AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Generative AI
How Sphero brings safe, impactful AI to K12 classrooms with Amazon Bedrock
In this blog, learn how Sphero, a company that creates programmable robots for K12 education, built a generative AI coding assistant into its Sphero Edu app using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to solve that problem.
Introducing the AWS Australian public sector user guide for building responsible AI systems
Australian public sector agencies can now harness AI’s transformative potential while maintaining ethical, transparent, and compliant systems with new practical guidance from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is excited to announce that the AWS Australian Public Sector User Guide: Building Responsible AI systems with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI is now available through AWS […]
AI, activism, and impact: What to expect at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026
Can you imagine what’s possible when nonprofit organizations are empowered to harness today’s most advanced technology on behalf of people and the planet? On March 19, nonprofit leaders, technologists, and changemakers will gather at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to celebrate a decade of impact and explore what’s next at the 10th […]
AWS re:Invent 2025 recap for government agencies
At AWS re:Invent 2025, which took place last December in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled an array of cutting-edge innovations during a week of keynotes, innovation talks, breakout sessions, product launches, interactive demos, and networking opportunities. For stakeholders in the public sector, the conference offered a whole host of important announcements, compelling themes, […]
Anne Arundel County integrates generative AI into case management to empower staff and improve citizen services
Every day, the Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Office of Community Engagement and Constituent Services receives hundreds of resident concerns by phone, online, and even in handwritten letters. These aren’t routine inquiries but complex problems, such as zoning disputes, permitting questions, and other issues that residents have escalated to the highest levels of county government. Staff […]
Too rare for care: How AI is helping solve the rare disease paradox
With a smartphone, mGene’s AI technology can analyze facial features to identify subtle indications of genetic syndromes It’s one of medicine’s tragic paradoxes that, collectively, rare diseases have significant impact on human health. The World Health Organization defines conditions affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 people as rare, and it’s estimated that over 300 million […]
City of Virginia Beach launches AI-powered search assistant to transform citizen access to information
Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner Allwyn, the city of Virginia Beach launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational search assistant on its public website that helps residents and visitors find answers in plain language, without having to hunt through search results.
Democratizing climate data science: How Columbia University’s LEAP center built AutoClimDS on AWS
Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.
Bringing agentic AI into spreadsheets for planning tactical electrical power
Teams from AWS, working with Sentient Industries, brought the power of AI directly into Excel spreadsheets. Logistics officers can now type the device description in Excel and have the power specs retrieved from a knowledge base in Amazon Bedrock. Unlike a chat-based solution, the AI directly loads the data into spreadsheet cells, creating a streamlined and efficient user workflow. The AI meets the users where they are, and this capability is now being commercialized by Sentient. Read this post to learn more.
Building AI literacy by implementing Amazon PartyRock in educational settings
In this post, we explore how the intuitive interface, collaborative features, and diverse learning modalities of PartyRock make it an ideal tool for educators who want to support AI literacy goals while accommodating different learning styles and technical backgrounds.









