AWS Use Cases for Government & Enterprise
A&T Systems helps government and commercial customers use Amazon Web Services to modernize applications, improve resilience, strengthen security, manage data, automate operations, and introduce new digital and artificial intelligence capabilities.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with AWS Government Competency, A&T works with customers to select AWS architectures and services based on mission requirements, security obligations, performance, resilience, operational complexity, and cost.
Application Migration & Modernization
Organizations can use AWS to migrate existing applications, modernize legacy infrastructure, and adopt cloud-native architectures where appropriate.
- Datacenter-to-cloud migration
- Application rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring
- Windows and Linux workload migration
- Database modernization
- Cloud-native application development
- Container and serverless architectures
- Infrastructure automation
Government & Mission Applications
AWS environments can support government-facing and mission-support applications requiring scalable infrastructure, resilient architecture, centralized monitoring, and strong security controls.
- Citizen and constituent services
- Government business applications
- Case and workflow management
- Public-facing web applications
- Internal mission-support systems
- Development and testing environments
- Secure application hosting
AWS GovCloud (US) Workloads
AWS GovCloud (US) supports eligible government organizations, contractors, and regulated customers with workloads requiring elevated security, compliance, and data-handling controls.
- Regulated and sensitive workloads
- Controlled Unclassified Information environments
- Mission-critical applications
- Secure data processing
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Analytics and AI workloads
- Government application modernization
Backup, Recovery & Resilience
AWS can support backup, recovery, archive, and disaster-recovery strategies for cloud and hybrid environments. A&T helps customers design recovery architectures around application criticality, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, data-retention requirements, and operational priorities.
- Cloud backup
- Long-term data retention
- Application recovery
- Disaster recovery
- Multi-Availability Zone architectures
- Multi-Region resilience strategies
- Recovery testing and operational readiness
Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence
AWS provides services for collecting, storing, processing, analyzing, and protecting structured and unstructured data. These capabilities can support operational reporting, advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI solutions.
- Data lakes and centralized data repositories
- Data integration and processing
- Business intelligence and reporting
- Advanced analytics
- Machine learning
- Generative AI
- Secure AI application integration
Generative AI & Intelligent Applications
AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock can support development of generative AI applications using foundation models while integrating with existing cloud applications, data, identity, and security controls.
A&T helps customers evaluate generative AI use cases based on mission value, data sensitivity, security, governance, model selection, operational requirements, and responsible adoption.
- Enterprise knowledge assistants
- Document analysis and summarization
- Search and information discovery
- Workflow automation
- Application modernization assistance
- Data analysis and decision support
- Secure generative AI architectures
Development, DevOps & Automation
AWS can provide development teams with repeatable environments and automation capabilities for application delivery and infrastructure management.
- Development and test environments
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated deployment
- Configuration management
- DevSecOps integration
- Application and infrastructure monitoring
Hybrid Cloud & Datacenter Integration
Not every workload needs to move entirely to the public cloud. A&T helps customers integrate AWS with existing datacenters, networks, security platforms, identity systems, and operational processes.
- Hybrid application architectures
- Secure cloud connectivity
- Datacenter integration
- Identity federation
- Centralized monitoring
- Hybrid backup and recovery
- Workload placement planning
Security, Compliance & Modernization
AWS can support modernization of security architectures through centralized identity, encryption, logging, monitoring, configuration management, automation, and continuous security assessment. A&T helps customers align cloud security controls with applicable contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
- Identity and access management
- Least-privilege access
- Encryption and key management
- Network security
- Centralized logging and monitoring
- Security configuration management
- Threat detection and response
- Compliance-support activities
Enterprise Applications
AWS can host and support enterprise applications requiring scalable compute, storage, databases, connectivity, monitoring, and resilient infrastructure. A&T helps customers evaluate whether applications should be migrated, modernized, retained in a hybrid model, or redesigned for cloud-native operation.
- Business applications
- Enterprise databases
- Collaboration and workflow systems
- Customer-facing applications
- Mission-support applications
- Application hosting platforms
- Development and test environments
Cloud Financial Management & Optimization
AWS consumption-based services require ongoing governance and financial management. A&T helps customers establish visibility into cloud usage, allocate costs, forecast demand, identify optimization opportunities, and evaluate purchasing options.
- Cost and usage analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Resource tagging and allocation
- Rightsizing
- Utilization analysis
- Savings Plans and commitment analysis
- Ongoing cloud optimization
Managed AWS Operations
A&T can support AWS environments after deployment through managed operations, security monitoring, service management, performance management, backup, recovery, and continuous optimization.
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Systems administration
- Patch and configuration management
- Backup and recovery management
- Incident and problem management
- Performance and capacity management
- Security monitoring
- Continuous improvement
Selecting the Right AWS Use Case
The appropriate AWS architecture depends on more than whether a workload can technically run in the cloud. A&T evaluates business and mission requirements, data sensitivity, security, compliance, performance, availability, connectivity, lifecycle cost, operational support, and modernization objectives before recommending an AWS approach.
For additional information, see AWS Cloud Solutions and Cloud Computing & Datacenter Services.