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AWS supports ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health to advance crucial research and solutions

At HAQM Web Services (AWS), we believe in the power of cloud technology to transform healthcare and improve lives. Because of this, at AWS re:Invent 2024 we announced a commitment of up to $2 million in AWS credits to help four Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Sprint for Women’s Health launchpad awardees address critical unmet challenges in women’s health.

Announcing the 2024-2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners

The year 2024 was filled with both excitement and thoughtful consideration in the nonprofit sector as the world seeks to understand and apply transformative cloud technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance impact and increase productivity. HAQM Web Services (AWS) is privileged to work alongside organizations in the social sector who are using these tools for the benefit of people and our planet, and who are leading conversations about how to do it responsibly. We’re proud to announce that many of those organizations are AWS IMAGINE Grant winners, representing our largest cohort of recipients to date.

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Empowering public sector innovation: How AWS Partners are accelerating their generative AI adoption

At HAQM Web Services (AWS), we are committed to empowering our partners to accelerate their cloud innovation journeys. Our AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP) is an important part of this commitment, offering comprehensive assessment, training, and enablement to help our public sector partners build successful and profitable AWS-based businesses.

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AWS announces Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts

Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts offers a comprehensive, Partner-managed solution for resilient cloud-connected edge computing that extends the reach of HAQM Web Services (AWS) to the most remote and geographically dispersed environments on earth. AWS Outposts typically run connected to a parent AWS Region for resource management, access control, and software updates. When terrestrial network connectivity between an Outpost and its parent AWS Region is unavailable, this solution routes traffic back to the parent Region over a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connection, supporting business continuity and data residency requirements.

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Moving from AWS CodeCommit or HAQM S3 to external configuration repositories for Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Organizations deploying the Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) on AWS solution, provided by HAQM Web Services (AWS), often face challenges in managing and versioning their configuration files. In this post, we explore how to use GitHub as a configuration file repository for the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution, allowing better version control, collaboration, and automation in your LZA deployments.

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How an open source EMR system has transformed patient healthcare in more than 50 countries

In countries where demand for healthcare outweighs available resources, and populations are spread out in remote locations, open source technologies using HAQM Web Services (AWS) can transform providers’ and patients’ experience. Bahmni, an open source electronic medical records (EMR) system is one that we have pioneered. It gives doctors rapid access to up-to-date health records and test results so that they have better information and more time for patient care. A system that started in a single hospital in a remote part of central India is now used by more than 500 hospitals in 50 countries.

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How HAQM Bedrock helped the UK’s Governors for Schools generate meaningful insights

Governors for Schools is a charity operating across England and Wales to find and place volunteers on school and academy governing boards. HAQM Web Services (AWS) has worked with Governors for Schools by providing financial support, in addition to more than 100 AWS employees applying to take on school governance roles, providing much needed technical expertise in education. But in this post, we explain how Governors for Schools used HAQM Bedrock to process unstructured documents and generate meaningful insights into UK schools.

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Building your first generative AI conversational experience on AWS

HAQM Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of options for building chat-based assistants with generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The goal of this post is to present in simple words some of these options and what to keep in mind to decide which to use and how to get started.

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INRIX collaborates with AWS for generative AI hackathon during its annual ‘Innovation Week’

Studies indicate hackathons improve individual and organizational productivity, strengthen company culture, increase collaboration, and accelerate learning. HAQM Web Services (AWS) is a natural complement to these events, because the utility model reduces the cost of experimentation, accelerating progress. AWS frequently partners with customers on hackathons, and this post details a recent engagement with INRIX, Inc., which provides innovative services to organizations operating in the automotive and transportation sectors, offering real-time parking and traffic information and solutions for road safety.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with HAQM Bedrock

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. From naturalization procedures to asylum applications and university admissions, many crucial processes still rely on manual or partially manual methods, leading to significant backlogs, extended processing times, and increased costs. This post explores how HAQM Bedrock can be used to address these challenges, focusing on streamlining naturalization applications.