As Amazon continues to infiltrate the enterprise with commercial web services, can it translate private sector success for the public sector as a market growth opportunity?

Looking to answer this question and others, SiliconANGLE is at AWS Public Sector Summit, taking place in Washington D.C., with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.) The three-day event brings together government, education and nonprofit technology leaders to discuss cloud computing innovations that are changing some of today’s most regulated organizations.

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud platform is expected to grow to $43 billion by 2022, according to Wikibon Research (Wikibon is owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE). During its first-quarter earnings, cloud services once again helped boost Amazon’s earnings, with Amazon Web Services cloud revenue jumping 43 percent from last year to $3.7 billion. AWS, however, is facing strong competition from Microsoft Corp. with its Azure cloud offering, which surged 94 percent in its third-fiscal-quarter earnings report.

When it comes to the public sector, AWS serves more than 2,300 government, 7,000 education and 22,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide. AWS boasts large clients like the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency, which awarded a $600 million contract to AWS back in 2013.

Many in the public sector are adopting cloud technology, including financial institutions that have seen a sudden move to the cloud, and are looking at companies that have approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. AWS, together with competitors Microsoft Azure and lesser-known CSRA, received FedRAMP approval a year ago, allowing AWS GovCloud, Azure GovCloud and CSRA’s ARC-P IaaS to provide services under the FedRAMP high standards for cloud computing services.

Some of the fastest-growing trends in the public sector’s use of technology are linked to the Internet of Things, with many AWS public sectors, such as justice, transportation and health, finding value in AWS IoT solutions. Agencies at all levels have extensive data coming in from wearable body cameras, various drones, video cameras, sensors on light poles and transportation vehicles, noted Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, during an interview on theCUBE at the AWS re:Invent conference. “By 2020 they think there are 30 billion data points coming in from IoT devices. If you think about that, a lot of that is coming out of the public sector,” said Carlson.

Keynote speakers at AWS Public Sector Summit include Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon; Teresa Carlson; John Edwards, chief information officer at the Central Intelligence Agency; Craig Fox, assistant commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office; and Jeffrey Armstrong, president of the California Polytechnic State University.

Other guest speakers include Melinda Rogers, chief information security officer at the United States Department of Justice; Dr. William Ballhaus, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Blackboard Inc.; Andreas Merkl, president of Ocean Conservancy; and Tom Read, chief digital and information officer Ministry of Justice U.K.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at AWS Public Sector Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage for day one starts today at 09:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. EDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from AWS Public Sector Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from AWS Public Sector Summit, which runs until June 14, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Tuesday, June 13

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at AWS Public Sector Summit include Josh Stella, founder and chief executive officer of Fugue Inc.; John Stephenson, senior manager, AWS public policy, at AWS; and Marlin McFate, advanced technology group, office of the chief technology officer at Riverbed Technology Inc.

Other guests include Intel Corp. executives Melvin Greer, director of data science and analytics; and John Galvin, vice president, general manager of Intel public sector.

Tuesday’s guest lineup also includes Jay Littlepage, vice president, infrastructure and operations at DigitalGlobe Inc.; Jeff Ralyea, senior vice president and general manager of cloud at Ellucian Inc.; Max Peterson, general manager EMEA, LATAM, international partners and contracts, worldwide public sector at AWS; and Andre Pienaar, chairman and founder of C5 Capital Ltd.

Wednesday, June 14

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE includes AWS Public Sector Summit keynote speaker Teresa Carlson.

Other guests include Jeff McAllister, vice president of sales for Americas at Druva Inc.; Davis Johnson, vice president of U.S. public sector at Riverbed; and Enlighten IT Consulting Inc. executives Tim Israel, director of cloud engineering, and John Eubank, director of program management.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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