AWS Public Sector Blog

Innovative AI technologies can drive a profound transformation in meteorological services as this new Amazon Web Services (AWS) short report describes. AI, generative AI, and agentic AI offer opportunities to transform meteorological services and their business models. The new methods complement traditional physics-based Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. They collect and analyze vast datasets rapidly. […]

Public sector agencies manage increasing volumes of digital evidence within casework, inspections, investigations, and enforcement operations. This evidence often includes large unstructured files such as body camera footage, surveillance video, photographs, audio interviews, and document scans. Although Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS) provides a structured case management and chain-of-custody framework, storing high-volume evidence directly inside […]

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.

Arnis, an open source tool, transforms real-world locations into playable Minecraft worlds by processing geospatial data hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). By migrating to Terrain Tiles—a global elevation dataset on the Registry of Open Data on AWS—Arnis eliminated data retrieval costs while serving nearly 300,000 users. To make terrain believable at a global scale, […]

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.” […]

Walking in urban areas, especially at night, can be intimidating. Surveys show that 40% of Americans, the highest in three decades, say they are afraid to walk alone at night, and two-thirds avoid certain activities due to fear of crime. Vulnerable groups, including women and children, are affected even more. Similar studies across European countries […]

How long would it take to update the Python runtime versions across 500 AWS Lambda functions running across an organization’s cloud environment? For the two-person cloud team at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), it used to take two months to inventory, scan, remediate, test, validate, and push to production. Today, it takes just half a day […]

AWS is expanding its AWS Ground Station as a Service Partner Program, increasing the options for space customers to bring space data to the AWS Cloud and realize its benefits. Today, AWS is excited to announce an enhanced collaboration with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), a world-leading provider of communication services for spacecraft and launch vehicles, as part of the AWS Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) Partner Program. Satellite operators can now seamlessly access KSAT’s global satellite ground station network and operation services as well as the services and tools of AWS—the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud.

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 […]

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 […]