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How California Community Colleges combats fraud with Pariveda Solutions and AWS

At California Community Colleges (CCC), administrators estimate that nearly one in five applications is fraudulent. That creates a difficult choice for the college system, whose core mission is to make higher education as accessible as possible. To intelligently and thoughtfully flag fraud at scale without restricting students’ ability to apply, the CCC turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS partner, Pariveda Solutions, to develop a solution. In this blog post, you will learn how CCC and Pariveda built a machine learning (ML)-powered fraud detection and prevention solution that helps identify and manage fraudulent accounts before they reach the campuses.

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Build your first AI assistant with PartyRock

PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock playground from Amazon Web Services (AWS), makes creating artificial intelligence (AI) applications simple and engaging—even if you have never written a line of code. With just a few steps, you can build your own AI assistant to help with homework, share with friends, or spark new creative ideas. Read this post to learn more.

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Smarter K12 lesson and assessment mapping in education on AWS

In this post, we explore how a graph-based student assessment system powered by AWS services can bring automation, accuracy, and adaptability to the standards-alignment process. With this modern approach, EdTech platforms can deliver scalable, standards-compliant, and personalized learning experiences across K12 learning environments.

Advancing interoperability: Netsmart becomes first designated QHIN built entirely on AWS Cloud

Advancing interoperability: Netsmart becomes first designated QHIN built entirely on AWS Cloud

Netsmart, an industry-leading healthcare IT platform organization, serving the human services, post-acute care, payers, public sector, physical therapy, and rehabilitation communities, became the first designated Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) built entirely on serverless, cloud-first technology in August 2025—and it did so with Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology.

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Powering the future of children’s health: AWS announces the 2025 Children’s Health Innovation Award recipients

Today, on National Child Health Day, AWS is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award (CHIA). This year’s cohort recognizes nine leading healthcare, research, and humanitarian organizations who are using AWS to realize a common vision: creating a world where every child has the opportunity to thrive through innovative solutions that predict, prevent, and address health challenges.

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Unlocking commercial AI models in AWS GovCloud (US): Secure cross-partition access with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we walk through three solutions that allow AWS GovCloud (US) workloads to securely connect into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) commercial partition to perform inference with Amazon Bedrock. Each approach comes with different trade-offs, and by the end you’ll have a clear view of which path might be right for your organization.

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IMF chatbot Myelo transforms cancer support with AWS Bedrock and Max.AI

Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The IMF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. In September 2024, the IMF launched Myelo—an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant built using AWS and Max.AI, developed by ZS Associates. This blog post highlights Myelo’s capabilities to provide myeloma patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals a trustworthy, round-the-clock source of information that is accessible from anywhere in the world, grounded in empathy, and can communicate in multiple languages.

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Generative AI in EdTech: 5 pitfalls to avoid for long-term success

Today’s education technology (EdTech) leaders face intense pressure to “do something with AI.” Fear of missing out has created a mentality where companies rush out AI features without understanding what problems they’re solving for their users. At AWS, we work closely with EdTech leaders navigating the generative AI landscape, and we’ve seen these patterns emerge repeatedly. Based on our experience collaborating with EdTech organizations across the education spectrum, we’ve created a list of five common pitfalls that derail generative AI efforts and the strategic approaches we recommend to avoid them.

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Meeple, Padua University spin-off, launches Amazon Bedrock AI Plugin for Moodle

Meeple Srl—a technology spin-off from the University of Padua and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner—has released the Amazon Bedrock API Provider plugin for Moodle. This open source integration enables educational institutions to seamlessly connect Moodle Learning Management Systems with Amazon Bedrock, providing access to foundation models. Read this post to learn more.