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Empowering families in need: How Save the Children uses Amazon Bedrock to simplify access to social benefits
Through the innovative use of Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services, Save the Children España created a transformative solution that addresses a critical social challenge. This web application not only simplifies access to social benefits for vulnerable families, but also empowers social workers with better tools to support their communities. Read this post to learn more.
How the Wildlife Conservation Society uses AWS to accelerate coral reef monitoring worldwide
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) envisions a world where information quickly and effectively moves from the hands of scientists to communities and governments, enabling rapid action to protect coral reefs. Through their MERMAID (Marine Ecological Research Management AID) platform, WCS creates transparency around coral reef health and empowers people and institutions with the data they need to take action to save reefs. Read this post to learn more.
Empowering underserved learners with digital skills: Nigeria’s 3MTT program on AWS
Without targeted interventions, many young people transition into adulthood without the skills required by today’s economy. Workforce-oriented skilling has therefore become a critical bridge from exclusion to employability. This post explores how Nigeria’s The Three Million Technical Talent (3MTT) initiative—built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supported by the AWS Education Equity Initiative (EEI)—is addressing this challenge by delivering market-relevant digital skills to millions of young people.
Reimagining university libraries with AWS: University of Maryland’s six-month cloud migration
The University of Maryland Libraries serves 41,000 students across six physical libraries on its College Park campus. Like many academic institutions, the libraries relied on aging on-premises infrastructure to support their digital services and operations. When the libraries’ IT team faced deteriorating hardware, rising licensing costs, and personnel constraints that threatened operations, they made a strategic decision: retire their data center entirely and transform their infrastructure with AWS.
How Northwestern University built a multilingual generative AI search tool with AWS
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.
Creative coding for everyone: How Pi Jam expands digital skills for underserved learners in India with AWS
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.
Cultural shift to cloud savings: The Department for Work and Pension’s FinOps journey reduces costs and boosts citizen services
In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.
Unlocking research potential: How the University of Sheffield and RONIN accelerate secure research through Data Connect
This blog explores how the University of Sheffield uses AWS Partner RONIN Core and RONIN Isolate solutions to deliver a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) built on AWS infrastructure, enabling secure research and collaboration with sensitive data through the university’s Data Connect service. Secure and compliant infrastructure is essential for sensitive research. Many research institutions use a research Landing Zone to build Secure Research Environments (SRE) that provide the foundational compliance infrastructure—meeting standards like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CMMC—upon which TREs like RONIN can build secure research workflows.
Humane World for Animals uses AWS to scale global animal welfare programs
To address the global challenge of managing street animal populations, Humane World for Animals has developed Humane World Apps, a comprehensive global data management tool designed to improve dog and cat welfare programs by managing spay and neuter, mass vaccination, and access to care operations. With support from the AWS Imagine Grant—a public grant program that provides both cash and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credit funding to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions—Humane World Apps is transforming how large-scale animal welfare programs operate worldwide.
IMF chatbot Myelo transforms cancer support with AWS Bedrock and Max.AI
Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The IMF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. In September 2024, the IMF launched Myelo—an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant built using AWS and Max.AI, developed by ZS Associates. This blog post highlights Myelo’s capabilities to provide myeloma patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals a trustworthy, round-the-clock source of information that is accessible from anywhere in the world, grounded in empathy, and can communicate in multiple languages.