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Kambiz Shahim

Author: Kambiz Shahim

Kambiz Shahim is a Senior Solution Architect at AWS, where he helps life sciences customers improve patient outcomes through the power of cloud computing. With over 30 years of experience, he brings deep technical expertise and a passion for innovation. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family and cooking for his friends.

Reducing costs by 50% while processing population-scale genomics with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and AWS Batch

This post was contributed by Kambiz Shahim, Ankit Kalyani, and Chris Wright. Oxford Nanopore Technologies used Mountpoint for Amazon S3, AWS Batch, and Nextflow to build EPI2ME Cloud, a managed compute environment for processing human genomes at population-scale reliably and securely while reducing computational costs by 50%. EPI2ME Cloud forms Oxford Nanopore’s suite of local […]