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Michael Mueller

Author: Michael Mueller

Michael Mueller is a Senior Genomics Solutions Architect at AWS. He is passionate about helping customers to combine the power of genomics and cloud computing to improve healthcare. He likes exploring the big city jungle of London as much as the outdoors of the UK and Europe.

Optimize Nextflow Workflows on AWS Batch with Mountpoint for Amazon S3

Are you running genomic workflows with Nextflow on AWS Batch and experiencing bottlenecks when staging large reference files? In this post, we will show you how to optimize your workflow performance by leveraging Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to stream reference data directly into your Nextflow processes, eliminating the need to stage large static files repeatedly.