AWS Public Sector Blog

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to build effective laboratory systems in the US and globally, representing state and local governmental health labs that monitor and detect public health threats. In 2024, APHL successfully applied for the AWS invite-only category of the AWS Imagine Grant, the Children’s Health Innovation Award. Working with their healthcare technology partner Ruvos, APHL received grant funding that included both cash and AWS credits to advance Detor, an electronic test order and result (ETOR) solution developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Trusted Research Environments (TREs) provide secure access to sensitive data, enabling research while controlling data movement to meet governance requirements. In this post, we review core TRE concepts, examine TRE history and related initiatives, and explore key considerations for successfully deploying a TRE on AWS.

Traditional cloud migration approaches followed the established 7 Rs: Rehost, Refactor or re-architect, Relocate, Repurchase, Replatform, Retain, and Retire. However, we now see the emergence of an 8th R, Reinvention, which is transforming government agencies into dynamic public value engines. Read this post to learn more.

Through the innovative use of Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services, Save the Children España created a transformative solution that addresses a critical social challenge. This web application not only simplifies access to social benefits for vulnerable families, but also empowers social workers with better tools to support their communities. Read this post to learn more.

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) envisions a world where information quickly and effectively moves from the hands of scientists to communities and governments, enabling rapid action to protect coral reefs. Through their MERMAID (Marine Ecological Research Management AID) platform, WCS creates transparency around coral reef health and empowers people and institutions with the data they need to take action to save reefs. Read this post to learn more.

This post shares lessons learned by Pariveda, a strategy and technology services firm, during the implementation of a scalable and flexible data integration pipeline for a customer. We review three approaches, all leveraging AWS Glue and Salesforce capabilities, to securely publish data to polymorphic objects and compounded fields.

Without targeted interventions, many young people transition into adulthood without the skills required by today’s economy. Workforce-oriented skilling has therefore become a critical bridge from exclusion to employability. This post explores how Nigeria’s The Three Million Technical Talent (3MTT) initiative—built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supported by the AWS Education Equity Initiative (EEI)—is addressing this challenge by delivering market-relevant digital skills to millions of young people.

Public sector organizations and technology vendors across industries—from healthcare and education to public safety and citizen services—struggle with complex identity integration requirements when deploying applications across multiple facilities and jurisdictions. This post demonstrates how organizations can eliminate integration delays using an automated metadata extraction solution built on AWS that provides self-service access to Amazon Cognito user pools metadata through a serverless REST API.

PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock playground from Amazon Web Services (AWS), makes creating artificial intelligence (AI) applications simple and engaging—even if you have never written a line of code. With just a few steps, you can build your own AI assistant to help with homework, share with friends, or spark new creative ideas. Read this post to learn more.

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS. AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-based techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. Through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program, customers are making over 300 PB of high-value, cloud-optimized data available for public use.