As society comes to grips with the growing worldwide crisis related to the COVID-19 virus, many companies are stepping up in different ways.

Today, two major tech companies — Amazon and IBM — each announced programs to encourage developers find solutions to a variety of problems related to the pandemic.

For starters, AWS, Amazon’s cloud arm, announced the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative.

The program is designed to assist and encourage teams working on COVID-19 diagnostic issues with the goal of developing better diagnostic tooling.

The company hopes to incentivize developers working on these issues to help solve some of these problems. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584741607.7033818/AWS,-IBM-launch-programs-to-encourage-developers-solving-COVID-19-problems-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience