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Highlights from AWS Nonprofit Generative AI Week 2025

On October 6–9, 2025, AWS hosted AWS Nonprofit Generative AI Week, a four-day virtual experience for nonprofit professionals across all roles and experience levels. The event explored ethical AI practices, nonprofit-specific use cases, and hands-on implementation guidance. Read this post to learn more and get access to on demand content from the event.

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How Fischer Identity rapidly built a natural-language tool for user permissions queries with AWS

Fischer Identity, a leader in identity and access management (IAM) and identity governance for higher education, partnered with the AWS Product Acceleration education technology (EdTech) team to build a generative AI tool that converts natural language into SQL queries—moving from proof of concept in 5 days and to beta readiness in only 6 months. This post explores how the collaboration produced a text-to-SQL solution that nontechnical security administrators can use to get instant answers.

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How APHL transforms public health data exchange with AWS to save newborn lives

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to build effective laboratory systems in the US and globally, representing state and local governmental health labs that monitor and detect public health threats. In 2024, APHL successfully applied for the AWS invite-only category of the AWS Imagine Grant, the Children’s Health Innovation Award. Working with their healthcare technology partner Ruvos, APHL received grant funding that included both cash and AWS credits to advance Detor, an electronic test order and result (ETOR) solution developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Building Trusted Research Environments on AWS

Trusted Research Environments (TREs) provide secure access to sensitive data, enabling research while controlling data movement to meet governance requirements. In this post, we review core TRE concepts, examine TRE history and related initiatives, and explore key considerations for successfully deploying a TRE on AWS.

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The 8th R: When cloud migration becomes business reinvention

Traditional cloud migration approaches followed the established 7 Rs: Rehost, Refactor or re-architect, Relocate, Repurchase, Replatform, Retain, and Retire. However, we now see the emergence of an 8th R, Reinvention, which is transforming government agencies into dynamic public value engines. Read this post to learn more.

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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.

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Navigating polymorphic data: A Pariveda guide to AWS Glue and Salesforce integration

This post shares lessons learned by Pariveda, a strategy and technology services firm, during the implementation of a scalable and flexible data integration pipeline for a customer. We review three approaches, all leveraging AWS Glue and Salesforce capabilities, to securely publish data to polymorphic objects and compounded fields.

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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.

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Simplify external SAML identity provider integration with Amazon Cognito user pools using automated metadata extraction

Public sector organizations and technology vendors across industries—from healthcare and education to public safety and citizen services—struggle with complex identity integration requirements when deploying applications across multiple facilities and jurisdictions. This post demonstrates how organizations can eliminate integration delays using an automated metadata extraction solution built on AWS that provides self-service access to Amazon Cognito user pools metadata through a serverless REST API.