Better health for everyone, everywhere
The AWS Health Impact Initiative is a five-year, $100 million commitment of AI, agentic services, and cloud infrastructure. We support health nonprofits, government agencies, research institutions, industry, and technology companies that are building and scaling innovative health solutions for underserved populations worldwide.
This commitment builds upon five years of AWS health investments that have empowered 600+ customers in over 80 countries to improve health outcomes. Our Health Equity Initiative ran from 2021-2024 and we continued our investments through 2026. The new AWS Health Impact Initiative aims to help even more customers drive global impact over the next five years.
AWS health impact by the numbers
- committed over 5 years
- $100M
- lives impacted via prior health investments
- 109M+
- domains across global health
- 3
- health customers supported since 2021
- 600+
Three domains for closing health gaps
We fund projects in three domains across the health landscape, each informed by customer feedback, peer-reviewed research, and five years of AWS social impact investment.
Expanding access to quality health services
This domain supports AI, agentic, and cloud solutions that expand access to health services, support research, help organizations build and scale diagnostic testing workflows, and strengthen health infrastructure for underserved populations, such as those in rural and remote areas, low- and middle-income countries, and communities disproportionately affected by disease.
Advancing women's and children's health
Women and children together represent roughly two-thirds of the world’s population, yet medicine as currently applied to these groups is less evidence-based than care applied to men. This domain supports inclusive research, better health data, and innovation in health technology for these patient populations.
Healthy food for all
Malnutrition among pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and adolescent girls surged by 25% since 2020 in the 12 countries hardest hit by the global food and nutrition crisis. This domain supports projects that optimize food distribution, predict food security patterns, and expand access to culturally appropriate healthy food.
Better health outcomes through technology
"Agents and AI are revolutionizing health services, but these transformative technologies too often don’t reach the communities that need them most. The AWS Health Impact Initiative reduces costs for the organizations supporting those communities to build with AI, and extends our commitment to democratize AI and cloud-powered health innovations that benefit everyone, everywhere."
~ Dr. Rowland Illing, Chief Medical Officer, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWS
Application steps
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis against qualifying criteria. You can expect to hear back within approximately two weeks of your submission.
1. Connect
Existing customers can contact their AWS account team. Organizations without an account team can use the public application portal.
2. Apply
Submit a proposal describing your underserved audience, your solution, and the impact you aim to achieve in one or more domains.
3. Get reviewed
AWS evaluates applications on domain alignment, impact potential, technical capacity, and team experience, typically within two weeks.
4. Build and share
Put AWS credits to work, complete short impact surveys (up to three times over 12 months), and share your story with a global audience.
Benefits
Access AI, agentic services, and cloud infrastructure to build and scale solutions that improve health outcomes for underserved populations worldwide.
Apply for AWS credits to build health solutions using AWS cloud, AI, and agentic technology. Organizations can use AWS services to create diagnostic tools, AI-powered clinical support, food security platforms, and more.
Put AWS cloud, AI, and agentic technology to work for your mission. Explore self-service resources, reference architectures, and digital trainings on AWS Skill Builder to design and scale solutions that improve health outcomes for the communities you serve.
Awardees must complete milestone-based surveys, up to three times over 12 months, to help us understand reach, impact, and areas of potential improvement. Storytelling opportunities include AWS blogs, customer case studies, and participation in AWS Summits and third-party conferences.
Recent awardees show the power of AWS
Eve's Ark rescues orphaned women's health datasets before they are lost when labs close or grants end. To date, the organization has preserved a petabyte of data on AWS and activated it in a secure research environment where scientists can safely power and collaborate on new discoveries.
"The women's health field lags behind other fields of medicine and biomedical research by decades, but in the era of AI we can catch up," says Dr. Piraye Yurttas Beim, Founder and Chair of Eve's Ark. "The AWS cloud is where genomic research was pioneered, so we knew AWS was a vital partner in our mission."
Health solutions making an impact
Explore more health impact stories
Frequently asked questions
FAQ
Open allEligible organizations include health systems, health techs, startups, nonprofits, government agencies, research institutions, and corporate social responsibility teams building solutions that improve health outcomes for underserved populations globally. For-profit social enterprises are welcome to apply.
Projects must address at least one of our three domains: expanding access to quality health services, advancing women's and children's health research and innovation, or healthy food for all.
Selected organizations receive AWS credits to build and scale health solutions using AWS cloud, AI, and agentic technology.
If you do not have an AWS account manager or are unsure whether you have one, please complete the application to request AWS credits. If you do have an AWS account manager, contact them directly for support and they will submit your proposal.
Applications are reviewed weekly. You can expect to hear back from AWS within about two weeks of your submission.
- Succinct description of the underserved population you strive to reach and the health challenges they face.
- Proposed solution focused on improving health outcomes for that underserved population in at least one of our three domains.
- Quantifiable audience your health solution aims to reach.
- Specificity on the type of underserved population supported (for example, rural patients, women and children, communities in low- and middle-income countries).
- Technical capacity of your organization to use AWS services.
AWS evaluates applications based on:
Organizations new to AWS are welcome to apply for credits through the Health Impact Initiative. An AWS Pricing Calculator must accompany requests over $10,000 USD. Depending on the organization's experience with AWS, awards may start with an initial investment of $10,000 USD and scale following demonstrated use of those credits. If you have an existing AWS account manager, we recommend beginning your application with them directly for the additional support they provide in scoping requests.
AWS awards credits through the Health Impact Initiative for net-new builds or expansions of existing solutions to new geographies or population types. If your project meets one of those criteria, you are welcome to apply for additional funding by following the same steps described in the "How do I apply?" question above.
Our expectation is that awardees complete short impact surveys, up to three times over 12 months and coinciding with key points in your credit utilization. Surveys help AWS understand awardees' reach and impact, and identify ways we can improve the program.
We encourage you to review other AWS offerings and programs that may better suit your organization's needs. Examples include AWS Cloud Credit for Research, AWS Activate for Startups, and AWS for Nonprofits. You can also explore digital trainings on AWS Skill Builder. If your organization is new to AWS, we suggest trying AWS Free Tier, where you can get credits at sign-up and as you explore key AWS services.
At AWS, we believe every person deserves access to quality health, regardless of where they live or who they are. We support organizations addressing a broad range of challenges across three domains: expanding access to quality health services; advancing women's and children's health research and innovation; and healthy food for all. This includes work such as expanding care in rural and remote areas, advancing diagnostics and precision medicine, inclusive research on women's and children's health, and strengthening "Food is Medicine" solutions.
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