Genomics on AWS:
Accelerating scientific discoveries and powering business agility
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Today's genomics landscape is rapidly evolving with the accelerated adoption of genomics by
biopharma organizations, infectious disease tracing programs, and healthcare systems.
Organizations that are addressing new market opportunities and embracing innovative genomics
applications and technologies are looking to the cloud to stay agile, innovative, and economical.
For almost a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has helped genomics organizations such as
Ancestry , DNAnexus , GRAIL , and Illumina optimize their businesses and build scalable
infrastructure to accelerate scientific discoveries.
Genomics organizations of all sizes and disciplines choose AWS to meet their unique business
needs, which span from using AWS machine learning services to bridge limitations in NGS
infectious disease applications, to leveraging AWS global infrastructure to seamlessly deploy
globally in a secure and compliant manner.
H ow AWS supports genomics
Technical and business experts from AWS collaborate with genomics customers to address common operational and
business challenges, such as providing best practices for deploying analysis workflows at scale and integrating with open -
source projects such as Cromwell or Nextflow . AWS works commercially with ISVs, such as Illumina's DRAGEN ™ Bio - IT
Platform and Sentieon , to make their applications available through native and platform services. Finally, the AWS Open
Data team works with public data providers such as gnomAD and the NIH to make their datasets available to all AWS
customers at the click of a button.
Clinical translation
Interpretation & ML
for tertiary analysis
Data aggregation
& governance
Data transfer & storage
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Workflow automation
for secondary analysis
Security, industry compliance, and data sovereignty
Reduce time to discovery
AstraZeneca leverages AWS to run over 51 billion
statistical genomics tests in <24 hours.
Optimize cost
Illumina reduced costs by ~$400k/month on AWS.
Scale seamlessly
With AWS, Igenomix realized a 600% increase in
sample capacity
Achieve compliance globally
• HITRUST
• GDPR
• FedRAMP
• HIPAA
• ISO 27001
• ISO 3425
Access to industry tools and datasets
