Tag: AWS Public Sector

Libraries are a treasure trove of knowledge, but finding what you need—especially in vast digital collections like the ones housed at Northwestern University Libraries (NUL)—isn’t always straightforward. That’s why the university chose AWS to help them build a new, multilingual, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered search tool—one that makes its expansive collections more accessible, intuitive, and inclusive for all.

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.

AWS collaborated with the Virginia Army National Guard (VA ARNG) for Cyber Fortress 2025, an exercise that brought together government agencies, public utilities, and academia to strengthen critical infrastructure defense through collaborative training. Read this post to learn more.

Public safety is at a crossroads. A rising wave of cyber attacks on mission-critical public safety systems has spurred agencies across the country to modernize their infrastructure. This journey involves adopting new technology, but it’s also about building trust, resilience, and agility into the heart of 911 operations. Recent milestones by Carbyne—culminating in renewed AWS Government Competency status—showcase how a next-generation approach can help agencies stay ahead.

Today, we are excited to announce the release of E11 Bio’s brain tissue dataset on AWS as part of the Registry of Open Data on AWS (E11bio PRISM). Read this post to learn more.

AWS is expanding its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to Tennessee, which becomes the sixth state in the alliance. Through a strategic collaboration with the Nashville Innovation Alliance, this partnership aims to address middle Tennessee’s growing technology talent demand, with particular emphasis on AI and cloud computing skills, where tech job postings have increased by 35 percent between 2020 and 2023, with an estimated 8,000 open technology positions across the region.

Read this post to learn about Pi Jam Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to bringing creative computing and digital skills to underserved students using AWS.

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.

Defense and national security customers are shifting away from legacy systems toward innovative, best-in-class commercial solutions in the cloud that can provide warfighters a superior technical advantage. Nontraditional defense contractors and commercial companies building these solutions face a challenge: accessing classified IT quickly and cost-effectively. Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership between AWS and Westway Services Group LLC that tackles this challenge head-on.

Today’s military forces face unprecedented challenges in managing battlefield information. A new solution—developed through a collaboration between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Lockheed Martin—demonstrates how cloud technology can revolutionize military communications.