Case Study: Butterfly Network expands access to affordable medical imaging with Amazon Web Services

Butterfly Network Brings Medical Imaging to More People in More Places Using AWS

Butterfly Network developed the Butterfly iQ, an affordable handheld whole-body ultrasound that aims to make medical imaging universally accessible. To scale its cloud-based imaging, analytics, and AI features—and to meet strict HIPAA requirements—the company needed reliable, high-performance storage and compute for large-scale deep-learning workloads and secure, shareable image management.

Butterfly built its Butterfly Cloud on AWS (Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, EFS, and HPC tooling), gaining massively parallel, low-latency storage, scalable compute, and HIPAA-eligible services. The move cut cluster failures and downtime, sped regulatory compliance, and let data scientists focus on models that enable AI-guided imaging and global collaboration—helping the company deliver smarter, more widely available ultrasound care.

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Jack Levy

Head of Cloud Engineering