AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Public Sector
AWS supports Connecting for Better Health with the 2025 IMAGINE Grant to advance data exchange in health and social care
Connecting for Better Health (C4BH) is a nonprofit coalition focused on advancing health and social services data sharing to improve the overall health of Californians. To support this mission, AWS has awarded the 2024-2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant: Go Further, Go Faster to C4BH for their Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Community Sandbox. This grant is part of an AWS initiative to empower nonprofit organizations using technology to address global challenges and will provide vital support to enhance health and social services data sharing efforts across healthcare and social service partners.
Accelerating Alzheimer’s disease research through AWS cloud computing powered large-scale functional genomics analysis
Dr. Gao Wang’s innovative research at Columbia University, powered by AWS cloud computing, represents a cutting-edge approach to understanding Alzheimer’s disease through functional genetics. Read this post to learn more.
Bahrain’s cloud-first success story
Cloud computing, automation, and AI are driving a new wave of modernization in public services. They’re helping to make them more accessible, responsive, and cost-effective. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done. In this blog, we explore how, through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation.
ReliefWeb and AWS distribute life-saving insights faster with generative AI
When natural disasters and conflicts create survival situations, the rapid response of the world’s hundreds of humanitarian organizations saves lives. Those organizations can save even more lives when they acquire information in pace with fast-evolving situations on the ground. AWS is investing $25,000 and providing hands-on engineering support to help the United Nations’ emergency reporting service, ReliefWeb, get up-to-date crisis information to everyone who needs it—and make sure that no situation is forgotten.
Cloud cost savings: 10 tips for academic institutions
For academic institutions leveraging cloud services, it is important to proactively manage and optimize cloud costs. In this post, we explore 10 tips to help control cloud costs using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
How CIMAR’s platform enables a national lung cancer screening program at scale, powered by AWS
In this post, we describe how AWS Partner CIMAR’s medical image management platform is enabling the rapid roll-out, scaling, and operation of the National Health Service (NHS) England’s national lung cancer program, connecting 124 acute NHS trusts and multiple mobile scanning units.
How the AI for Teaching & Learning Framework on AWS is transforming the student and teacher experience
In this blog post, we explore the AI for Teaching & Learning Framework on AWS, and discuss how it is addressing the evolving needs of higher education in the digital age.
How AWS Skill Builder is powering digital skills growth across European institutions
As European institutions race to meet ambitious digital transformation goals for 2024-2029, workforce skills development has become critical. AWS is addressing this challenge head-on with specialized learning solutions designed specifically for EU government professionals. In this post, we explore how AWS Skill Builder is helping create the digitally skilled workforce Europe needs.
Strengthen federal space resilience with AWS Ground Station
In this post, we explore how AWS Ground Station public sector organizations with on-demand access to AWS-managed antennas that are available as shared or dedicated resources, scaling to the unique requirements of the mission. By adding resource capacity and redundancy with AWS-managed antenna systems, government customers can rapidly increase, differentiate, and distribute their ground segment capabilities. This enables a more flexible and resilient space architecture that can dynamically adapt to changing mission demands.
Enhancing decision making for system changes with generative AI
In this post, we explore an innovative solution—developed by Booz Allen, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Services Partner—that uses Amazon Bedrock-powered generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the decision-making process for system changes.