AWS Public Sector Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

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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.

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5 ways AWS empowers GovTech innovation in 2025

HAQM Web Services (AWS) has been a trusted collaborator and advisor to GovTechs for years, providing the tools, expertise, and support they need to build and grow their solutions effectively. In this blog post, we discuss five key ways AWS supports GovTechs in their mission to serve government agencies and citizens.

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AWS supports Connecting for Better Health with the 2025 IMAGINE Grant to advance data exchange in health and social care

Connecting for Better Health (C4BH) is a nonprofit coalition focused on advancing health and social services data sharing to improve the overall health of Californians. To support this mission, AWS has awarded the 2024-2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant: Go Further, Go Faster to C4BH for their Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Community Sandbox. This grant is part of an AWS initiative to empower nonprofit organizations using technology to address global challenges and will provide vital support to enhance health and social services data sharing efforts across healthcare and social service partners.

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Hosting regulated U.S. State and Local Government Workloads in AWS

U.S. State and Local Government (SLG) organizations often have requirements to host regulated workloads with distinct compliance requirements. HAQM Web Services (AWS) provides U.S. SLG customers with an approach to meet compliance needs by using AWS GovCloud (US) regions or AWS U.S. commercial regions. In this post, we will explain how some U.S. SLG regulated workloads can be hosted in the AWS U.S. commercial regions.

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Leverage generative AI for biocuration using HAQM Bedrock and HAQM Nova foundation models

Personalized therapy for diseases such as cancer utilizes an individual’s unique genomic profile to guide treatment decisions. However, the effect and clinical significance of most genetic variants are uncertain. Accurate classification of the clinical significance of novel genetic variants requires extensive curation of peer-reviewed biomedical literature. In recent years, generative AI has demonstrated promising results in information extraction and text summarization. In this post, we explore how various AWS-native solutions can be used to create a secure, retrieval-augmented, and cost-effective biomedical chatbot designed to facilitate biocuration.

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How Fair Trade USA uses AWS to improve working conditions for farmers

Fair Trade USA™ is a nonprofit organization that is committed to eliminating poverty by promoting sustainable development through ethical trade. They work to ensure fair compensation, safe working conditions for farmers and workers, and sustainable farming practices. In this post, you’ll learn how Fair Trade USA leverages HAQM Web Services (AWS) to improve working conditions for farmers and producers around the world.

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How to safeguard healthcare data privacy using HAQM Bedrock Guardrails

As more and more healthcare companies use their data to remain competitive, protecting patient data is as critical than ever. With increasing adoption of AI/ML models in healthcare, making sure that these technologies comply with privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR has become a top priority. HAQM Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides unified access to a diverse selection of high-performance foundation models from industry-leading AI companies. In this post, we walk you through the importance of healthcare data privacy and how to use HAQM Bedrock Guardrails to safeguard sensitive information in AI-driven healthcare solutions.

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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.

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AWS Marketplace assessed ‘Awardable’ for DoD work in the P1 Solutions Marketplace

HAQM Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that AWS Marketplace has received “Awardable” status in the Department of Defense (DoD) Platform One (P1) Solutions Marketplace. This designation enables DoD organizations to readily access and procure solutions through AWS Marketplace using established acquisition pathways.