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Addressing the intersection of climate change and health with new Halcyon fellowship: Apply now

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2017, AWS has worked with Halcyon to support talented social entrepreneurs around the world through the Halcyon Incubator. The 2022 cohort of the AWS Healthcare Accelerator also had an emphasis on health equity, focusing on helping startups harness the power of the cloud to make access to healthcare more equitable.

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Building a Forever Modern IT Infrastructure Starts in the Cloud

Government Technology Insider

ACCESS Sonoma emerged in 2017 as a way to combat data siloing between various safety net departments , sharing data from various health and human services programs in a hybrid cloud-based environment. The ability to share data across these departments was an obvious barrier.”

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting Japan’s digital transformation (DX) ambition by helping Japanese customers modernize IT and innovate securely at pace, driving sustainable economic growth. In 2022, we invested ¥348 billion in capital and operational investments in our data centers in Japan.

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Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.

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Accelerating India’s digital future: MeitY empanels AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region for government workloads

AWS Public Sector Blog

Operational since November 2022, as part of AWS’s total investment of INR 1,36,500 crores (US $16.4 In 2017, AWS India became the first global CSP in India to receive full empanelment for its cloud service offerings after the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region completed MeitY’s STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) audit.

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

Barrett & Greene

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer, recalls a conversation with colleagues on the budget and finance side of Pittsburgh in 2017 “We were so excited about what we wanted to do, and they kept calling our projects ‘unicorn projects,’” recalls Ervin. C increase above pre-industrial levels.

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Picture this: How the U.S. Forest Service uses Google Cloud tools to analyze a changing planet

Google Public Sector

It directly manages 193 million acres and supports sustainable management on a total of 500 million acres of private, state, and tribal lands. Using both historical and current data, the Forest Service built new products, workflows, and tools that help more effectively and sustainably manage our natural resources.

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