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AWS Healthcare Accelerator

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Regional cohorts for health startups, with AWS credits, clinical and technical mentoring, and introductions to health systems like the NHS.

AWS Healthcare Accelerator is for health tech startups (regional editions, such as the UK). Credits plus mentoring, varies by edition.

Credits
Varies by edition
Editions
Regional (e.g. UK)
Sector
Health and life sciences
Format
Cohort, equity-free

Status: may not be running right now

Inactive. No edition after the 2023 cohorts (ANZ Aged Care & Digital Health, Global Cohort for Workforce Development) was found, and the old AWS Startups programme URL returns 404. An AWS Startups page for the 2022 UK cohort now shows a '11 July 2024' date, and a news aggregator republished it in Jul 2026. Both are reposts of the 2022 announcement (demo day Apr 25, 2022), not new cohorts.

At a glance

Credits
Up to $25,000
Decision time
Workforce cohort: applications closed Jan 8, 2023 and the cohort was announced Mar 27, 2023 (about 11 weeks)
Access
Open application
Official application page

01 · Overview

A good fit if you are

  • Health startups ready to pilot with providers
  • Teams handling regulated health data

Not for

  • Wellness apps without clinical use
  • Teams outside the edition's region

Timeline and terms

Application window
Per edition. The last one found was the Workforce cohort, with applications from Nov 16, 2022 to Jan 8, 2023. Nothing is open now.
Decision time
Workforce cohort: applications closed Jan 8, 2023 and the cohort was announced Mar 27, 2023 (about 11 weeks)
Program length
4 weeks, virtual (ANZ ended with an Apr 27, 2023 showcase; the Workforce cohort ran Apr-May 2023 in US and EMEA time-zone tracks)
Where
Varies by edition: US (2021, Health Equity 2022), UK (2022, with PUBLIC), Australia/New Zealand (2023), global with US and EMEA tracks (Workforce 2023)

Workforce Development cohort (2022-23): 'up to USD 25,000 in AWS computing credits'. Other editions mention 'AWS Promotional Credits' or 'computing credits' without an amount.

02 · Eligibility

Hard eligibility rules

You must

  • Startup with a validated solution, existing customers and revenue (Workforce cohort)
  • Uses or plans to use AWS
  • Solution fits the edition's theme, e.g. training, retaining or deploying the health workforce; aged care (ANZ); health equity

Excluded

  • Pre-product or pre-revenue startups (Workforce cohort requirement)

Have this ready before you apply

  • Startup application describing the solution, customers and revenue
  • How you use or plan to use AWS
  • Fit with the edition's theme

03 · How to apply

How to apply

  1. 1

    Find the current regional edition.

  2. 2

    Apply with your product and pilot plans.

  3. 3

    Join the cohort if selected.

What catches founders out

  • Each edition has its own country rules.
  • Expect questions on data protection and clinical safety.

What founders report Show

Summarised from public founder posts. Anecdotal, not official AWS policy.

Gotchas

  • (Official AWS blog, participant quote) OneRecord, from the inaugural cohort, credited the programme with doors opened ahead of its acquisition about a year after demo day

04 · Credits & stacking

What the credits cover

Covered

  • AWS services under the AWS Promotional Credit Terms

Not covered

  • Amazon Mechanical Turk
  • AWS Managed Services
  • Ineligible AWS Support (Enterprise, Unified Operations, Enterprise On-Ramp, resold support, Partner-Led Support)
  • AWS Marketplace
  • AWS Professional Services
  • AWS Training
  • AWS Certification
  • Amazon Route 53 domain name registration or transfer
  • Services used for cryptocurrency mining
  • Upfront fees for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
  • Any other services designated by your AWS contracting entity

Stacking with other credits

Can combine with

  • AWS Activate (not stated explicitly; usual for AWS accelerators)

Past cohorts Show

202322 startups

Including: Proximie, eConsult, Visionable, Mytonomy, Supportiv

United Kingdom · United States · Canada · Germany

Source

202311 startups

Including: CancerAid, Gretel Analytics, Humanetix, Lysn, VaxApp

Australia · New Zealand

Source

202210 startups

Including: ClosedLoop.ai, Pair Team, Kinetik, Zócalo Health, Vincere Health

United States

Source

202212 startups

Including: Thymia, Dignio, PEP Health, Infinity Health, Dr Julian

United Kingdom (programme market; the 12 were drawn from 117 applications from 13 countries, and per-company HQs weren't verified)

Source

05 · Alternatives

If this isn't the right program

Sources

Checked October 2026. AWS can change amounts and rules at any time.

Facts on this page checked against official sources on 2026-10-04.

Questions

Is it only in the UK?

Editions have run in several regions; check the current one.

Prices and credit amounts are estimates and may change. Check AWS for current terms.

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