Category: Public Sector

Under legacy Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Rev5, continuous monitoring meant monthly deliverables and annual assessments. Under FedRAMP 20x, it means persistent, automated validation where the status of your security posture is always known. In this post, we operationalize that model using AWS Security Hub, AWS Config conformance packs, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Sigma detection rules to build an always-on monitoring architecture.

For 70 years, Carter Credit Union has served communities across northwest Louisiana and beyond. What started in 1954 as a small financial cooperative for International Paper company employees in Springhill, Louisiana, has grown into a $770 million institution serving more than 45,000 members across 13 locations.

This post covers the two prerequisites needed (a desktop assistant and an AI IDE), how they connect through a straightforward file bridge, why this pattern is a good fit for public sector constraints, and what to keep in mind when it comes to cost.

This post provides a decision framework and technical guidance to help database administrators and architects navigate the transition facing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who run workloads on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program has hosted the Common Crawl open repository of web data at no cost since January 2012. It has become one of the most important sources of training data for the large language models (LLMs) reshaping industries. This is the story of a 14-year collaboration between a small nonprofit and AWS, and how open data infrastructure became the foundation of the AI era.

This post shows how to build that on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Amazon Bedrock, deployed in AWS GovCloud (US). You’ll deploy a working multi-agent workload, see how a supervisor coordinates specialized agents through the Converse API in Amazon Bedrock, and learn which AWS GovCloud (US) details break patterns copied from commercial Regions.

Learn how Forseti, a public safety technology company, built the Honest Assessment Response Tool (HART) to meet survivors in that moment. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), HART digitizes on-scene domestic violence risk screening, connects survivors to services in real time, and gives state agencies population-level visibility into intimate partner violence patterns.

Learn how Amazon PreDepart has successfully met the technical requirements of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) TechCert Programme for information technology integration and interoperability with UPU technology.

Whether it’s checking when the next bus, train, or ferry departs, finding out about a freeway closure, or getting a broken-down car towed off the Bay Bridge, the region’s 511 traveler information service is a critical public resource. Its phone service runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using services Amazon Connect Customer and Amazon Lex.

This post describes the program for the 2026 cycle, the services it covers, and how eligible campaigns and committees can enroll. Since AWS first joined DDC in 2020 and expanded the offering in 2022 and again in 2024, eligible campaigns and committees of any size and on either side of the aisle have used these services to protect the data, identities, and applications they rely on through Election Day.