Getting Started with Cloud
First steps: find guidance and case studies from around the world to help start your transformation.
Expert insights
Use what works
Accelerate modernization by using standards and codes that others have tried, tested, and made freely available, say AWS experts Caroline Mulligan and Peter Herlihy, creators of Open Government Solutions on AWS.
Ideas & research
VIDEO
Agile action approach shows results
Learn how to achieve fast results with an Agile approach that empowers teams and wins buy-in from senior stakeholders for radical transformation programs.
VIDEO
Transform services securely
VIDEO
Design services for success
Design thinking is a user-first approach to transformation that is essential for successful and cost-effective modernization. Find out how listening to citizens leads to effective modernization.
VIDEO
Start small to make big transformation
Successful nation-scale government modernization starts with small initiatives that can scale with the right people and direction. The latest insight from the AWS Institute Transformation Essentials series focuses on how to get reform programs off the ground.

WHITEPAPER
Beyond the digital status quo
Governments see the risk of technological transformation but they don't fully calculate the risk of not embracing digital transformation. The Canada Public Policy Forum (PPF) first reported on this issue in 2019, with AWS Institute support in The Risk of the Digital Status Quo. The PPF revisits the issues in light of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the speed and scale of reform in Beyond the Digital Status Quo.

WHITEPAPER
Cloud technology: guidance for the public sector
How can state agencies successfully deploy cloud technology? Find best practices from across Europe with a special focus on Ireland.

INDEX
New Digital Development Index of States
A new index seeks to inform government policies that support digital transformation in areas including infrastructure and companies. Centro Mexico Digital launched the Digital Development Index of the States in Mexico, with support from the AWS Institute.

REPORT
Bridging the digital divide through upskilling
The global skills gap affects the economic wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Education and industry are mostly tasked with solving it. But how can governments be part
of the solution, and why are cloud skills so important?
VIDEO
Best practices learned during COVID-19
The AWS Institute hosted a video panel to highlight how public sector organizations around the world are using cloud technology to address problems that emerged with COVID-19.

WHITEPAPER
Digital Peru - the road to transformation
The Peruvian government has set a digital transformation agenda. This paper, created in collaboration with AmCham, reviews the journey so far and suggests future steps.

COMMENT
Five digital trends in Chile
Chile’s health services were able to better respond to the COVID19 crisis because they had adopted digital technology in recent years, argues Jana Nelson, Latin America lead for the AWS Institute. She explores five trends putting Chile at the forefront of public service transformation in this La Tercera article, written with AWS’ education sector lead in Chile, Pamela Orbenes.

PLAYBOOK
Going cloud first (ASEAN)
A practical guide to transformation for leaders in government organizations of all sizes.

BLOG
The public sector modernization paradox and how to overcome it
How can public sector teams make big, complex change happen? AWS government transformation EMEA lead Mike Beaven offers suggestions.
AWS Institute Executive Education
AWS Institute offers a complementary Executive Education program to equip senior public servants and elected officials with the knowledge to lead digital transformation. You will be part of a small cohort learning from global thought leaders and practitioners. The three-module program fosters peer-to-peer learning and support and offers a library of master class lectures.