AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: HAQM EC2
Detect and investigate HAQM EC2 malware with HAQM GuardDuty and HAQM Detective
In this post, we demonstrate how to use the advanced malware detection features of HAQM GuardDuty to uncover malicious and suspicious files compromising your HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances. We use the investigative capabilities of HAQM Detective to gain deeper insights into the security event. After the key questions about the security event are addressed, we outline steps to remediate the potentially compromised EC2 instance.
Change.org’s Ray-based recommender on HAQM EKS increases petition signatures by 30%
Read this post to learn how Change.org built a next-generation recommender on AWS that turned more awareness into action—boosting petition signatures by 30 percent.
California Credit Union enhances disaster recovery and backup of Fiserv DNA core banking system on AWS
California Credit Union successfully used AWS to enhance its disaster recovery and backup capabilities for its core banking system, Fiserv DNA. This post explores how the credit union overcame challenges, improved its resilience, and set the stage for future innovations in financial services.
Tagging governance using AWS Organizations in the public sector
When Department of the Air Force (DAF) software factories scale their cloud operations across mission-critical environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging becomes crucial for security, compliance, and operational effectiveness. For organizations like Kessel Run, a unit that provides capabilities within the DAF Battle Network, ensuring compliance while maintaining rapid deployment capabilities is essential for delivering capabilities to warfighters. In this post, we discuss a solution that enabled Kessel Run to enforce tagging standards at resource creation while supporting their complex deployment patterns.
Accelerating Alzheimer’s disease research through AWS cloud computing powered large-scale functional genomics analysis
Dr. Gao Wang’s innovative research at Columbia University, powered by AWS cloud computing, represents a cutting-edge approach to understanding Alzheimer’s disease through functional genetics. Read this post to learn more.
UTHealth Houston’s iDFax revolutionizes medical fax management with HAQM Bedrock
In this post, we will discuss how MSBMI and CDHI joined forces to address UTHealth Houston’s reliance on faxing. The MSBMI and CDHI team—supported by UTHealth Houston Information Technology and HAQM Web Services (AWS)—built, deployed, and migrated a new solution called iDFax.
AWS accelerates digital public infrastructure adoption with automation
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.
HAQM EC2 Spot Instances for scientific workflows: Using generative AI to assess availability
In recent years, public sector organizations have found success running their scientific data processing workloads on HAQM 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. HAQM EC2 Spot Instances presents a compelling option to run unused HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM 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 HAQM Q Business to develop an enhanced Spot Instance analysis.
Govplace helps NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis scale on demand and reduce research costs on AWS
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.
Test and integrate ground segment with AWS Ground Station digital twin
HAQM Web Services (AWS) customers building software-defined ground segment solutions with the AWS Ground Station now have more confidence in their solution: they can integrate their DevOps practices with AWS Ground Station’s digital twin feature, which became generally available in August. The digital twin is useful for both aspiring and existing AWS Ground Station customers to achieve faster outcomes without applying for satellite licensing and more cost-effectively than scheduling a production satellite contact. Read this post to learn more.