Category: Public Sector

In this post, we explore how AWS enables the automation of deploying a DPI-based solution stack. We highlight Sunbird RC (Registry and Credentials) as a real-world digital public goods (DPG) building block. The following example provides an overview and execution of the packaging available in the Sunbird community GitHub repository for provisioning required AWS services and deploying Sunbird RC services.

On March 26, the Imagine Nonprofit conference will bring together nonprofit visionaries and leading technologists at Amazon HQ2 outside of Washington, DC. This no-cost, in-person event helps nonprofits rethink what’s possible for their missions with cloud technology. Read this post to learn more about what Imagine Nonprofit has in store.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that AWS Marketplace has received “Awardable” status in the Department of Defense (DoD) Platform One (P1) Solutions Marketplace. This designation enables DoD organizations to readily access and procure solutions through AWS Marketplace using established acquisition pathways.

In recent years, public sector organizations have found success running their scientific data processing workloads on Amazon Web Services. As the number of workloads increase with the massive data volume and complex scientific simulations, organizations are looking for ways to optimize cost while maintaining research momentum. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances presents a compelling option to run unused Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity with an up to 90 percent discount compared to On-Demand prices. However, the intermittent nature of Spot Instances often requires careful consideration, especially when handling time-sensitive mission-critical workloads. In this post, we discuss how organizations can effectively identify opportunities to use Spot Instances and Amazon Q Business to develop an enhanced Spot Instance analysis. 

Academic research IT departments around the world face the same challenge: how to balance their existing on-premises infrastructure with the opportunities of cloud computing. At the Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) conference, Amazon Web Services hosted a panel featuring two research IT leaders: Circe Tsui, associate director of solutions architecture at Emory University in the Office of Information Technology, and Dr. Robert Shen, director of the RMIT AWS Supercomputing Hub (RACE) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). During the panel, Tsui and Shen shared how their institutions use AWS to augment and enhance their research operations with more scalability, security, and collaboration alongside their on-premises infrastructure. Read this post to learn more.

By 2026, more than 90 percent of organizations worldwide will face challenges related to an IT skills shortage. Artificial intelligence skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. To address these needs, Amazon Web Services hosts AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days, a series of no-cost in-person events nationwide. These one-day events provide IT professionals and business executives in state and local government (SLG) and education with hands-on learning opportunities to grow their cloud skills. Read this post to learn more.

Amazon Web Services today announced the launch of the Federal Addendum to the Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace (SCMP). This novel approach to contracting can help streamline government approvals of software procurement and speed up the government’s access to third-party software solutions using AWS Marketplace by offering a pre-negotiated and consistent end-user license agreement (EULA) for each purchase. Read this post to learn more.

Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs and provide students with a clear path to degree completion. Data analytics can help these institutions proactively identify and support at-risk students, allowing them to develop personalized intervention strategies to improve student retention and graduation rates. In this post, we’ll explore how Amazon Redshift ML, a powerful machine learning (ML) capability within the Amazon Redshift data warehouse, can enable higher education leaders to quickly predict student outcomes and communicate insights to key stakeholders.

Some customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) prohibit users from installing software from public sources. Recently, the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) solution added optional capabilities to support this use case. Instead of installing directly from the public LZA GitHub repository, which is the default installation path for most customers, LZA can be self-hosted from your own Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. This post shows the technical steps necessary to install LZA using Amazon S3.

As the primary agency of the US government responsible for biomedical and public health research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is one of the leading medical research centers in the world. The NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) is tasked with helping NIH prioritize its research. OPA wanted to find a better way to optimize its cloud costs as its analytical research demands continued to grow. That need led OPA to work with AWS Partner Govplace, a systems integrator and solution provider for the public sector. Read this post to learn more about how OPA reduced research costs and scaled on demand.