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Articles on managed AWS operations for public sector, AWS GovCloud workloads, the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, FedRAMP-aligned posture, and architectural patterns for institutional CMS workloads on AWS.
39 articles
The AWS Shared Responsibility Gap: What Government IT Directors Are Still Getting Wrong
Most government agencies running AWS understand that Amazon secures the physical infrastructure. What they consistently underestimate is what sits above the hypervisor — and who is responsible for it when something goes wrong.
Five Failure Modes of Cascade Website Hosting in Higher Education
Cascade publishes content reliably. The production hosting environment that receives the published output fails in five specific ways during enrollment cycles, and the symptoms are predictable.
Drupal on AWS GovCloud vs Azure Government: The Institutional Decision Filter
Both AWS GovCloud and Azure Government run institutional Drupal workloads at FedRAMP scale. The decision between them is not about which cloud is better. It is about which cloud fits the agency's existing stack, identity model, procurement, and operational maturity.
Preparing Public-Sector Teams for Cloud Migration: Five Things That Actually Matter
Cloud migration in public-sector institutions is more about people than technology. The migrations that succeed share five operational practices around team preparation. The migrations that struggle skip them.
Amazon EC2 for Public-Sector Workloads: When and Why It Fits
Amazon EC2 is the foundation of most public-sector AWS adoption, but the structural fit depends on the workload pattern. For institutional applications requiring traditional server runtimes, EC2 with appropriate operational discipline is the right answer.
Cloud Security Compliance for Public Sector: What Shared Responsibility Actually Means
Cloud security compliance in public-sector contexts requires understanding what the cloud provider's authorization covers, what the institution's authorization has to cover, and the operational practice that produces audit evidence on a continuous basis.
AWS for Nonprofits: The Programs and Discounts That Actually Move the Cost Curve
AWS publishes nonprofit-specific programs (the Nonprofit Credit Program, IMAGINE Grant, public-sector pricing) that reduce the AWS cost line for eligible institutions. This is what those programs actually deliver and what the institutional eligibility requires.
AWS Cloud Computing in 2020: Why the Pandemic Year Accelerated Public-Sector Adoption
The 2020 pandemic year accelerated public-sector cloud adoption by years. AWS specifically benefited from the procurement and operational characteristics that fit pandemic-era institutional needs.
AWS Cloud Hosting for Public-Sector Workloads: An Architecture Reference
AWS hosting decisions for public-sector workloads come down to four architectural patterns. Picking the right one is mostly a function of compliance posture, traffic profile, and operational ownership.
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