On the Frontlines of Disaster Response With the Cloud
summary
AWS Disaster Response describes concrete deployments: Snowball Edge devices and Wi‑Fi mesh restore field connectivity, two Snowballs plus volunteers process high‑res imagery for Help.NGO after Hurricane Dorian across 40+ medical sites in Nassau and Abaco and AWS grants $50,000 to NetHope and ITDRC. NASA/Development Seed run a Deep Learning Based Hurricane Intensity Estimator on AWS every 15 minutes. USGS evacuates 40 years of images from Kilauea on an overnighted Snowball. Education and remote work rollouts use Chime SDK, Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkDocs; a $20M Diagnostics Development Initiative and a public COVID‑19 data lake support research.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00AWS Disaster Response Program
- 2:49Mitigation and Preparation
- 5:04The Response
- 6:45The Impact
- 9:55Conclusion
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