AWS HealthImaging
DICOM medical image storage
A managed store for DICOM-standard medical images at petabyte scale, with fast sub-second retrieval and DICOMweb API support for viewer, diagnostic, and AI applications.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?A little
- Serverless
Think of it asLike a hospital's giant digital X-ray film archive: stored forever, pulled up instantly when needed.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Hospitals and healthcare platforms that need to store and retrieve diagnostic imaging long term.
✗ Avoid it when
Medical records or text data → HealthLake; genomic data → HealthOmics.
Common uses
- PACS storage in the cloud
- Serve images to web-based viewers
- Training data for diagnostic imaging AI
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged per GB stored per month (with frequent and infrequent access tiers) and by number of API calls.
