Category: Public Sector

AWS collaborated with the Virginia Army National Guard (VA ARNG) for Cyber Fortress 2025, an exercise that brought together government agencies, public utilities, and academia to strengthen critical infrastructure defense through collaborative training. Read this post to learn more.

Public safety is at a crossroads. A rising wave of cyber attacks on mission-critical public safety systems has spurred agencies across the country to modernize their infrastructure. This journey involves adopting new technology, but it’s also about building trust, resilience, and agility into the heart of 911 operations. Recent milestones by Carbyne—culminating in renewed AWS Government Competency status—showcase how a next-generation approach can help agencies stay ahead.

Today, we are excited to announce the release of E11 Bio’s brain tissue dataset on AWS as part of the Registry of Open Data on AWS (E11bio PRISM). Read this post to learn more.

AWS is expanding its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to Tennessee, which becomes the sixth state in the alliance. Through a strategic collaboration with the Nashville Innovation Alliance, this partnership aims to address middle Tennessee’s growing technology talent demand, with particular emphasis on AI and cloud computing skills, where tech job postings have increased by 35 percent between 2020 and 2023, with an estimated 8,000 open technology positions across the region.

Read this post to learn about Pi Jam Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to bringing creative computing and digital skills to underserved students using AWS.

In this post, we walk through three solutions that allow AWS GovCloud (US) workloads to securely connect into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) commercial partition to perform inference with Amazon Bedrock. Each approach comes with different trade-offs, and by the end you’ll have a clear view of which path might be right for your organization.

Defense and national security customers are shifting away from legacy systems toward innovative, best-in-class commercial solutions in the cloud that can provide warfighters a superior technical advantage. Nontraditional defense contractors and commercial companies building these solutions face a challenge: accessing classified IT quickly and cost-effectively. Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership between AWS and Westway Services Group LLC that tackles this challenge head-on.

In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.

This blog explores how the University of Sheffield uses AWS Partner RONIN Core and RONIN Isolate solutions to deliver a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) built on AWS infrastructure, enabling secure research and collaboration with sensitive data through the university’s Data Connect service. Secure and compliant infrastructure is essential for sensitive research. Many research institutions use a research Landing Zone to build Secure Research Environments (SRE) that provide the foundational compliance infrastructure—meeting standards like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CMMC—upon which TREs like RONIN can build secure research workflows.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Wiz are excited to share that Wiz for Government has achieved a FedRAMP High authorization. This milestone reinforces Wiz’s commitment to working with AWS and helping U.S. public sector organizations and partners securely manage their environments from code to cloud to runtime. Read this post to learn more.