances. In this post, we look at how MemVerge’s technology can overcome the challenges of interrupted pipelines by enabling pipelines that were interrupted mid task to start from where they left off, regardless of Spot Instance reclaims. We’ll also show how MemVerge’s Batch Viewer and proven best practices empower researchers to visualize their workloads, identify bottlenecks, and apply smart strategies that make their pipelines more efficient, resilient, and cloud-optimized.

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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.

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How Poland’s Post Bank accelerated digital transformation while maintaining regulatory compliance on AWS

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.

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Democratizing quantum resources: University of Michigan and AWS collaborate on a remote access quantum testbed

The University of Michigan is breaking new ground in quantum technology accessibility through an innovative collaboration with AWS. This partnership aims to transform the university’s QREAL (Quantum Receiver Enhanced by Adaptive Learning) platform funded by the National Science Foundation into a cloud-accessible quantum testbed. Read this post to learn more.

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Build next-gen AI agents: AWS empowers partners with AWS Partner Transformation Program’s new agentic AI module for public sector

The AI revolution has entered an exhilarating new phase, and AWS is empowering partners to lead this transformation. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our new agentic AI module within the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP), designed to accelerate partners’ capabilities in building autonomous AI solutions. This strategic initiative comes at a crucial time, as number of enterprise applications incorporating agentic AI continues to surge, presenting unprecedented opportunities for innovation in the public sector and beyond.

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Securing Amazon Q Business Web Experiences with AWS Amplify and AWS WAF

Public sector agencies often need to provide information and services to citizens without needing authentication. At the same time, these agencies must make sure that their digital services remain secure, compliant, and reliable. Amazon Q Business embedded web experiences, when integrated with AWS Amplify, offer a powerful solution for delivering AI-powered conversational interfaces to unauthenticated users while maintaining robust security controls. This post explores how public sector organizations can use Amazon Q Business anonymous web experiences within AWS Amplify applications to enhance citizen services while implementing security best practices.