Supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, the possibilities of digital transformation are growing by the day. With the power of voice, open data, machine learning, and much more, public sector organizations can improve the lives of citizens at a faster pace. By prioritizing innovation and resiliency, organizations can provide cost-effective and accessible citizen services to reach more people and drive positive change nationwide faster.
What's new
How a cyberattack changed Hackney Council’s relationship with technology overnight
In October 2020, Hackney Council suffered a serious cyberattack; only systems hosted in their modern cloud infrastructure remained unaffected. Hear how they responded to the incident by working at extreme pace and adopting a cloud, unless policy to restore services for Hackney’s residents and businesses as quickly as possible.
New Performance Dashboard on AWS makes delivering open, responsive government, simple
Performance Dashboard on AWS uses AWS CloudFormation templates, which automatically provision the necessary cloud resources. This open-source cloud solution offers flexible options for uploading your data: automatically via a standard API or manually uploading data files through the performance dashboard user interface.
Innovation for life: cities powered by the cloud
The public sector needs to be on the front line of innovation to enable citizens to access real-time information online, across multiple digital platforms, to empower the necessary technology resources to find new solutions, quickly and efficiently.
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to rethink document automation and extract insights
Even though digital transformation made strides in automating many processes, automating document management and entry has not been done until recently. The maturing of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ready-made services that organizations can use, not only to automate data entry work but also to apply intelligence into the business process.
Benefits
Scale
Public services built on the cloud can withstand any surges in demand. With the cloud, resources scale up or down as needed, with customers only paying for what they use. This eBook highlights how organisations around the world are using AWS to drive their public services at scale.
Security
Whether you’re new to the cloud or all-in on AWS, improve the security for your infrastructure, systems, and data by becoming brilliant with the basics of AWS security. Join AWS experts as they walk you through AWS’s foundational security concepts and tools to help you adopt cyberhygiene best practices and mitigate a variety of security risks, including addressing ransomware attacks.
Migrate and modernize to accelerate innovation
Migrating and modernizing with AWS can help you drive the sustainable transformation you need to win in today’s hyper-competitive business world. See how AWS can help you reduce costs, boost productivity, and accelerate innovation.
Benelux public sector industry segments
Government
Delivering high-availability cloud technology with the security and reliability governments need across all classification levels: Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret.
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Education
As you explore ways to shift to remote learning and working, AWS has resources to help you today.
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Nonprofits
Learn more about how nonprofits and non-government organisations (NGOs) are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing issues.
Healthcare
Unlock, connect, and transform data into actionable insights that improve patient outcomes.
AWS EdStart
The AWS EdStart program provides EdTech startups with resources to quickly get started on AWS, including AWS Promotional Credit, access to training, and support. AWS EdStart is a global community of like-minded people and companies that are solving complex educational problems.
Researcher program/Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) framework
Over 10,000 institutions can now directly consume AWS without the need for public procurement. They can gain a number of benefits specifically tailored to cloud adoption.
Customer case studies
Customers across Benelux are already using AWS to scale and innovate.
Getting started
AWS re/Start
Preparing unemployed and underemployed individuals for cloud careers through classroom-based training. AWS re/Start is a full-time, classroom-based skills development and training program that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud and connects them to potential employers. A technology background is not required to apply.
Adopting the best practices for modern application development
Learn about characteristics of modern applications, including creating a culture of ownership, designing with a microservices architectural pattern, automating your release process with continuous delivery pipelines, and making security everyone's responsibility.
Analytics and data lakes
AWS gives you the broadest and deepest portfolio of purpose-built analytics services optimized for your unique analytics use cases. These services are all designed to be the best in class, which means you never have to compromise on performance, scale, or cost when using them.
Migrate with AWS
You can migrate any workloa–applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers–and even entire data centers from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other cloud to AWS. Every step along the way, you can leverage AWS’s years of experience to build your organizational, operational, and technical capabilities so that you can gain business benefits faster.
AWS Partners
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for AWS. It is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.
Why become an APN Partner?
As an APN Partner, you will receive business, technical, sales, and marketing resources to help enable you to grow your business and better support your customers. Join the APN and take advantage of numerous APN Partner programs to differentiate your business and connect with customers on AWS. Learn more about the benefits of being an APN Partner below.
If you are an APN Partner who does business with government, education, or nonprofit organizations, learn more about the benefits of becoming an AWS Public Sector Partner.
Why work with an APN Public Sector Partner?
APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of all the business benefits that AWS has to offer. With their deep expertise on AWS, APN Public Sector Partners are uniquely positioned to help your organization at any stage of your cloud adoption journey, and to help you achieve your business objectives. Find an APN Public Sector Partner today.
AWS Public Sector Competency Partners
The APN features best-of-breed technology providers and consulting partners that offer public sector organizations a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.
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Fix This podcast
Leaders from around the globe share how they use technology to fix some of the world’s most pressing issues in our bi-weekly public sector podcast, Fix This.
AWS Public Sector blog
Our blog for the worldwide public sector contains all the latest news and updates on cloud innovation.
AWS Training and Certification
Learn from AWS experts, virtually. Advance your skills and knowledge quickly. Build your future today in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Security Blog
With a sharp focus on all things cloud security, there’s no better place to get the latest news, guidance, and more.
Verified
Verified is our new video series that showcases conversations with global security leaders, focusing on their diverse experiences around important security topics.
AWS Whitepapers & Guides
Expand your knowledge of the cloud with AWS technical content authored by AWS and the AWS community, including technical whitepapers, technical guides, reference material, and reference architecture diagrams.