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How UTHealth Houston built HIPAA-compliant generative AI at scale: iDFax's 2-year journey with Amazon Bedrock

How UTHealth Houston built HIPAA-compliant generative AI at scale: iDFax’s 2-year journey with Amazon Bedrock

This post is a follow-up to our March 2025 blog post, UTHealth Houston’s iDFax transforms medical fax management with Amazon Bedrock, which introduced the iDFax pilot and its early results.

How South Carolina's Talking Book Services uses Amazon Connect to bring readers closer to the stories they love

How South Carolina’s Talking Book Services uses Amazon Connect to bring readers closer to the stories they love

Learn how South Carolina State Library’s Talking Book Services has been putting books into the hands—and ears—of people with print disabilities since 1931. Now, with the help of Amazon Connect, the small team of reader advisors serving 4,200 patrons across the state is making those deeply personal connections easier than ever.

What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads

What does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloads

The cost dimensions of agentic workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are invisible to many organizations beginning their agentic journey. It’s straightforward to track tokens consumed because this dimension translates directly to your bill. But most organizations can’t determine the cost per request or the cost to answer a single user question. Without understanding the cost to answer a single user question, organizations are blind to cost issues. In this post, I talk about how to gain visibility into your agentic costs, and I identify three things you can do to better control your costs.

AWS announces up to $1 billion in cloud credits to accelerate U.S. Intelligence Community modernization

AWS announces up to $1 billion in cloud credits to accelerate U.S. Intelligence Community modernization

Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Intelligence Community Accelerated Modernization Framework (ICAMF)[OB2.1], a landmark program committing up to $1 billion in available credits to accelerate cloud migration and modernization across the U.S. Intelligence Community. ICAMF provides outcome-based credits through October 2030, giving Intelligence Community agencies a compelling, long-term incentive to accelerate their cloud journey.

From Lab to Bedside: Five Years of AI-Powered Health Breakthroughs and What Comes Next

From Lab to Bedside: Five Years of AI-Powered Health Breakthroughs and What Comes Next

This blog discusses how AWS has supported more than 600 customers with over $90 million of technology to innovate in health. Forty-four percent of these customers employed AWS AI services, seeding AI innovation across the global health landscape and proving that cloud-powered AI can improve health and wellness for all. This blog highlights nine of those organizations deploying AI to save lives today, culminating in AWS’s largest single social impact investment in health: a landmark technology collaboration with the Fleming Initiative to build the world’s first AI-powered platform for combating antimicrobial resistance.

5 pillars to stabilize your AI product development strategy

5 pillars to stabilize your AI product development strategy

In this blog, learn how five durable pillars—full-stack builders, parallel decision-making, context as a competitive moat, disciplined prioritization, and trust at AI speed—can stabilize your AI product development strategy amid rapid technological change. Drawn from the AWS Product Acceleration team’s work with AI-native product leaders, these principles help organizations cut through the noise and convert AI-driven speed into real customer value rather than chaos.

How AWS is helping federal agencies lead in quantum computing and post-quantum security

How AWS is helping federal agencies lead in quantum computing and post-quantum security

This blog explains how AWS is supporting federal agencies on two fronts following recent White House Executive Orders on quantum technology: delivering fault-tolerant quantum computers through its collaboration with QuEra Computing on Amazon Braket by 2028, and leading the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against future quantum-enabled attacks before the 2030–2031 federal deadlines.

Modernizing border control with digital arrival cards on AWS Cloud

Modernizing border control with digital arrival cards on AWS Cloud

Learn how Somapa Information Technology PCL (SomapaIT), an AWS Partner, chooses Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to implement DAC systems because of its global footprint, security, high availability, and scalability.