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AWS Gives $12M to Fight COVID Through Cloud-Powered Diagnostics

AWS will distribute $12 million in 2021 and expand the scope of its initiative to fight COVID-19 through cloud-powered diagnostics.

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By Samantha McGrail

- Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that it will distribute $12 million to fight COVID-19 through cloud-powered diagnostics research and development. 

Starting in mid-April, AWS will expand its focus to early disease detection to identify outbreaks at the individual and community level. The company will also focus on prognosis to better understand disease trajectory, as well as public health genomics to boost viral genome sequencing globally.

Although AWS will prioritize COVID-19 projects, it will focus on other infectious diseases as well.