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How HAQM Bedrock helped the UK’s Governors for Schools generate meaningful insights

Governors for Schools is a charity operating across England and Wales to find and place volunteers on school and academy governing boards. HAQM Web Services (AWS) has worked with Governors for Schools by providing financial support, in addition to more than 100 AWS employees applying to take on school governance roles, providing much needed technical expertise in education. But in this post, we explain how Governors for Schools used HAQM Bedrock to process unstructured documents and generate meaningful insights into UK schools.

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Building your first generative AI conversational experience on AWS

HAQM Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of options for building chat-based assistants with generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The goal of this post is to present in simple words some of these options and what to keep in mind to decide which to use and how to get started.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with HAQM Bedrock

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. From naturalization procedures to asylum applications and university admissions, many crucial processes still rely on manual or partially manual methods, leading to significant backlogs, extended processing times, and increased costs. This post explores how HAQM Bedrock can be used to address these challenges, focusing on streamlining naturalization applications.

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Working backwards from generative AI business value in the public sector

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the imagination of organizations across industries, promising to revolutionize workflows and drive innovation. As public sector entities explore this transformative technology, a critical challenge emerges: identifying and prioritizing high-value use cases that align with specific business objectives and delivering measurable outcomes. In this post, we present an HAQM Web Services (AWS) framework to help public sector organizations navigate generative AI adoption and unlock its true potential.

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Deploying AWS Modular Data Center: From ordering to delivery and installation

The HAQM Web Services (AWS) Modular Data Center (MDC) is a service that enables rapid deployment of AWS managed data centers for running location- or latency-sensitive applications in locations with limited infrastructure. It reduces deployment time in remote areas and supports up to five racks of AWS Outposts or AWS Snow Family devices. In this post, we guide you through the end-to-end process of deploying the MDC at your site.

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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation

The Generative AI Sandbox on AWS, powered by HAQM Bedrock Studio, provides a secure, governed, and isolated environment for organizations to explore the power of large language models (LLMs) and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities. Bedrock Studio users can test different LLMs side by side to understand which ones best suit their specific use cases: from drafting policy documents to analyzing public feedback, or creating educational content.

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Add network agility and security with AWS Direct Connect MACsec encryption and AWS Support

Customers with sensitive hybrid workloads can take advantage of an additional security feature available in HAQM Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect dedicated connections: MACsec encryption (IEEE 802.1AE). In this post, we explore how Direct Connect can handle architectural changes, such as adding or isolating different networks. We also cover adding an additional account boundary for security purposes, and how customers can move their Direct Connect connection to that new account.

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Implementing a unified search platform for educational content on HAQM OpenSearch Service

This post discusses how HAQM Web Services (AWS) can help you set up a unified search platform for educational content using HAQM OpenSearch Service. HAQM OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. With digital learning becoming increasingly popular, managing a vast amount of educational data can be challenging. A unified search platform enables users to search across multiple indexes at once, providing a centralized view of all available resources.

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Simplify satellite contact reporting with the AWS Ground Station contacts dashboard

This post shows how HAQM Web Services (AWS) Ground Station customers can start using the Contacts dashboard for AWS Ground Station solution to fulfill their AWS Ground Station reporting and tracking needs. This solution automatically maps AWS Ground Station contacts to their associated costs and provides a feature-rich dashboard reporting capability.

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Using Login.gov as an OIDC IdP with HAQM Cognito user pools

As federal agencies strive to enhance digital services and create a seamless customer experience, integrating robust identity and access management (IAM) solutions has become paramount. HAQM Cognito, a robust user identity management service offered by HAQM Web Services (AWS), provides a secure and scalable solution for managing user authentication and authorization. When combined with Login.gov, a trusted identity platform developed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), federal agencies can unlock a powerful combination that streamlines user access while maintaining the highest levels of security and compliance.