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Transforming federal IT with Datadog's FedRAMP Class D (High) solution

Transforming federal IT with Datadog’s FedRAMP Class D (High) solution

In this post, we explore how federal agencies can accelerate modernization, improve cybersecurity incident response, and support continuous compliance monitoring using Datadog’s FedRAMP High authorized observability and security platform.

Scaling biomedical research on AWS: A cloud-native approach to scientific data management

Scaling biomedical research on AWS: A cloud-native approach to scientific data management

This post explores how cloud-native architectures built using Amazon Web Services (AWS) help research institutions manage, curate, publish, and analyze complex scientific datasets at scale.

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

Universities across the UK conduct tens of thousands of online interviews and exams each year. During a single admissions intake, over 20,000 video interviews were recorded for international applicants, with 1.3% of sessions showing confirmed fraud, including 0.15% involving deepfakes. A survey by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) found that 2% of students […]

Building self-recovering systems against technology and business risk with Amazon Bedrock production resilience

Your generative AI production workloads can route around failures automatically. As foundation models (FMs) converge in quality, Amazon Bedrock gives you access to multiple leading models through a single API, so you can build systems that recover from throttling and capacity limits without human intervention. They’re self-healing by design. The reliability patterns behind this are […]

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs

AWS GovCloud (US) is an innovative cloud solution that includes a pair of AWS Regions providing a cloud computing environment designed specifically for government agencies, contractors, and organizations that handle sensitive, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-controlled data and require US citizenship or entity status. AWS GovCloud (US) regions exist as a separate partition from […]

How to travel safely based on crime patterns using AWS services

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 […]

Amplifying builder impact: How Kiro transformed cloud operations and security at Loyola Marymount University

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 […]

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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.