Several U.S. government, commercial and academic organizations have vowed to provide high-performance computing resources to support COVID-19 research and development efforts worldwide through a newly formed public-private consortium.

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Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business and a 2020 Wash100  awardee, said the company will contribute up to $20M to a new program aimed at helping customers research and develop diagnostic tools for detecting the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.

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Tyler Technologies has agreed with Amazon Web Services to use the latter’s cloud offerings as a basis for the development of the former’s future technologies to support public sector clients.

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Amazon Web Services has partnered with the Virginia community to implement its cloud computing curriculum to select universities within the state, Bizjournals.com reported Friday.

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Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said during her keynote address at the AWS Public Sector Summit that the company’s ongoing work with the Department of Defense and the intelligence community indicates its ability to meet the requirements for the $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program.

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Amazon Web Services intends to launch a degree program for its collaborative effort with Northern Virginia Community College to promote digital and cloud-related skills training, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her efforts to use cloud-based platforms and applications to inspire innovation in government markets. This marks Carlson’s fifth consecutive Wash100 win.

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Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, told SiliconANGLE Media in an interview published Wednesday about the changes she has seen in the public sector when it comes to cloud adoption. “One of the big changes I’ve seen in the last 18 months is state and local government. [They’re] really looking at applications and solutions that can change citizen services engagement,” she told SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio theCUBE.

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The FBI uses an Amazon Web Services-hosted cloud computing environment to process classified and unclassified data for counterterrorism investigations, Nextgov reported Thursday. The bureau adopted cloud technology nearly two years ago in response to data-related concerns. Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS’ global public sector business, said the company’s platform offers FBI access to big data […] More

The FBI, World Bank and U.K.’s Home Office have used Amazon Web Services‘ cloud technology in efforts to make data-based decisions in real time, YourStory reported Wednesday. “We listened to our customers in the government to ramp up disaster recovery and reduce cost of completion while launching new applications,” said Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS’ worldwide […] More

The National Institutes of Health has partnered with Amazon Web Services to help agency-backed researchers incorporate cloud-based technologies into biomedical research efforts. AWS said Tuesday it will host various NIH data sets, such as those covered by privacy and security policies, as part of the Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability initiative. Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has emphasized the company’s work with government clients to help them implement technology that can aid their missions, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “They need to have the most innovative and cutting-edge tools they can,” Carlson was quoted as saying. She noted […] More