AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Government
Reducing transcription costs by 60% using AWS AI/ML services
The process of transcribing video or audio files has traditionally been manual and time-consuming. Beyond the need for accurate and cost-effective transcriptions, attorneys have determined a need for timestamping capabilities, speaker identification, search and replace capabilities, the highlighting of specific words, editing capabilities, and most importantly, shortened turnaround times.To address the need for quicker and more accurate transcription of audiovisual files, the Contra Costa County (CCC) District Attorney’s (DA) Office reached out to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partnered with AWS Partner ScaleCapacity to develop a solution that would automate the manual transcription process. Read this post to learn more.
AWS joins global leaders in New York during United Nations General Assembly
While global leaders convened for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Dave Levy, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector, met with business leaders, diplomats, and civic organizations to discuss AWS’s innovative approach to tackling global challenges. He delivered a fireside chat at the Concordia Annual Summit, and joined the Atlantic Council for two panels, where he shared AWS’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services as key examples of how the company harnesses technological advancement to drive global impact. Read this post to learn more.
Mitigating inadvertent IPv6 prefix advertisement with AWS automation
As federal agencies migrate to the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 framework, they will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to exit to the internet, bypassing the TIC network. This transition requires agencies to plan and coordinate migration activities to verify seamless IPv6 connectivity. Agencies need to coordinate advertising their IPv6 prefixes with AWS, using mechanisms like Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP). The migration process could involve changes in routing policies, firewall rules, and security controls to accommodate the IPv6 prefix changes. Read this post to learn more.
Safeguarding data exchange in government using AWS
When government agencies choose Amazon Web Service (AWS) to store data, they choose to take advantage of inheriting the strictest security controls and standards. In addition, AWS services offer a unique opportunity to enhance networking and security approaches, ensuring safe and resilient data transfer mechanisms. This blog post provides guidance towards data sharing among government agencies, offering prescriptive approaches and best practices for implementing secure data exchange solutions using AWS services.
Impacting every citizen and utilizing generative AI to enhance US federal civilian agencies: Insights from AWS executive Christian Hoff
Christian Hoff, director of federal civilian sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), is an inspirational and humble trailblazer who has built a lifelong career of serving others and improving lives. He’s thrived through a multifaceted lens as a Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), mentor and mentee alike, and father. Read this post and listen to the latest episode of the AWS Behind the Cloud vodcast for Hoff’s professional and personal insights.
Peraton consolidates data centers and migrates to AWS
Peraton is a mission capability integrator and delivers enterprise IT around the world. They are also an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner with competencies in government, DevOps, and migration. Peraton’s IT infrastructure and technology strategy are designed to support the delivery of mission-critical services and solutions to its customers at a global scale. In this post, we explore how Peraton used AWS to migrate and build out a virtual data center in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions within a six-month time frame with an advanced and secure end-state architecture.
NSW Department of Education works with AWS to transform tech skills and the digital jobs landscape
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies is changing how we work and what skills workers need to be able to thrive. To help meet this challenge in Australia, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has deepened its strategic collaboration with the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DoE), which prioritises both educator and student upskilling. Read this post to learn more.
Data governance policies for Asia Pacific cloud adoption in healthcare
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently collaborated with global consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal to produce a whitepaper, “Cloud data governance and best practices for public healthcare cloud adoption in Asia Pacific.” This paper aims to give recommendations based on best practice examples for health policymakers to provide clear direction to healthcare institutions for governance of healthcare data in the cloud. Read this blog post for a summary of the key takeaways.
AWS Canada launches $5 million Provincial and Municipal Cyber Grant Program
On September 11, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of the Provincial and Municipal Cyber Grant Program across Canada at the AWS Summit in Toronto. To help provincial and municipal governments implement cloud-based cybersecurity solutions, AWS is investing $5 million CAD in AWS credits to new and existing AWS customers.
Anduril unleashes the power of RAG with enterprise search chatbot Alfred on AWS
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, has launched Alfred, an internal enterprise search chatbot powered by cutting-edge Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Kendra, and Amazon DynamoDB, on the secure AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, Anduril has built a robust and scalable data infrastructure that can support Alfred’s growing knowledge needs.