Tag: digital transformation

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.

In September 2021, Japan took a leap with the establishment of its Digital Agency and the creation of the government cloud. With the goal to build a society in which no one is left behind by improving convenience, health, and happiness through digital technology, Japan’s Digital Agency represents the nation’s bold commitment to digital innovation across government and society. In June 2024, two cloud engineers from the Digital Agency, Kazuma Takeda and Shinichi Nishihata, shared their process and learnings at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit Japan, the largest AWS learning event in the country. For those who were unable to attend or watch virtually, this post summarizes their presentation.

Earlier this month, for the first time, the IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference was hosted in Australia in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. This event brought together leaders, technologists, and mission-driven innovators in the nonprofit sector to learn, connect, and inspire. Over the three days, attendees explored the ways technology helps nonprofits make a positive impact around the world. Read this post to learn about some of the top moments from IMAGINE: Nonprofit Australia.

This post addresses eight common misconceptions about cloud computing held by Canadian public sector organizations. It covers cloud security, cost savings, value beyond expenses, and cloud providers’ investments in Canada. The insights shared will equip public sector leaders to make informed decisions and leverage cloud computing’s potential.

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) faced a significant challenge: the need to perform complex fuzzy string matching across two different datasets. IRCC embarked on a transformative project that redefined its data processing capabilities and showcased the power of cloud computing in overcoming substantial data challenges. Instead of dealing with months of undifferentiated heavy lifting activities, IRCC successfully used Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to complete the work in a only few days. Read this post to learn more.

The potential of open data to transform governance and public services is immense, but realizing this potential requires overcoming common obstacles. In this post, we will explore best practices and solutions for Canadian public sector organizations seeking to use the cloud for open data, specifically examining how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can enable open data success.

Governments encourage public sector organizations, businesses, and citizens to embrace digital technologies and practices through a range of incentives. These incentives standardize processes and motivate behaviors that achieve the objectives of these initiatives in a way that can be sustained over time. This post, written by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) government transformation advisor, highlights 10 ways that governments use incentives to accelerate successful digital transformation. 

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing public agencies by streamlining services and providing valuable insights from large datasets. However, adding generative AI to your agency is not a simple process. SMX, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, helped one nonprofit agency build a robust architecture in the AWS Cloud that provided them the foundation for building and implementing generative AI tools. In this guest post, experts from SMX explain five best practices they used to help this agency prepare for generative AI.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Maturity Assessment (CMA) uses the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to assess the maturity of your cloud adoption, and provide prescriptive guidance on prioritized next steps. By replacing guesswork with data-driven analysis, you will get a blueprint to prioritize, build, and mature your cloud capabilities. Read this post to learn more.

The University of Pittsburgh Athletics Department wanted to know more about its fans, so it looked for an innovative solution and turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS). By focusing on fan behavior and seeking out trends in ticket sales, the department hoped to answer questions surrounding team loyalty and how they could stay competitive. This post provides an overview of the powerful solution Pitt Athletics built to engage with and sell to its fanbase.