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Author: Reginald Johnson
Reginald Johnson is a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in the New York metro area. He has more than 15 years of experience helping customers solve business challenges through technology at global scale.
How to set up Galaxy for research on AWS using Amazon Lightsail
Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and digital preservation platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming or systems administration experience. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, it is largely domain agnostic and is now used as a general bioinformatics workflow management system, running on everything from academic mainframes to personal computers. But researchers and organizations may worry about capacity and the accessibility of compute power for those with limited or restrictive budgets. In this blog post, we explain how to implement Galaxy on the cloud at a predictable cost within your research or grant budget with Amazon Lightsail.