Security, industry compliance, and data sovereignty
Data aggregation
& governance
Data transfer
& storage
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Workflow automation
for secondary analysis
Interpretation & ML
for tertiary analysis
Clinical translation
Security across the genomics workflow with AWS
DNA is the most personal source of data. The handling, storing, interpreting, and analyzing of
genomic data requires a commitment to security and regulatory compliances across the entire
genomics workflow.
From clinical genomics to population - scale programs, the genomics industry builds on Amazon
Web Services' (AWS) secure cloud environment to create compliant genomics applications. For
almost a decade, genomics organizations have leveraged the robust suite of security tools and
shared responsibility model of AWS to reduce operational burdens, ranging from hosting
operating systems to ensuring physical security.
With AWS, you get the breadth and depth of capabilities needed to create a highly secure cloud
environment that simplifies and improves the way you manage, analyze, and share genomics data.
An internal team of genomics experts work closely with AWS product engineers to understand the
implications of industry - specific regulations on data sovereignty, aggregation, ownership, and
provenance — letting you focus on the science .
Achieve industry
compliance and
regulations faster
Genomic data security and
compliance on the AWS Cloud
S peed and scalability as you want it. Security and compliance as you need it.
Data provenance & governance
Improve data auditability, and monitor and control authorization using integrated
AWS services on the Cloud that make it easy to automatically receive alerts and
granularly track who accesses and changes data, while controlling data versions.
Data sovereignty
AWS provides a wide offering of regional instances to enable in - country data hosting.
With 80 Availability Zones across 245 countries and territories , genomics
organizations can take full advantage of the cloud and meet domestic and
international regulatory standards, including GDPR .
Data ownership
Maintain existing security and compliance postures including inter - team data
enclaves. As the sole owner of the encryption key for each unique data set, no one
can see or access your data on AWS but you.
Data aggregation
Apply FAIR governance policies over stored, pooled data using built - in metadata tags
and identity - based permission controls to make data findable and accessible to
authorized users only.
"AWS gives us enhanced security
to help us comply with strict
patient health information (PHI)
data - protection requirements."
"Data stays in our clients'
environments, and all of the AWS
safety features keep it secure."
"Dedicated to security and privacy,
Illumina relies on AWS' global
infrastructure to keep our platform,
products, and web applications
secure for our customers and
partners worldwide."
