Executive Mosaic is excited to present Max Peterson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector, with his second Wash100 Award in recognition of his leading role in carrying AWS’ cloud innovation to new heights while solidifying the Amazon business arm’s standing as a key technology provider for the federal government. In its historic 10th year, […] More

Max Peterson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, the most acclaimed and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership with AWS to drive cloud adoption and capabilities across the globe as well as driving innovation for the […] More

Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, said AWS launched an innovation studio that will work with policymakers, public sector organizations, academia, industry leaders and citizens to address climate change, education inequality, sustainability, housing insecurity and other societal issues. Peterson wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the AWS Innovation […] More

Max Peterson, a general manager at Amazon Web Services‘ global public sector business, has said the cloud computing market could create as many as 14 million new jobs during 2015, BusinessNewsAsia reported Wednesday. “Cloud represents a huge opportunity for good jobs and economic development,” Peterson told the audience during his keynote speech Wednesday at Cloud Expo Asia […] More

Amazon Web Services has become a member of the nonprofit IJIS Institute and will provide leadership, expertise and financial support for the institute’s national information sharing and safeguarding efforts. The IJIS Institute said Thursday its programs are aimed at the law enforcement, homeland security and public safety sectors. “We’re looking forward to taking advantage of the opportunity IJIS […] More

Max Peterson serves as director and general manager for Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, with responsibility in forming partnerships with system integrators, service providers, independent software vendors and value added resellers. At AWS, Peterson leads a team that works to identify and capture public sector contracts and perform program management before and after the […] More

Government business leaders at Amazon Web Services and ServiceNow, said education programs and flexible work arrangements are among the ways for agencies to develop and retain information technology professionals, FedTech Magazine reported Monday. Max Peterson, vice president of the worldwide public sector unit at AWS and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, emphasized the importance for […] More

Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud region designed to host data and workloads with the “Top Secret” classification status. The AWS Top Secret-West region is the second commercial air-gapped cloud authorized for classified workloads and features new multiple availability zones that are geographically detached from the AWS Top Secret-East region that was unveiled […] More

More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.

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BMC‘s cloud-based digital service management application has been certified under the U.S. governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program that makes the product available to federal agencies. The Agriculture Department-sponsored Remedy OnDemand service for federal agencies will use the FedRAMP-certified Amazon Web Services cloud to provide IT service management options to help clients meet mission requirements, BMC said Wednesday. “Security […] More

Digital Reasoning is included on CIO Review magazine’s list of the “20 most promising defense technology solution providers” in the U.S. for 2015. The publication honored Digital Reasoning for the company’s efforts to help defense customers examine huge amounts of unstructured data with its cognitive computing analytics platform Synthesys, the company said Tuesday. “We have proven our ability to perform […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has joined Amazon Web Services‘ partner network to deliver integrated cloud computing offerings in the private and public sectors. Charles Onstott, vice president for cyber, cloud and data science at SAIC, said Thursday that the partnership with AWS is part of SAIC’s cloud portfolio growth strategy. “The ability to successfully integrate emerging […] More