AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Public Sector
The future of financial regulation: How technology makes finance safer
Read this post to learn about a new white paper produced by Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR), and supported by AWS, which offers guidance that supervisory authorities can use to implement Supervisory Technology (SupTech).
Empowering AWS Partners to expand their platforms globally
International growth represents a huge potential for AWS Partners. This post covers technical considerations for partners expanding their services to new geographical regions and explains how AWS can assist.
New AWS WickrGov offerings to enable secure, compliant communication on multiple devices
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing two new AWS WickrGov offerings designed to help customers rapidly deploy secure communications capabilities across their organizations.
Accelerating government innovation: Amazon Bedrock models get FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US)
In today’s rapidly evolving security landscape, the technological edge isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. We’re thrilled to share a milestone that will transform how our government customers harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI): AWS is the first cloud provider to achieve FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations for Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama AI foundation models.
Building trust in healthcare data: Real-world interoperability with AWS HealthLake and DataArt
DataArt, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Healthcare Competency Partner, helps clients respond to the regulatory and operational pressures outlined in the previous section. DataArt turns complex data modernization challenges into clear, standards-driven solutions built on AWS HealthLake, a fully managed, HIPAA-eligible FHIR storage, transactional, and analytics service.
Transforming European healthcare: HippocrAItes’ EHDS-ready health data platform
HippocrAItes, Finland-based healthcare data & AI innovation company built the Hippo Health Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), combining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a user-centric approach to health data. The platform unifies data from national repositories and personal devices into a single, secure health account. Read this post to learn more.
Highlights from the 2025 AWS Summit Washington, DC keynote
Cloud infrastructure expansion, agentic AI advancement, and national security initiatives took center stage today during the keynote of the AWS Summit Washington, DC. The annual gathering in the nation’s capital showcased the continued commitment of AWS to public sector innovation and digital transformation.
AWS expands its support of ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health performers
AWS provides innovative health researchers with the agility, adaptivity, and resilience they need to accelerate their research. Because of this, AWS expanded the scope of its commitment to Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Sprint for Women’s Health performers to include its Spark funding track awardees. These awardees focus on transformative early-stage research in women’s health.
Amazon to launch second Secret Cloud Region in 2025
Amazon today announced it will launch its second Secret Cloud Region in 2025. The new AWS Secret-West Region will be accredited to support workloads up to the U.S. Secret classification level. With two regions accredited at the Secret level, defense and national security customers and partners can deploy multi-Region architectures, achieving even higher levels of resiliency and availability essential to their critical missions and enabling AI innovation.
Why government health agencies worldwide are selecting AWS to transform patient care
Healthcare systems around the world are facing unprecedented challenges, from addressing chronic conditions to supporting aging populations and addressing emerging health threats, and it has become unmistakably clear that technology is no longer just a support function—it’s a force-multiplier that can transform health outcomes. At AWS, we’ve witnessed a remarkable shift as health agencies worldwide increasingly choose cloud computing to drive innovation, enhance research capabilities, and ultimately, improve patient outcomes.