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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.

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Bridging AI and biology: Inside the AWS and NVIDIA Open Data knowledge graph hackathon

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.

AWS branded background with text "82 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS"

82 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 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.