AWS has announced a $50 million initiative to help the public sector adopt generative AI and accelerate innovation.

The AWS Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Initiative was announced in late June, and relies on AWS generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Q, AWS HealthScribe, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium.

AWS says the public sector is trying to adopt and leverage generative AI, but faces unique challenges and limitations.

Across the public sector, leaders are seeking to leverage generative AI to become more efficient and agile. However, public sector organizations face several challenges such as optimizing resources, adapting to changing needs, improving patient care, personalizing the education experience, and strengthening security. To respond to these challenges, AWS is committed to helping public sector organizations unlock the potential of generative AI and other cloud-based technologies to positively impact society.

The company’s $50 million commitment will go toward training, technical expertise, and more.

As part of this initiative, AWS is committing up to $50 million in AWS Promotional Credits, training, and technical expertise across generative AI projects. Credit issuance determinations will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the customer’s experience developing new technology solutions, the maturity of the project idea, evidence of future solution adoption, and the customer’s breadth of generative AI skills. The Impact Initiative is open to new or existing AWS Worldwide Public Sector customers and partners from enterprises worldwide who are building generative AI solutions to help solve society’s most pressing challenges.