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AWS for Life Sciences

Built for breakthroughs: discover why 9 out of the top 10 pharma companies globally choose AWS for data analytics and machine learning.

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From generating new therapeutic candidates, to better matching patients with the right clinical trials, to powering patient engagement applications, AWS makes it easier to access the services, data, models, and secure infrastructure needed to scale generative AI across your organization. Learn how generative AI can accelerate health innovations and improve patient experiences. 
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Innovation for insights that matter

AWS, the cloud trusted by 9 out of the top 10 pharma companies globally, helps hundreds of life sciences customers increase ROI, securely share data to speed discovery, improve their compliance postures, and bring differentiated therapeutics to market faster. AWS provides the most comprehensive set of data, IoT, and AI services, purpose-built services designed to handle complex health data, and a dedicated team of experienced life sciences industry specialists and partners – all on the most secure, most extensive global infrastructure.  

Benefits

Why choose AWS for Life Sciences

From helping the FDA first digitize manual reporting, to helping Moderna rapidly scale during the COVID-19 pandemic, AWS has collaborated deeply with life sciences customers of all sizes and disciplines to overcome complex challenges. 

AWS is the most secure, compliant, and resilient cloud for life sciences with the highest network availability of any cloud provider, and offering more than 146 HIPAA-eligible services and certifications for global compliance standards, like GDPR, GxP, and HITRUST CSF.

With 6 services built specifically for healthcare and life sciences use cases—more than any other cloud provider—AWS makes it easier to access, analyze, and extract key insights from complex unstructured data.

AWS enables life sciences organizations to discover and select the best offerings to address their unique business needs and accelerate time-to-value through the AWS Partner Network and AWS Marketplace.

Customer Stories

Sanofi

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Gilead

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AstraZeneca

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Research and development

Accelerate time to discovery, de-risk portfolios, and advance candidates into development faster with AWS, all while maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy. 

Roche

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Pfizer

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Noetik

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Institut Pasteur

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Key Use Cases

Lab digitization

Establish connected lab environments that automate data collection and create data products with the most complete set of IoT services, and prescriptive guidance.

Research data management & collaboration

Easily deploy clean room environments for secure third-party collaboration and data sharing, and summarize scientific literature with generative AI.

Pharmacogenomics

Accelerate the integration of genomic data into drug discovery and development using purpose-built industry services like AWS HealthOmics.

High-throughput modeling and screening

Chose from the latest models for drug discovery to find the answers you need faster, automate manual tasks, visualize protein structures and sequences, perform docking studies, and run protein folding algorithms in a single, easy-to-use interface.

Clinical development

Power the entire clinical development process—from more effective and inclusive trials to streamlining the regulatory submission process. AWS and AWS Partner solutions help securely capture and extract insights from the massive amounts of data generated during clinical trials, facilitate decentralized trials, and effectively collaborate between stakeholders. 

Pfizer

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Merck

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Novo Nordisk

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FDA

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Key Use Cases

Trial data management

Unify disperse data sources, find and integrate the right data from trusted data providers, extract key insights, and scale clinical trials around the globe.

Protocol design & trial optimization

Develop more effective and efficient clinical trials using Amazon Q – the most capable generative AI-powered assistant.

Regulatory submission process

Optimize and automate workflows to submit clinical trial results to regulators in a more streamlined manner.

Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Gain end-to-end visibility into your manufacturing and supply chain process to drive new efficiencies, improve resiliency, and avoid compliance violations with the most comprehensive suite of data, analytics, and IoT services. Unlock new insights and proactively identify potential disruptions with advanced analytics offerings and AI tools trained on Amazon’s own datasets.

Merck

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Baxter

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Amazon Pharmacy

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Lyell

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Use Cases

Manufacturing optimization

Break down data silos, leverage generative AI and advanced analytics to derive meaningful insights, and increase machine up-time with AWS.

Supply chain resiliency

Get end-to-end visibility and traceability needed to reduce supply chain costs and risks, improve agility with faster decisions, and mitigate overstock and stock-out risks.

Regulatory compliance

Easily integrate generative AI into your existing applications to quickly identify and remediate compliance violations.

Commercialization & Medical Affairs

Turn your data into a strategic asset to help you focus on more targeted product launches, gain deeper customer insights, and create more personalized patient experiences by leveraging the most comprehensive suite of data, analytics, and AI offerings. 

Eli Lilly

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Alnylam

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Alcon

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Moderna

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Use Cases

Adverse event detection

Quickly identify and summarize adverse event data across a matrix of data sources at scale.

Real world evidence and Real world data

More easily identify the right data partners for your specific needs, and accelerate the collection, management, and analysis of real-world data and evidence.

Personalized patient experiences

Harness the power of generative AI to deliver more personalized patient engagements with interactive chatbots and localized marketing collateral creation.

Innovate with key industry partners

Discover purpose-built life sciences solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.

AWS Partner Network

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AWS Marketplace

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