AWS for Industries

Blog guest authored by Venkat Jegadeesan, Jim Arrington, and Si Wong from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center When the pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many organizations needed suddenly to be able to operate remotely, including hospitals and academic medical centers. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Massachusetts collaborated with Amazon Web […]

Handling the end-of-life expenses of a loved one can present a significant and often unexpected cost burden to the survivors. Purchasing an insurance policy with a death benefit (often called funeral insurance) can help cover the costs associated with fulfilling the last wishes of the deceased, including burial, travel expenses to attend a memorial service, […]

The computing needs of capital market and insurance firms have evolved with regulatory regimes requiring firms to develop more complex models that run more frequently and provide transparency. In response, firms are creating more complex models that require greater compute capacity. As financial institutions run their grid workloads on AWS, two core aspects stand out […]

At AWS re:Invent 2022, Epic Games, a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology, announced that RealityScan, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is now available as a free download on iOS. AWS’s highly performant infrastructure enables Epic to cost-efficiently scale RealityScan to support tens of thousands of creators, turning images into […]

Amazon Omics is a new fully managed service which helps AWS customers store, query, analyze, and generate insights from genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to improve health and accelerate scientific discoveries. Many AWS customers want to go faster in their migration to the cloud, and the good news is that Amazon Omics has broad support […]

We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of David Obenshain, Gargi Singh Chhatwal, and Joshua Broyde, who are Solutions Architects at AWS. With the rapid advancement and use of Genomic sequencing within research and clinical organizations, we need reliable, reproducible, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure to manage data and compute resources. Organizations want to spend […]

This is the first installation of a two-part series detailing the launch of Amazon Omics. The second installation provides deeper technical details. We are excited to launch the general availability of Amazon Omics–a purpose-built service that will help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, query, analyze, and generate insights from genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. […]

Amazon HealthLake Imaging is a new HIPAA-eligible capability that enables healthcare providers and their software partners to store, access, and analyze medical images at petabyte scale. For customers who want to accelerate their digital transformation of medical imaging to the cloud, Amazon HealthLake Imaging Partners provide solutions and services that can help. Whether it is […]

This blog was authored by Carine MacPherson, Patrick Bartsch, Chavi Gupta, Mehran Najafi, Stefano Marzani, Brett Francis, and Michael Garcia. Today, BlackBerry announced that customers who build mission-critical, deterministic, embedded systems using BlackBerry QNX, such as those in the automotive, robotics, aerospace, avionics, energy and medical industries, now, have the agility, speed, and scale of […]

In 2021, over 25 million people played a round of golf at over 16,000 courses nationwide. Across each of those rounds, golf carts continue to play a major role in the player experience. From custom yardage and course GPS, to the leather-backed seats and, most importantly, ample storage to carry the golf clubs, golf carts […]