Customer Stories / Government
2024
UK Ministry of Justice accelerates critical decisions with AWS analytics and machine learning
The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) works to protect and advance the principles of justice, with a vision to deliver a world-class justice system, for everyone in society. Its priorities are to protect the public from serious offenders, to reduce reoffending and to deliver swift access to justice. To support these goals, the MoJ turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reduce operational complexity, enhance collaboration within the ministry, and reduce reliance on older monolithic systems.
The heart of the MoJ's data and analytics capabilities is its Analytical Platform, built on AWS. This platform serves over 500 data and analytics professionals on a daily basis. Services like Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), Amazon Athena and Amazon S3 power the ingestion and management of large data flows from across the MoJ's diverse data sources, ranging from legacy databases to modern digital microservices.
The ministry has a strong track record of utilising advanced analytics, machine learning, and risk assessment tools to generate critical insights. It is also working with AWS to leverage the potential of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), experimenting with how these technologies can be used to improve both back-office and frontline operations. This includes exploring the use of Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service providing secure access to leading foundation models.
The Analytical Platform is used by over 500 people from our data and analytical communities on a daily basis, and it's great that it's built with AWS, because it gives them the power they need, to really give the consistent advice that our ministers, our frontline staff and the public deserve.
Hugh Stickland
CDO and Chief Scientific Advisor, MoJ
AWS Services Used
Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use your current, familiar Apache Airflow platform to orchestrate your workflows. You gain improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of managing underlying infrastructure.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Millions of customers of all sizes and industries store, manage, analyze, and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. With cost-effective storage classes and easy-to-use management features, you can optimize costs, organize and analyze data, and configure fine-tuned access controls to meet specific business and compliance requirements.
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides a single API to access and utilize various high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies. It offers a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
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