{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","contentId":"000001a1-b208-dfbc-a7ad-fa2df5450000","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-health-impact-initiative-100-million-ai-cloud","headline":"AWS commits $100 million of AI and cloud technology to help organizations expand health services worldwide","description":"AWS is committing $100M in AI and cloud technology to help health organizations build solutions for the communities that need them most. 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But for the health organizations serving the world’s underserved communities, assistance with accessing technology can help accelerate health solutions for the communities that need it most.\n\nToday, [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/amazon-web-services) announced the AWS Health Impact Initiative (HII), a five-year, $100 million commitment of [AI](https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/artificial-intelligence-ai), agentic services, and cloud infrastructure for organizations building solutions that close critical health gaps affecting underserved populations worldwide. Health nonprofits, government agencies, research institutions, industry, and technology companies can [apply for HII support](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/our-impact/health-impact-initiative) to create and scale health solutions ranging from prototype to production.\n\n![connect](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/7397c2e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1688x1125+156+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F8d%2F92%2F548718dc419180e6138f6f2dd57c%2Famazon-connect-announcement.png)\n\n- [Amazon Connect expands into a set of agentic AI solutions](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-connect-ai-business-set)\n\n## Why the AWS Health Impact Initiative matters now\n\nThe [World Economic Forum](https://www.weforum.org/) projects that [generative AI use will grow faster in healthcare](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Future_of_AI_Enabled_Health_2025.pdf) than in any other domain, driven by agentic AI that can increase the efficiency of clinical workflows and support care teams, presenting both enormous opportunity and risk. If health organizations closest to underserved communities lag in their adoption of these capabilities, health gaps widen.\n\n“Agents and AI are revolutionizing health services, but these transformative technologies too often don’t reach the communities that need them most unless organizations know how to access and deploy them,” said Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director, Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. “The AWS Health Impact Initiative helps organizations that support those communities to build with AI and extends our commitment to democratize AI and cloud-powered health innovations that benefit everyone, everywhere.”\n\n## Three domains for closing health gaps\n\nHII funds projects across the healthcare landscape, with an added focus on three domains where technology can support access to high-quality care, services, and food people need for a healthy life. Each domain is informed by customer feedback, peer-reviewed research, and [five years of AWS social impact investment](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/from-lab-to-bedside-five-years-of-ai-powered-health-breakthroughs-and-what-comes-next/). This includes the [AWS Health Equity Initiative](https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/global-social-impact/health-equity/) (HEI), which launched in 2021 and provided $60 million of AI and cloud technology to over 400 awardees.\n\n### Expanding access to quality health services\n\nThis domain supports AI, agentic, and cloud solutions that expand access to health services. This includes bolstering resources such as community health services, outpatient services, and hospital care, as well as supporting research, and helping organizations build and scale diagnostic testing workflows. It also involves strengthening health infrastructure for underserved populations, such as those in rural and remote areas, low- and middle-income countries, and communities disproportionately affected by disease.\n\n![Amazon Quick logo](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/38ab29a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1688x1125+156+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F30%2Fdd%2Fe7e3752447198b6ebd1f3a7cc7a5%2Famazon-quick-interface-hero2-amazon-news-lt-0910.jpg)\n\n- [Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available, with a new activity feed on iOS and Android](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-quick-desktop-ai-assistant)\n\n### Advancing women's and children's health research and innovation\n\nOnly [5%](https://www.nature.com/articles/d43747-024-00021-x) of health research funding addresses women’s health, and [up to half](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004651) of medicines given to children lack pediatric clinical validation. Women and children together represent roughly two-thirds of the world’s population, yet medicine as currently applied to these groups is less evidence-based than care applied to men. This domain supports inclusive research, better health data—such as better understanding pediatric and gender-specific genetic risks and filling data gaps to enable precision medicine for everyone, and innovation in health technology for these patient populations.\n\n### Healthy food for all\n\nMalnutrition among pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and adolescent girls surged by [25% since 2020](https://www.who.int/news/item/06-03-2025-building-a-healthier-world-by-women-and-for-women-is-key-to-achieving-gender-equality) in the 12 countries hardest hit by the global food and nutrition crisis. One-quarter of all children globally are affected by stunting, which impairs the growth and development of children, because of the lack of access to healthy foods. This domain supports projects that optimize food distribution, predict food security patterns, and expand access to culturally appropriate healthy food.