AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
State of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer Family
In this post, we walk through how OSM partnered with Sierra-Cedar, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to design, build, and deploy FileVault—a secure file transfer solution powered by AWS Transfer Family and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—while preserving the user experience that state employees already knew and trusted.
Digital Earth Africa and AWS are making satellite data work for Africa
Amazon Web Services (AWS), through the Open Data on AWS and Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) programs, became a foundational collaborator from the outset, hosting Digital Earth Africa’s data on AWS infrastructure in Cape Town, South Africa, and enabling African users to access and analyze petabytes of satellite data at a speed and scale that would otherwise be out of reach.
Building machine-readable FedRAMP 20x evidence on AWS
In this post, we walk through the evidence pipeline, from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Config evaluations and AWS Security Hub findings through transformation and storage, to producing the dual-format output that satisfies FedRAMP 20x Phase 2 completeness requirements.
Architecting HIPAA-compliant AI agents to safeguard health data with AWS
In this post, we share a reference AWS architecture that healthcare organizations, health plans, and state agencies can use to deploy AI agents while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
Run SAP workloads at DoD Impact Level 5 with SAP NS2 on AWS GovCloud (US)
In this post, we explain what IL5 requires, how AWS GovCloud (US) and SAP NS2 meet those requirements together, and how defense organizations can get started.
Deploy AI agents in AWS GovCloud (US) using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this blog, learn more about the availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government and regulated industries a fully managed solution to build, deploy, and operate AI agents at production scale, without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This launch is part of Amazon’s broader commitment to invest more than $50 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure, giving government customers access to the same cutting-edge AI capabilities available in commercial Regions.
Distributed generative AI for government
A distributed approach, one that brings generative AI to the data rather than the reverse, is achievable today using Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions such as Amazon Bedrock for orchestration, Amazon Neptune for data lineage, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for source-point security enforcement.
Safekeeping your data anywhere: How AWS and Expando help European governments protect data from the edge to the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is collaborating with Expando, a Swedish defense technology company, to help European public sector organizations build exactly that kind of layered, resilient data infrastructure. Together, AWS and Expando offer a connected approach to data protection that spans rugged edge deployments, disconnected field operations, customer-owned secure locations, and the full power of the AWS Cloud.
Transforming Public Sector Procurement with Agentic AI on AWS
This post explores how an agentic AI architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) modernizes the procurement lifecycle from solicitation to proposal evaluation while maintaining compliance with government regulations including United States of America FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation),United States of America DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation), and Canadian procurement frameworks (Public Service Procurement Canada (PSPC) /Shared Services Canada (SSC).
Implementing per-user token guardrails for Amazon Bedrock in government agencies
This post presents two complementary patterns for implementing per-user token guardrails on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS).









