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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.

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.

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First workload

Put the basics into practice with developing and testing code, disaster recovery and simplified backups, hosting websites and web applications, and running Microsoft workloads in AWS. Try it out
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Training and Certifications

Get familiar with AWS services, migration planning, security fundamentals, and cost management strategies with getting started training resources.Start learning
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Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)

Assess your organization’s cloud migration readiness with a short quiz and set a path for cloud adoption success. Take the assessment
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How to buy

Discover the steps you need to take to migrate your public sector organization to the cloud—from design to implementation. See for yourself