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Cloud 101 for the Public Sector

Getting started with AWS for government, education, nonprofits, and healthcare

Overview

Cloud computing enables public sector organizations to focus on your missions, not your IT infrastructure. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking, and databases, delivered on-demand and available in seconds with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Whether you’re a large agency or a small organization, learn how to start your cloud journey. Play our AWS Cloud Champion: Cloud 101 challenge to learn about the essentials of AWS.

That’s the magic of AWS and the cloud: You can get started on your terms, all these services are built as a pay-as-you-go model—no long-term commitments. So you can think about getting started with as little as one user.

Andrew DeFoe

Business Development Manager – End User Computing, AWS
Working with AWS means we can deliver greater value for public investment than if we tried to build infrastructure on our own. AWS has demonstrated its commitment to helping us innovate with disruptive technologies with a clear pathway to core operational infrastructure.

Nathan Cunningham

Former Associate Director, UK Data Service
[The cloud] has transformed our ability to build new capabilities and has transformed our ability to solve seemingly impossible intelligence problems.

John Edwards

Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The reliability of AWS, along with multiple Availability Zones, gives us fantastic availability for our applications. Our data is always available for learners.

Mike Maloney

Former Vice President of SaaS, Security, and IT, D2L

Take the next step

As you get started, identifying the right projects to migrate can be overwhelming. Start small. Identify the applications that aren’t as critical or strategic to your mission, and categorize them as legacy applications. Then, try a test environment for a new project or prepare for disaster recovery needs. Experiment with these first workloads below, assess your cloud adoption readiness, get familiar with the ins and outs of AWS, and get started.

First workload

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Training and Certifications

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Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)

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How to buy

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