Category: Public Sector

On March 26, 2025, nonprofit and technology leaders gathered at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits, hosted at Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, VA, to connect with peers, share success stories, explore ideas, and discover new ways to use technology for the greater good. In this post, we will share the key announcements, highlights, and takeaways from the event.

Public entities must make sure that their digital content is accessible for people with disabilities. PDF documents can present challenging accessibility issues. In this post, we discuss an innovative, open source, and AI-driven solution to automate the remediation of these PDFs and bring them into compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 standards.

Generative AI, machine learning (ML), and cloud technologies are revolutionizing the way we work. To succeed in the workforce, proficiency in these technologies is becoming increasingly important. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we understand the challenges of acquiring new skills and have developed innovative, gamified solutions to make learning more engaging and effective.

Through a strategic collaboration with AWS and DailiTech Co., King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) developed and delivered a prospective students virtual assistant “Knowva,” a generative AI application powered by Amazon Bedrock. Read this post to learn more about this

The US Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly relies on commercial efforts to adopt and integrate novel and emerging technologies that are critical for mission success. The modern defense landscape evolves rapidly, and industry collaboration is a key component of success. AWS has risen to the challenge to fulfill this commercial- and collaborative-focused approach to advancing military innovation. Most recently, AWS did so through its participation in the Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) series of events with partner General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT),

Many government agencies, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), participate in the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program. In this post, we discuss how to use NOAA datasets in the Registry of Open Data on AWS using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

Saint Louis University’s journey from supporting a single researcher to enabling a university-wide cloud-powered research ecosystem didn’t happen overnight. In this blog, we highlight seven key strategies that helped drive this transformation.

In a landmark partnership that promises to transform both health sciences research and athletics, the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the establishment of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by AWS. Read this post to learn more.

A collaboration between the UK’s Bedfordshire Police and AWS resulted in rapid deployment of high-impact, cloud-based solutions that free up officer and staff time and resources. This has helped officers to better serve communities and victims. Based on cloud technology, the model is easily replicable by other law-enforcement organizations.

In this post, we walk through a step-by-step guide to building your own Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution on AWS, complete with open-source instructions and best practices. Learn how to harness the same technological foundations that power enterprise-grade proposal automation while maintaining security, compliance, and content quality.