AWS Public Sector Blog
Tag: technical how-to
Providing equitable access to NASA’s Earth science data archive
In this blog, learn how NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) is migrating over 170 petabytes of Earth science data to AWS to provide equitable access to researchers worldwide, eliminating the “data fortress” problem while achieving significant cost efficiencies through intelligent tiering, serverless architecture, and economies of scale. The post also details how NASA made over 6,000 Earth Science collections visible in the Registry of Open Data on AWS, enabling seamless discovery and analysis for the broader AWS user community.
Practical digital sovereignty: Navigating the pillars of compliance, continuity, and control
In this series of blog posts, we will examine digital sovereignty and provide practical steps you can apply to your AWS workloads and environments to address the requirements of your business. This post is the first in the series and introduces the topic, exploring the concepts and explaining how you can practically implement them.
Streamlining public health data integration with AWS visual workflows
An open source Amazon Web Services (AWS) visual workflow is transforming how public health departments approach data integration, combining familiar drag-and-drop interfaces with the power and scalability of serverless architecture.
Solving public IP space asymmetric routing challenges for higher education AWS migrations
In this post, we look at asymmetric outbound network flows and how to remedy this routing for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads.
Architecting secure AI sandboxes in AWS GovCloud (US)
Organizations operating in AWS GovCloud (US) might require alternative architectural approaches, depending on service availability in their target Region. This post presents an architecture that’s deployable on AWS GovCloud (US) for secure generative AI experimentation using Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon Bedrock.
Why your AI agents give inconsistent results, and how Agent SOPs fix it
How can you use the power of agentic AI but give yourself a more deterministic (or consistent) output? In this post, we show you how Agent SOPs work and explain how you can use them in your agentic workloads.
How MPAC accelerates IT support resolution using generative AI on AWS
MPAC, Ontario’s property assessment expert managing 5.7 million properties, faced mounting pressure on their IT support desk. Routine requests consumed most of the support team’s resources, creating bottlenecks and impacting organization-wide productivity. MPAC needed a round-the-clock IT support solution that maintained stringent security and governance standards for a public sector organization. MPAC’s IT Support Assistant—powered by their custom MPAC Orchestrator platform and Amazon Bedrock on AWS revolutionized its IT support.
Amplifying intelligence in ISR Data: Cloud-native streaming for FMV in an agentic AI era
In this post, we explore how the combination of a modern AWS Cloud architecture, streaming media, and AI technologies are evolving the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) landscape, establishing a new era of enhanced mission system capabilities.
Transform DevOps practice with Kiro AI-powered agents
In this post, we introduce you to Kiro, an agentic AI development service, and show you how it can save you hours on your daily automation tasks. Learn how the Kiro command line interface (CLI) transforms DevOps automation with AI-powered agents that install, configure, and deploy infrastructure using natural language commands in minutes.
Empowering government document understanding with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings processes documents as complete units, capturing both textual content and visual elements in a unified embedding space. This helps public sector organizations unlock the full value of their document repositories while maintaining the security, compliance, and accessibility standards required for government operations. Read this post to learn more.