\n\n## Health organizations already receiving support from AWS\n\nRecent awardees are applying AWS’s AI and cloud technology to help improve communities across the globe, from helping deliver meals to millions of children to expanding research on women’s health:\n\n- [**Eve's Ark**](https://www.evesark.org/) rescues orphaned women's health datasets before they are lost when labs close or grants end, to date preserving more than a petabyte of data on AWS. Eve’s Ark will soon be able to make this data available for scientists around the world via the AWS Cloud, enabling them to safely power and collaborate on new discoveries.\n- [**Admera Health**](https://www.admerahealth.com/)worked with AWS to expand its ability to deliver rigorously validated, fast-turnaround genomic sequencing at scale to nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and public health agencies that may otherwise lack access to cutting-edge genomic tools. Admera’s sequencing technology services support research in underserved populations worldwide, including sewage-based tuberculosis surveillance in South Africa, rare-disease genomics in Brazil, and cancer genetics in Pakistan and Morocco.\n- [**Care 2 Communities**](https://care2communities.org/) **(C2C)** delivers primary healthcare across a network of community clinics in Haiti. Through an integrated model that serves families from throughout the life cycle, C2C meets patients where they are, through doctors at clinics or community health workers at home. Serving 350,000 people to date, with almost 120,000 patient visits a year, C2C worked with AWS to bringpatient records from its clinics into a single cloud-based platform to give its team clear and timely insight into care delivery, lab services, and prescriptions.\n- The [**Akshaya Patra Foundation**](https://www.akshayapatra.org/)cooks and delivers nutritious school meals to more than 2.35 million children across India every school day under the Government’s PM POSHAN Programme (earlier known as the Mid-Day Meal Programme). With over five billion meals served to date, Akshaya Patra migrated to AWS to optimize kitchen operations, enable greater security and cost efficiency measures, and streamline meal distribution at scale.\n\n## How organizations can apply for the AWS Health Impact Initiative\n\nOrganizations can work with their AWS account team to submit proposals. Those without an account team apply directly through a [public application portal](https://pulse.amazon/application/9XSD9BPP). Awardees receive credits sized to the estimated need from their own [AWS Pricing Calculator](https://calculator.aws/#/), or up to $10,000 to get started. Those credits are valid for 12 months and extendable to a total of 24 months. Any credits awarded are governed by the [AWS Promotional Credit Terms and Conditions](https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/).\n\nThe application includes the problem the organization is trying to solve, the proposed solution, and an estimate of how many lives the solution will positively impact. Applications are reviewed weekly.\n\n![AWS commits over $500 M to student resources](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/a877bc4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1013x675+0+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F5b%2F5f%2Fd8fce84544739e7051f1cdf8e1d4%2Faws-commits-500m-ai-amazonnews-cdlt-2026aug20.png)\n\n- [AWS commits more than $500 million to student cloud and AI training](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-student-rewards-free-cloud-ai-training)\n\n## Five years of AWS investment in global health\n\nHII builds on five years of AWS social impact health investments, reaching more than 600 health organizations worldwide. These organizations’ work spans [women’s health](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/building-a-healthier-future-for-women-how-aws-customers-are-transforming-womens-health-across-the-lifespan/), [mental health](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/social-impact/5-social-enterprises-building-a-global-response-to-the-mental-health-crisis-using-aws/), [genomics](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/breaking-down-barriers-how-aws-democratizes-genomic-data-for-the-world/), [global surgical intelligence](https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/proximie-case-study/), the first complete [digital brain cell atlas](https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/allen-institute-infographic/), and more.\n\nThis includes supporting organizations like U.S. Hunger, that is applying AI tools such as Amazon Quick to review datasets faster as they coordinate food assistance, health referrals, and benefits navigation for families in crisis.\n\n“Our work starts with community. Technology should never replace human connection—it should strengthen it,” said Ezekiel Brooks, CTO of U.S. Hunger. “Moving our infrastructure to AWS allows us to build a secure, scalable foundation for the work we're doing in communities. By using AWS serverless analytics, frontier AI, and agentic contact center services, we're able to manage data responsibly, protect privacy, and deliver services faster and more effectively.”\n\n“Every time a lab closes or a grant ends, decades of women’s health data can disappear. Eve’s Ark uses AWS to rescue that data, protect it, and put it back in the hands of researchers, so discoveries that should be possible in 2030 aren’t lost right now,” said Melissa Antal Iftimie, co-founder and CEO of Eve’s Ark. “We started with a small AWS award and a single at-risk dataset. That was enough to prove the model, and now we’re preserving more than one petabyte of women’s health data and building a secure research environment where scientists can work with it to complete the human picture.”\n\nOrganizations interested in the AWS Health Impact Initiative can contact their AWS account team or [apply directly here](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/our-impact/health-impact-initiative).","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"About Amazon","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com","sameAs":["https://x.com/amazonnews","https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon","https://www.instagram.com/amazonnews"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/bd/8f/88e7b0314cc2bd05b9de3155a0fe/amazon-news.svg"},"parentOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon","url":"https://www.amazon.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)","https://x.com/Amazon"]}}}