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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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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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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. 

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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.

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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.

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Near real-time dashboards from a source database to a cloud data warehouse on AWS

Organizations require solutions for real time or near real time dashboards that can be provided to their customers without impacting their database performance or service level agreements (SLAs) to their end users. In this post, we showcase the integration of HAQM Web Services (AWS) capabilities to present an end-to-end architecture for this data flow.

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Reduce IT costs by implementing automatic shutdown for HAQM EC2 instances

To remain viable and continue to fulfill their mission, educational institutions are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT costs while maintaining high-quality services. One often overlooked area for potential savings is the management of cloud resources, particularly HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances. Many universities and colleges find themselves facing unexpected costs when EC2 instances are left running during off-peak hours or periods of inactivity. In this post, we explore how higher education customers can implement automatic shutdown mechanisms for EC2 instances, significantly reducing cloud expenses.

How startups PointHealth AI and Protege transform health treatment recommendations with AI on AWS

How startups PointHealth AI and Protege transform health treatment recommendations with AI on AWS

PointHealth AI, a healthcare technology (HealthTech) startup, and Protege, a data innovator specializing in artificial intelligence (AI)-ready datasets, are working with HAQM Web Services (AWS) to combine de-identified demographic and clinical information from millions of patient records, in order to deliver more precise and informed treatment recommendations. This data-informed strategy aims to give doctors the information they need to prescribe the right care for a patient’s unique needs—on the first try.

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Enhancing resource sharing with AWS Outposts

In this post, we explore how AWS services, open source software, and bespoke source code can help address resource sharing enhancements requested by public sector customers using AWS Outposts. This solution aims to provide greater flexibility, control, and cost management for organizations leveraging Outposts in multi-account environments, specifically focusing on key AWS resources, including HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2), HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS), and HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) on Outposts.