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TennCare, Tennessee’s state Medicaid program, has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its successful modernization of the Tennessee Eligibility Determination System (TEDS) using AWS services. This initiative represents a monumental shift from legacy, on-premises infrastructure to a scalable, cloud-native platform that now powers eligibility determinations, appeals, long-term care support, and broader Medicaid enterprise services for millions of Tennesseans.

The Hawaii Department of Taxation has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance tax administration, despite limited resources and a small technical team. By harnessing AWS AI tools and a spirit of experimentation, the department has modernized its approach to audit selection, data processing, and software testing.

Jeffcom 911, serving Jefferson County, Colorado, has been recognized with a 2025 AWS Champions Award for its use of cloud technology to modernize emergency communications operations. As one of the most innovative emergency communications centers (ECCs) in the nation, Jeffcom has implemented one of the nation’s first purpose-built data analysis platforms that harnesses call metadata and transcripts to deliver new operational insights, optimize dispatcher workflows, and support more informed governance.

The Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative modernization of the state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. By replacing a 1970s-era legacy platform with a modern, cloud-based solution, KDOL has delivered a faster, more secure, and user-friendly experience for claimants and employers alike.

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for pioneering a cutting-edge application of generative AI to streamline medical record abstraction for COVID-19 surveillance. By using large language models (LLMs) in a powerful data system, MDH turned a time-consuming, manual public health task into a fast, automated process. This has sped up research and provided deeper insights into public health trends

The North Carolina Division of Employment Security (NCDES) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its successful deployment of a secure, generative AI-powered virtual assistant built on AWS. Launched in early 2025, this chatbot is helping transform how North Carolinians access unemployment insurance services by offering 24/7 assistance, reducing support center burdens, and delivering faster, more consistent guidance — especially during times of peak demand.

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its innovative efforts to modernize public health laboratory workflows using cloud technology. By developing a centralized, web-based application on AWS, OHA has laid the foundation for streamlining its sequencing operations — enhancing data standardization, reducing testing inefficiencies, and strengthening the state’s capacity for epidemiological analysis.

The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) earned a 2025 AWS Champions Award for its initiative to modernize the state’s behavioral health IT ecosystem. Through a cloud-smart strategy, DBHDS dramatically improved service delivery, data transparency, and operational efficiency, setting a new standard for how public health services can be delivered at scale through cloud-native technologies.

The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for successfully transforming its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) by implementing Gainwell Technologies’ Claims, Encounters, and Financials (CEF) solution on AWS Cloud. This major modernization effort transitioned the state from an aging, inflexible legacy platform to a modern, scalable, and modular system capable of processing more than $5.7 billion in Medicaid claims annually — all while improving operational agility and supporting enhanced compliance with federal mandates.

The Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative modernization of two statewide digital platforms that support Texas’s early childhood education (ECE) ecosystem. Through its strategic migration to AWS, the institute improved system scalability, reduced operational overhead, and introduced intelligent automation that empowers more than 166,000 educators and administrators.

George Washington University (GW) has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its innovative use of AWS to amplify the capabilities of its high-performance computing (HPC) environment. By seamlessly integrating AWS with its on-premises Pegasus HPC system, GW has empowered researchers with greater flexibility, faster execution times, and access to advanced compute architectures. This is enabling cutting-edge research across scientific disciplines.

The Illinois Institute of Technology has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for reimagining the college admissions experience through a bold and forward-thinking use of AI and cloud technologies. By automating the traditionally manual transcript processing task using partner-built AI on AWS, the university has dramatically reduced evaluation timelines from weeks to just 24 hours. This has allowed the institution to unlock faster, more personalized engagement with prospective students.

Seattle University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its comprehensive cloud transformation initiative. By modernizing its entire IT infrastructure with AWS, the university has significantly improved flexibility, reduced operational complexity, and created a resilient, future-ready environment that enhances service delivery across campus.

St. John’s University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative efforts to modernize IT infrastructure, enhance operational agility, and bring AI-powered innovation to students and staff. By migrating a substantial portion of its on-premises environment to AWS, the university has built a resilient, cost-efficient cloud foundation that supports automation, remote learning, centralized reporting, and disaster recovery while also creating new opportunities for AI adoption across the institution.

The University of Delaware has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its pioneering use of AI to transform an archive of recorded lectures into an intelligent, interactive study companion. The initiative, led by the Academic Technology Services (ATS) team, introduced UD StudyAide, a generative AI-driven platform that connects concepts across disciplines and delivers personalized study tools to students, enriching how they engage with course content.

The University of St. Thomas has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its data modernization initiative that replaces siloed infrastructure with a unified, AI-ready data architecture. Leveraging a modern data mesh framework, the university is transforming how data is accessed, governed, and used to create a scalable foundation for integrations, business intelligence, automation, and AI innovation.

Vanderbilt University has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its groundbreaking development of Amplify GenAI — an open-source, enterprise-grade generative AI platform that brings cost-effective, secure, and scalable AI access to thousands of users across the university. Built entirely on AWS infrastructure, the platform supports a wide variety of academic and administrative use cases, transforming how the university community engages with AI technology.

Austin Independent School District (AISD) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its transformative journey to the cloud. This has been a multi-year initiative that began in 2017 and continues to evolve with a focus on cost efficiency, system resiliency, and data-driven innovation. Through its strategic partnership with AWS, AISD has not only modernized its infrastructure but is now unlocking the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to support smarter decision-making and improve educational outcomes.

Education Service Center Region 13 (ESC13) has been named a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its bold innovation in building Pulse, an AI-powered education platform that transforms how teachers interact with data and support student success. Built on AWS infrastructure and using generative AI models through Amazon Bedrock and Claude, Pulse gives teachers time back, relieves administrative burden, and delivers actionable insights to personalize instruction.

Jeffco Public Schools has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its visionary implementation of a cloud-native data lake architecture built on AWS. This district-wide solution unified siloed educational data into a single, intuitive platform, empowering over 9,000 educators with real-time, actionable insights and driving measurable improvements in student achievement.

CrisisGo’s newest solution, CrisisGo Connect, has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for revolutionizing emergency communication and incident management across community ecosystems. Built entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS), CrisisGo’s integrated platform empowers public safety agencies, schools, hospitals, and local governments to respond faster, coordinate more effectively, and communicate more clearly in both everyday safety operations and crisis situations.

CYPHER Learning has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its use of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure to reshape learning and development for modern organizations. Their innovative platform, built entirely on AWS and available in the AWS Marketplace, is redefining how companies build skills, develop talent, and engage learners in real time.

Gaggle has earned a 2025 AWS Champions Award for its work in protecting student mental health through an innovative blend of artificial intelligence, real-time monitoring, and human intervention —all powered by AWS. As the digital footprint of students grows and mental health crises intensify, Gaggle delivers a critical safety net that proactively identifies signs of distress, self-harm, violence, or abuse across school-managed communication and collaboration platforms.

Instructure, the global leader behind the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its use of AI to enhance educator productivity and promote inclusive learning. Their innovation, Ignite Agent, is an intelligent, AI-powered teaching assistant built using Amazon Bedrock and seamlessly integrated into the Canvas platform.

Modo Labs, in partnership with Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), has been recognized as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for delivering a student-centric, cloud-powered mobile platform that connects 90,000 students and faculty with critical campus resources. Built on AWS and powered by Modo’s no-code app development platform, Penn State Go delivers a seamless digital experience tailored to the needs of today’s mobile-first learners.