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AWS Disaster Response

AWS leverages technology and expertise to enhance our customers' disaster response capabilities

Contact the AWS Disaster Response team

Access cloud services at the edge, even in the harshest conditions

The AWS Disaster Response Action Team allows customers to focus on mission-critical functions, while AWS provisions critical data and applications, transports hardware to the base of operations, and implements deployable infrastructure based on customer need.

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AWS Health Equity Initiative

The AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative is a program to support customers who are working to bring better, more accurate diagnostic solutions to market faster and promote better collaboration across organizations that are working on similar problems. As part of this, we are committing an initial investment of $20 million over the next year to accelerate diagnostic research, innovation, and development to speed our collective understanding and detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other innovate diagnostic solutions to mitigate future infectious disease outbreaks.

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How AWS Disaster Response helps

Rebuilding Connectivity

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Disaster Mapping

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Building Applications for Good

Illustration of a laptop with code on the screen, connected to a grid of blue squares, symbolizing data processing or digital organization.Having the information available to make critical decisions is paramount when responding to a disaster. AWS works with customers and partners to build software solutions that improve government and nonprofits’ preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities. Making data openly available through the AWS Open Data Program enables the disaster response community’s resiliency and effectiveness, through sharing and analyzing data at scale.

Project Resilience

AWS is offering up to $5,000 in AWS Project Resilience Promotional Credit to governmental, nonprofit, multilateral, and educational institutions to support their business continuity plans in the cloud. Eligible customers can use their credits to offset the costs of developing a holistic disaster recovery plan.

 

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AWS Disaster Response partner community

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