Category: Public Sector

Most security teams know what’s needed to defend their organization. Regulatory guidance is available, threat intelligence sharing has increased, and risks are well-documented. So why are healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) groups, from commercial payors to public health systems, still facing recurring incidents or falling behind in protecting sensitive information? The answer is the execution gap: the space between knowing what to do and the ability to get it done.

A recent State CIO Survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) highlights that modernization extends beyond a single piece of technology. Digital accessibility, AI, modernization funding, cloud, data governance, collaboration, and service delivery are now all connected priorities that influence constituent-facing experiences and the operating models that make those experiences possible. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partners like Presidio help agencies address these priorities through cloud-based modernization patterns that connect workflow, data, experience, and governance.

In this post, we describe how ITHAKA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborated to build an on-demand PDF accessibility pipeline that remediates documents when users need them, serving researchers while using nonprofit resources responsibly. For organizations managing a large document collection under accessibility compliance deadlines, this post shows there is an affordable, practical path forward that doesn’t require converting an entire library upfront.

When disasters strike, the first thing responders need is an accurate map. But for much of the world, detailed maps don’t exist. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been fulfilling that need since 2010. Today, HOT is a global network of over 500,000 contributors across 94 countries. By combining local ground-truth mapping, regional hubs, and open source tools, HOT coordinates massive, crowdsourced efforts to provide immediate data to responders without licensing costs or procurement barriers.

Learn how at FSU, the university’s partnership with AWS has already delivered meaningful results, including a $20,000 Research Acceleration Fund that provides AWS credits to faculty and no-cost cloud services training available campus-wide. But researchers wanted something more: a structured, guided program that would build practical cloud skills around real research scenarios.

This post describes how Floy built an FM-based AI platform on AWS, from training and inference to clinical integration, that scales to meet the demands of modern radiology.

In this post, we review how AWS Lambda works today, introduce durable functions, walk through a document processing use case for child welfare, and explain when to choose durable functions over AWS Step Functions.

Learn how MedZen Health supports SMS, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), and call center access, helping patients connect with healthcare services regardless of their phone type or internet access.

In this post, we walk through how OSM partnered with Sierra-Cedar, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to design, build, and deploy FileVault—a secure file transfer solution powered by AWS Transfer Family and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—while preserving the user experience that state employees already knew and trusted.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), through the Open Data on AWS and Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) programs, became a foundational collaborator from the outset, hosting Digital Earth Africa’s data on AWS infrastructure in Cape Town, South Africa, and enabling African users to access and analyze petabytes of satellite data at a speed and scale that would otherwise be out of reach.