Category: Announcements

Healthcare organizations face pressure to innovate rapidly while managing rising costs, addressing workforce shortages, and navigating complex regulatory requirements. At the same time, they must modernize legacy systems, improve patient outcomes, and enhance operational efficiency—all while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. The traditional procurement process for healthcare technology has been a significant barrier to innovation. Lengthy contract negotiations, complex legal reviews, and siloed purchasing decisions can delay critical technology deployments by months or years. In an industry where timing can directly impact patient outcomes, this friction impedes necessary progress. AWS Marketplace is helping change this reality.

When a hurricane makes landfall or a power outage takes servers offline, government operations don’t get a pause button. CentralSquare Technologies, North America’s leading public sector software provider, saw an opportunity to change that.

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-based techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. Through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program, customers are making over 300 PB of high-value, cloud-optimized data available for public use.

This week, the Department of Energy recognized AWS as a supporter of the Genesis Mission, highlighting our work with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on civil nuclear innovation. AWS had the privilege of joining US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and national laboratory directors at a roundtable discussion at the White House’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building to discuss this transformational initiative. It’s a recognition of a collaboration already underway—and a validation of the infrastructure and approach America needs to win the race for AI-powered scientific leadership.

Knowledge graphs (KGs) and large language models (LLMs) are transforming biomedical research, but ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) outputs are trustworthy and evidence-based remains challenging. At the recent AWS and NVIDIA Open Data knowledge graph hackathon, teams of researchers tackled this challenge by developing innovative solutions that combine knowledge graphs with graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG). Read this post to learn more.

The US federal procurement landscape is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in decades. This reform aims to usher in a new era of streamlined, commercial-first procurement. At the heart of this transformation is a bold vision: Federal procurement should be as agile and efficient as modern commerce. Enter AWS Marketplace—an offering that can help federal customers navigate this new age of federal procurement.

The Presidential AI Challenge is a nationwide initiative for educators and K-12 students to develop AI-powered solutions for real-world problems in their communities. With a January 20, 2026, deadline quickly approaching, now is the time to transform your idea into an impactful project. Whether you’re building a working prototype or crafting a detailed proposal, this guide breaks down exactly what you need to do to get your submission ready—specifically focusing on using PartyRock, the AWS no-code generative AI playground powered by Amazon Bedrock.

Each year, AWS provides AWS Imagine Grant winners with a holistic package of resources: unrestricted funding, AWS computing credits, and expert technical guidance to move their projects forward. Our three award categories are designed to support organizations at every stage of their cloud journey. This year—for the first time—our winner cohort spans six countries across three continents, with our inaugural nonprofit recipients in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Read this post to explore this year’s winning projects.

AWS and Telos are pleased to announce that Xacta, a leading cyber governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform, has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization—the program’s highest security level. This achievement validates Telos’s partnership with AWS in delivering enterprise-grade security solutions for US public sector organizations and regulated industries, providing the tools needed to efficiently manage security compliance—from initial assessment through continuous monitoring.

Today, AWS announced the launch of its new Digital Sovereignty Module as part of the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP). The module is designed for AWS Partners looking to build digital sovereignty offerings, helping them support public sector and regulated industries customers address their data residency and compliance requirements on AWS. Read this post to learn more.