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Amazon Web Services Partner KBR achieves 27% savings migrating to AWS Graviton

Amazon Web Services Partner KBR achieves 27% savings migrating to AWS Graviton

In this post, you’ll learn how KBR—a global science, technology, and engineering solutions organization—achieved a 33.5% cost savings and a 27.09% increase in pipeline processing speed by migrating geospatial processing workloads from an x86 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i instance to AWS Graviton processors while maintaining data accuracy within 0.002% of x86 outputs.

Secure, AI-driven cloud migration for DoW using CloudHedge

Secure, AI-driven cloud migration for DoW using CloudHedge

Learn how CloudHedge’s CHAI platform brings together three transformative components: DART (Discovery, Assessment, and Rationalization Tool), Flow Federal Edition, and CHAI Universe Model Context Protocol (MCP). All three components are grounded in the intelligence of Amazon Bedrock.

Transforming federal IT with Datadog's FedRAMP Class D (High) solution

Transforming federal IT with Datadog’s FedRAMP Class D (High) solution

In this post, we explore how federal agencies can accelerate modernization, improve cybersecurity incident response, and support continuous compliance monitoring using Datadog’s FedRAMP High authorized observability and security platform.

The transformative impact of generative AI on business workflows in a highly regulated industry

The transformative impact of generative AI on business workflows in a highly regulated industry

The aerospace industry represents one of the most complex regulatory environments for software development, where system failures can result in catastrophic consequences including loss of human life and multibillion-dollar assets. In this blog post, learn how Blue Origin operates within this framework, in which software systems control every aspect of rocket propulsion, navigation, life support, and mission-critical operations.

Domino Data Lab secures container supply chains at scale using Chainguard on AWS

Domino Data Lab secures container supply chains at scale using Chainguard on AWS

Ivanti’s 2025 State of Cybersecurity Report revealed that only one in three organizations feel prepared to protect themselves from software supply chain threats. According to Cowbell’s Cyber Roundup Report 2024, with respect to supply chain threats, operating systems pose the greatest immediate threat as “they form the foundational layer of an organization’s entire IT infrastructure.” […]

CMS Saves $3.5M Annually by Modernizing Open Payments System on AWS

CMS Saves $3.5M Annually by Modernizing Open Payments System on AWS

Established by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2010 and expanded by the SUPPORT Act of 2018, the Open Payments program creates public transparency around financial relationships between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. When faced with aging infrastructure and rising costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needed to modernize the statutorily mandated […]

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Change.org’s Ray-based recommender on Amazon EKS increases petition signatures by 30%

Read this post to learn how Change.org built a next-generation recommender on AWS that turned more awareness into action—boosting petition signatures by 30 percent.

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Booz Allen Hamilton accelerates mainframe migration with AWS

Many government agencies rely on critical applications running on legacy systems, which is highlighted in a 2023 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). These applications are typically monolithic, built on outdated technologies that necessitate workarounds, lack scalability, and incur escalating operational costs. The GAO report identified numerous federal IT legacy systems in urgent need of modernization. To address these challenges, Booz Allen Hamilton, an AWS Partner, offers innovative solutions using multi-tenant architectures. This post delves into one such mission-critical application developed for a large-scale federal agency, showcasing how modern cloud technologies can transform legacy government systems.

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AWS accelerates digital public infrastructure adoption with automation

In this post, we explore how AWS enables the automation of deploying a DPI-based solution stack. We highlight Sunbird RC (Registry and Credentials) as a real-world digital public goods (DPG) building block. The following example provides an overview and execution of the packaging available in the Sunbird community GitHub repository for provisioning required AWS services and deploying Sunbird RC services.