Industry Spotlight: Public Sector & Government

Key concepts

1. 1
   Sovereign cloud and data residency
2. 2
   IRAP / Essential Eight / FedRAMP / IL5
3. 3
   Citizen-facing AI assistants
4. 4
   Defense and intelligence workloads
5. 5
   Workforce upskilling at scale

Key AWS services

• AWS GovCloud
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• Amazon Bedrock
• AWS Skill Builder

Learn more — curated resources

Hand-picked official docs, foundational papers, and the best community guides for going deeper on this topic.

• AWS Public Sector
• AWS for Government
• IRAP — Australian Government

Sessions on this topic

7 sessions from the Summit covered this topic. Each is a self-contained mini-lesson.

1. SEC305Advanced

   Advanced AI Security: Architecting Defense-in-Depth for AI Workloads

   Dive deep into advanced security architectures for AI workloads, exploring how to protect your workload against sophisticated attack vectors. Through technical examples, we'll implement secure architectures for AI workloads, covering identity, fine-grained access policies, and secure foundation model deployment patterns. Learn how to harden generative and agentic AI applications using AWS security capabilities, implementing least-privilege controls, and building secure architectures at scale.

2. SEC301Advanced

   Inside the Attack Chain: Emerging Threat Actor Tactics and Techniques

   Get up to speed on emerging threat actor tactics and techniques across the attack chain. In this session, we'll expound upon methods of Initial Access, Persistence, Defense Evasion, Lateral Movement, and Impact. You'll gain practical knowledge of specific configurations to detect and mitigate these threats, and learn common misconfigurations to avoid.

3. SEC401Expert

   Advanced AI Security: Architecting Defense-in-Depth for AI Workloads

   Dive deep into advanced security architectures for AI workloads, exploring how to protect your workload against sophisticated attack vectors. Through technical examples, we'll implement secure architectures for AI workloads, covering identity, fine-grained access policies, and secure foundation model deployment patterns. Learn how to harden generative and agentic AI applications using AWS security capabilities, implementing least-privilege controls, and building secure architectures at scale.

4. ARC201Intermediate

   Building on AWS resilience: Innovations for critical success

   Essential services that power global economies and critical infrastructure demand exceptional resilience. Through nearly two decades of focused innovation, AWS has developed core engineering practices and operational approaches that power critical workloads worldwide. Explore how AWS's architectural innovations and organizational practices help customers build robust services that maintain resilience during severe disruptions. Learn how AWS's continued investment in resilience provides the foundation for delivering essential services across governments, economies, and critical infrastructure.

5. PRT108-SFoundational

   From Experiment to Production: Unlock AI Deployment Bottlenecks

   How fast can AI drive results Banks seek competitive advantage while staying compliant, and the public sector aims to enhance citizen services and boost productivity. In this session, we demonstrate how Synthetic Data and robust AI Governance operationalise AI with confidence. Learn how SAS Viya on AWS enables effective deployment, unlocking faster, better decisions through a proven AI framework.

6. WPS302Advanced

   Secure and Resilient Agentic AI for High-Assurance Environments

   Autonomous AI systems that plan, decide, and act across workflows are transforming how organisations deliver mission-critical services. This session shares security-first architecture best practices for designing, deploying, and governing agentic AI in high-assurance environments, drawing from Australia's Information Security Manual (ISM) and AWS security frameworks. Discover practical patterns for architecting proactive, intelligent services while maintaining security, transparency, and operational resilience through defense-in-depth strategies and purpose-built AWS capabilities.

7. WPS202Intermediate

   Secure and Resilient Agentic AI for High-Assurance Environments

   As governments worldwide race to modernise services, agentic AI based autonomous systems that plan, decide, and act across workflowsis emerging as a game-changer. This session delivers a compliance-first blueprint for designing, deploying, and governing agentic AI in the Australian public sector, fully aligned with Australias Information Security Manual (ISM) and national AI standards. Learn how to transform legacy processes into proactive, citizen-centric services while ensuring security, transparency, and trustwithout regulatory risk.

One sharp, contrarian insight per session — the things teams don't think of unprompted.

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