Resources for Government, Education, and Nonprofits

If terrestrial network connectivity between an Outpost and its parent AWS Region is unavailable, Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts routes traffic back to the parent Region over a Low Earth Orbit satellite connection, supporting business continuity and data residency requirements.

Sapphire Health, an AWS Partner, worked with LCMC Health to build a cloud read-only environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). LCMC Health's production Epic environment is replicated in the organization's secure healthcare landing zone on AWS.

AWS Partner eCloud Managed Solutions, an AWS Global Security & Compliance Acceleration Program Partner, helped Punta Gorda Airport build a disaster recovery (DR) solution in a multi-Availability Zone deployment using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS).

Ellucian improved recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives by 15 times for its single-button disaster recovery service built around AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS serverless solutions.

Moving digital assets to the cloud is one of the first steps governments can take to secure their public services against large-scale disruptions. Public sector leaders say this journey often brings challenges and roadblocks that are organizational rather than technical. Learn key takeaways that can help you better prepare for this transformation.

Teams from the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) collaborated with BJSS to bring its Test & Trace health services rapidly into Amazon Web Services (AWS) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this post we discuss how AWS IoT for Defense and National Security (IoT4D) increases readiness by driving operational excellence for manufacturing and supply chains, improving sustainability for buildings and bases, improving equipment maintenance and uptime, and providing situational awareness at the tactical edge.

The Amazon re:MARS 2022 conference brought together thought leaders, technical experts, and groundbreaking companies and organizations that are transforming what’s possible in machine learning (ML), automation, robotics, and space. Advancements in these fields are the engines that will drive innovation for the next 100 years. Read on to learn about announcements from re:MARS related to the public sector, plus some of the innovative organizations and companies that were onsite to inspire guests with breakthrough technologies and ideas.

In a data-dependent world, success belongs to the side with decision advantage: the ability to acquire data and make sense of a complex and adaptive environment, and act smarter and faster than the competition. Understanding global environments requires more than just more data – it requires live two- and three-dimensional maps, new support tools, improved processes, seamless connectivity, and better collaboration that can scale to the needs of the environment. This blog post explores how to address challenges of big data and accelerate time to data insights with machine learning with AWS Snowball Edge device deployment at the edge.

The Uniformed Services University Health System (USUHS) is the nation’s federal health professions academy, offering a curriculum and educational experience that emphasizes military healthcare, leadership, readiness, and public health. Each year, USUHS holds a training exercise called Operation Gunpowder to help prepare third-year medical students for varying field-care challenges they may encounter during their service. Over the course of the eight weeks prior to the training exercise, AWS collaborated with Deloitte to deliver ancillary system and operational medicine telemedicine best practice training to the participating students. “This is the first time telemed has truly delivered,” reported attending experts in special operations medicine.

In a recent disaster response field testing exercise (FTX), the AWS Global Social Impact Solutions (GSI) team developed a prototype cloud architecture and tested it in a search and rescue (SAR) scenario simulating a missing responder crisis. This blog post walks through the SAR simulation and result, and provides an overview of the AWS services and technical architecture components the GSI team used to provide a hybrid edge/cloud COP solution that helped locate the missing team member in the simulated scenario within 20 minutes.

Disaster recovery is a crucial investment for public sector organizations. However, out-of-date disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP) policies prevent organizations from improving in these essential areas—like the assumption that the more distance between data centers, the better. But is there a point where more distance between data centers has diminishing risk mitigation returns? Enter the Goldilocks zone for disaster recovery, in which the distance between data centers is not too close, not too far, but just right.

AWS Partner SmartSimple helped Vancouver Foundation streamline its grantmaking processes, respond faster to community needs, accelerate grant funding, and make sure there was high availability at all times. SmartSimple worked with the foundation to implement SmartSimple Cloud for Grants Management.

Document databases make it simpler for developers to store and query data in a database by using the same document-model format they use in their application code. This blog post details how public sector organizations are using Amazon DocumentDB, a fast, scalable document database.

Adam Marlatt, Director of Operations at Help.NGO, describes how his team responds to disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, and the critical role that cloud technology plays.

During the opening keynote of the AWS Summit Washington, DC, Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, took to the stage to welcome customers, partners, sponsors, and guests to the two-day event. Read on to see what you missed.

The AWS Disaster Response team conducted a field testing operation designed to replicate a common disaster response scenario, to show how amateur radio operators can establish an ad-hoc network at field sites with limited connectivity and create a link to an office headquarters to provide access to cloud-based resources and data to responders in the field.

Higher education institutions that hadn’t considered the cloud prior to the pandemic are now investigating how to begin their cloud journey. Explore strategies and first projects to help higher education institutions get started with the AWS Cloud simply and efficiently.

In this blog post, learn how AWS can support customers’ efforts in building their security environment to better address regulatory requirements through some core security objectives.

Recent events, from cyberattacks and severe weather events to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, have revealed that many public sector organizations are not fully prepared to respond to these incidents. At the same time, large-scale disruptive events illustrate how important it is to respond rapidly to keep essential services running as well as quickly pivot to offer new services.

In this interactive virtual tradeshow, find technology demos and use cases with introductory information designed to help professionals at intergovernmental organizations and nonprofits understand how AWS can help further their missions.

Join AWS experts as they walk you through AWS’s foundational security concepts and tools to help you adopt cyber hygiene best practices and mitigate a variety of security risks, including addressing ransomware attacks.

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This quarter, we released 28 new datasets including data on SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes, storm surge forecasts, and US census data.

As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, we invited Jena Kent, communications/engagement and co-technical lead from NOAA’s Big Data Program, to share how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping with disaster response by providing access to aerial data and imagery through open data initiatives.