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How AWS can help mission-focused organizations comply with the White House National Security Memorandum on AI
On October 24, 2024, the White House released a National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which focuses on ensuring US leadership in developing advanced AI technologies. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is uniquely positioned to address the critical needs of the defense and national security customers in advancing their AI capabilities. Our comprehensive suite of AI and high performance computing (HPC) capabilities offers flexible and robust solutions to meet the NSM’s goals and empower national security missions.
Simplify satellite contact reporting with the AWS Ground Station contacts dashboard
This post shows how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station customers can start using the Contacts dashboard for AWS Ground Station solution to fulfill their AWS Ground Station reporting and tracking needs. This solution automatically maps AWS Ground Station contacts to their associated costs and provides a feature-rich dashboard reporting capability.
Meeting the challenges of South African higher education on AWS
Many South African institutions of higher learning are suffering from underfunding, which affects their ability to remediate these issues. Students in South Africa face numerous challenges as well. Statistics from StatsSA report a 45.5 percent unemployment rate among young individuals (aged 15–34 years). And limited educational opportunities and economic disadvantages are the primary factors driving elevated rates of unemployment. This post highlights the impact that reliable and efficient education systems can have on reducing the challenges facing higher education in South Africa.
Using Login.gov as an OIDC IdP with Amazon Cognito user pools
As federal agencies strive to enhance digital services and create a seamless customer experience, integrating robust identity and access management (IAM) solutions has become paramount. Amazon Cognito, a robust user identity management service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), provides a secure and scalable solution for managing user authentication and authorization. When combined with Login.gov, a trusted identity platform developed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), federal agencies can unlock a powerful combination that streamlines user access while maintaining the highest levels of security and compliance.
Using AWS CDK to build an extensible file-scanning solution for Amazon S3 buckets
In today’s digital world, ensuring the security of information is essential. One common scenario where data security is crucial is when files from external sources are received by an organization. While Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides robust security features like the default encryption of all uploaded files, there are scenarios where it’s important to ensure that the incoming files are free from any kind of malware, such as viruses, before they are processed or stored inside the organization. Read this post to learn more.
The key components of CISA’s Malcolm on Amazon EKS
Malcolm is a powerful, open source network traffic analysis tool suite created by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to aid public and private sector customers in improving their network security monitoring and incident response. Malcolm is most commonly used for incident response, network monitoring, threat hunting, training, and research, but can be adapted for other use cases. In this post, we introduce you to the key components of Malcolm on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges
In this post, we explore how Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based technologies can be used to address diversified and dynamic water challenges in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As climate change and demographic shifts continue to strain water resources, the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions has never been more urgent.
European Commission transforms public procurement across Europe with AWS and NTT Data
To address fragmentation challenges, the European Commission launched the Public Procurement Data Space (PPDS), a pioneering initiative to consolidate, harmonize, and facilitate access to public procurement data across the European Union (EU). Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner NTT DATA have been selected to implement this project, and you can read this post to learn more.
UNSW students build an all-electric race car with AWS
In 2023, the students from Redback Racing at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) wove together their many disciplines of engineering prowess to create their latest cars: RB23 and RB21-D. After developing and going live with their real-time telemetry system on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the team has placed as the highest-ranking Australian squad in the electric vehicle (EV) division of the Australasia Formula SAE competition, placing second overall. Read this post to learn more.
Announcing the Generative AI for Geospatial Challenge, which awards $1M in AWS credits to innovators
The Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are joining forces to accelerate geospatial data breakthroughs powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI). Through the Generative AI for Geospatial Challenge, they aim to inspire and nurture groundbreaking solutions coming from the convergence of geospatial data, cloud computing, and AI models. Read this post to learn more.