AWS Public Sector Blog

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The Signal-Activated Agent Pattern: A reference architecture for proactive government AI

The Signal-Activated Agent Pattern: A reference architecture for proactive government AI

In Part 2 of our two-part series, we discuss the architecture of the Signal-Activated Agent Pattern and its application for proactive government AI. For Part 1, see Signal-activated generative AI: How agencies can reach more people and react faster.

Transforming Public Sector Procurement with Agentic AI on AWS

Transforming Public Sector Procurement with Agentic AI on AWS

This post explores how an agentic AI architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) modernizes the procurement lifecycle from solicitation to proposal evaluation while maintaining compliance with government regulations including United States of America FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation),United States of America DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation), and Canadian procurement frameworks (Public Service Procurement Canada (PSPC) /Shared Services Canada (SSC).

Accelerate IRAP readiness with AWS and Wiz

Accelerate IRAP readiness with AWS and Wiz

As organisations modernise to meet the evolving expectations of the Australian Government, delivering secure, cloud-based services has become a commercial and operational necessity. This transformation brings a critical challenge: maintaining a hardened security posture while aligning to the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment requirements and priorities.

What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads

What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads

The cost dimensions of agentic workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are invisible to many organizations beginning their agentic journey. It’s straightforward to track tokens consumed because this dimension translates directly to your bill. But most organizations can’t determine the cost per request or the cost to answer a single user question. Without understanding the cost to answer a single user question, organizations are blind to cost issues. In this post, I talk about how to gain visibility into your agentic costs, and I identify three things you can do to better control your costs.

Validating infrastructure as code against FedRAMP 20x Shift-left compliance

Validating infrastructure as code against FedRAMP 20x: Shift-left compliance

Catching a compliance violation in production is expensive. Catching it in a pull request is nearly free. In this post, we demonstrate how to build a multi-tool infrastructure as code (IaC) validation pipeline that checks AWS CloudFormation templates and Terraform configurations against Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) 20x Key Security Indicators (KSIs) before deployment. Combined with the preventive controls from Preventive controls for FedRAMP 20x: Using SCPs and guardrails to enforce KSIs and the methods to be described in future blog posts, this creates a full-lifecycle compliance architecture.

MARS-E to ARC-AMPE: Guide for state Medicaid agencies on AWS

MARS-E to ARC-AMPE: Guide for state Medicaid agencies on AWS

This post is for two audiences. The first is agencies already running MARS-E-compliant workloads on AWS that are looking to map their existing posture onto the new framework. The second is agencies planning a migration from on-premises infrastructure where ARC-AMPE will be in scope from the first day.