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Supporting GSA CUI protection requirements with AWS

Supporting GSA CUI protection requirements with AWS

In this blog, we will discuss how federal contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) for the General Services Administration (GSA) face a critical reality when the updated security requirements are required to maintain your contracts. The stakes extend beyond business; inadequate CUI protection compromises sensitive government operations and US national interests. The recently updated GSA IT Security Procedural Guide CIO-IT Security-21-112 Revision 1 (January 2026) aligns with NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3 and sets the bar for protecting CUI in nonfederal systems. Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides security services specifically designed to help you address these requirements efficiently.

Advancing the defense system lifecycle with digital engineering on AWS

Advancing the defense system lifecycle with digital engineering on AWS

AWS provides infrastructure that enables mission and program teams to build and manage their own digital engineering environments with secure, scalable computing resources and tools. This resource supplier relationship delivers value through cost efficiency, simplified management, reliable failover, and streamlined infrastructure operations. In this post, we provide a detailed walkthrough for building a secure and scalable digital engineering environment on AWS.

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Universities across the UK conduct tens of thousands of online interviews and exams each year. During a single admissions intake, over 20,000 video interviews were recorded for international applicants, with 1.3% of sessions showing confirmed fraud, including 0.15% involving deepfakes. A survey by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) found that 2% of students […]

Building self-recovering systems against technology and business risk with Amazon Bedrock production resilience

Your generative AI production workloads can route around failures automatically. As foundation models (FMs) converge in quality, Amazon Bedrock gives you access to multiple leading models through a single API, so you can build systems that recover from throttling and capacity limits without human intervention. They’re self-healing by design. The reliability patterns behind this are […]

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How Servizo Galego de Saúde accelerates clinical trials with AWS

Read this post to learn about Innovatrial, a next-generation digital offering built by Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS) on Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by NTT DATA in collaboration with AWS. This solution radically transforms how clinical trials are managed, connecting data, people, and processes in a unified environment that accelerates scientific evidence generation.

Belgium's cloud strategy transforms tax compliance

Belgium’s cloud strategy transforms tax compliance

This is a guest post from the Belgian Ministry of Finance, AWS customer The Belgian Ministry of Finance has successfully deployed a cost-effective, real-time digital tax monitoring system using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The system helps fight fraud and is expected to bring an estimated €156 million additional annual value-added tax (VAT) returns. The Belgian […]

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs

AWS GovCloud (US) is an innovative cloud solution that includes a pair of AWS Regions providing a cloud computing environment designed specifically for government agencies, contractors, and organizations that handle sensitive, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-controlled data and require US citizenship or entity status. AWS GovCloud (US) regions exist as a separate partition from […]