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The 1000 Genomes Project, reanalyzed: A new analytical baseline for human genomics

The 1000 Genomes Project, reanalyzed: A new analytical baseline for human genomics

In this post, you can learn what distinguishes this reanalyzed dataset from prior 1000 Genomes Project call sets, how to access the data, and how to explore it using both bioinformatics tools and a natural-language query interface built on Amazon Bedrock.

Accelerating geospatial work with Kiro: One AI interface for the geo stack

Accelerating geospatial work with Kiro: One AI interface for the geo stack

This post introduces the Geospatial Power Pack, a Kiro power package that turns Kiro into a unified, AI-assisted geospatial workspace. Kiro is an agentic development environment created by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It helps developers and teams turn prompts into executable specs, validate code correctness to find bugs that unit tests miss, and build across large codebases with parallel agents that learn from every session.

Providing equitable access to NASA’s Earth science data archive

Providing equitable access to NASA’s Earth science data archive

In this blog, learn how NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) is migrating over 170 petabytes of Earth science data to AWS to provide equitable access to researchers worldwide, eliminating the “data fortress” problem while achieving significant cost efficiencies through intelligent tiering, serverless architecture, and economies of scale. The post also details how NASA made over 6,000 Earth Science collections visible in the Registry of Open Data on AWS, enabling seamless discovery and analysis for the broader AWS user community.

Federated learning for biobank data at the CMU-NVIDIA Hackathon

Federated learning for biobank data at the CMU-NVIDIA Hackathon

by Ben Busby, Dr. Beryl Rabindran, Cristian Chicas, Holger Roth, Maria Fassinger, and Melanie Gainey on in Public Sector Permalink Share

In this blog post, we will share how at the January 2026 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)–NVIDIA Federated Learning Hackathon for Biomedical Applications, ten teams built end‑to‑end prototypes on NVIDIA FLARE (NVIDIA Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment), with data prepared for modeling on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to test how FL could support real‑world biobank collaboration at scale.

Building realistic Minecraft worlds with Open Data on AWS: How Arnis uses elevation datasets at scale

Building realistic Minecraft worlds with Open Data on AWS: How Arnis uses elevation datasets at scale

Arnis, an open source tool, transforms real-world locations into playable Minecraft worlds by processing geospatial data hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). By migrating to Terrain Tiles—a global elevation dataset on the Registry of Open Data on AWS—Arnis eliminated data retrieval costs while serving nearly 300,000 users. To make terrain believable at a global scale, […]

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32 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

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.