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Powering genomics innovations

For more than a decade, AWS has helped healthcare and life science organizations accelerate the translation of raw sequencing data into actionable insights through scalable, secure, and cost effective industry solutions.

AWS and AWS Partners have purpose-built services, tools, and solutions to help you migrate and securely store genomic data in the AWS cloud, accelerate secondary and tertiary analysis, and integrate genomic data into multi-modal datasets. Industry leaders such as Ancestry, AstraZeneca, Illumina, DNAnexus, Genomics EnglandGRAIL, and Nationwide Children's Hospital leverage AWS to accelerate time to insights while reducing costs and keeping their data secure.

AWS fuels the limitless potential of genomics (1:40)
Accelerate time to discovery
Access to the deepest portfolio of services and highest throughput offerings allow you to process more samples, run more complex analyses, and effectively query at scale.
Keep costs low and performance high
Continuously optimize spend while building modern, scalable applications. With the breadth of services and pricing options you can effectively manage costs for compute and storage.
Secure collaboration on a global scale
Discover tools, services, and visibility to move fast and collaborate while remaining secure and compliant. AWS supports more security standards and compliance certifications than any other offering.
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AWS HealthOmics

Build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data.
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AWS for Genomics: purpose-built industry solutions

AWS makes it easier to leverage genomics data with innovative technologies to provide scalable, secure, and cost effective solutions and technologies that accelerate genomic discoveries. Access a curated portfolio of validated AWS and AWS Partner solutions and services across the genomics workflow. 

Data transfer and storage

The volume and velocity of genomic data continues to increase in response to reduced sequencing costs and broader adoption. With AWS and AWS Partner solutions and services, you can transfer large volumes of genomic data to the cloud, reduce long term data storage costs, and collaborate securely across the globe.

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Stanford researchers accelerate autism research by sharing genomic data in the cloud.

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NIH’s Sequence Read Archive, the world’s largest genome sequence repository: Openly accessible on AWS

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Genomics Data Transfer & Storage in the Cloud - Best practices for addressing the challenges of the size, scale and management

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Transferring genomics data to the cloud and establishing data access patterns using AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway for files

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Build a genomics data lake on AWS

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Start your cloud modernization journey with AWS for Genomics

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Secondary analysis

Optimize workflows and reduce analysis time with a variety of workflow automation and secondary analysis solutions, including Cromwell, Nextflow, DRAGEN, and Sentieon.

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Astrazeneca’s genomics data processing solution runs 51 billion tests in 1 day on AWS.

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Illumina utilizes AWS to provide global, scalable access to its DRAGEN pipelines. 

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Hummingbird – a tool for effective prediction of performance and costs of genomics workloads on AWS

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Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch

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Executive Conversations: Completing the human reference genome with leaders of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium

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Genomics data transfer, analytics, and ML using AWS Services

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Data aggregation and governance

Discover solutions designed to simplify aggregating, storing, querying, analyzing, and governing genomics datasets, while quickly linking them with other forms of medical data. AWS provides robust data access controls and permissions to maintain data integrity as more collaborators and stakeholders come on board.

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To enable more democratized access to genomic data, Lifebit reengineered the traditional model for securing data—bringing its compute engine and analytics to the data itself.

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FDA's precisionFDA multi-omics cloud environment leverages AWS to connect data and tools to experts around the world, for validating variant calling technology.

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Executive Conversations: The era of genomics in the cloud with Global Alliance for Genomics & Health

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AWS genomics security executive brief

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Discover genomics datasets in the Registry of Open Data

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New capabilities make it easier for healthcare and life science customers to get started, build applications, and scale-up on AWS HealthOmics

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Tertiary analysis and ML

With access to powerful machine learning and high-performance compute resources, you can turn genomic data into biological insight, informing drug discovery and clinical applications.

Find greater computing efficiency at-scale, reproducible data processing, data integration capabilities for pulling in multi-modal datasets that accelerate the discovery of insights and uncover new correlations, and public data for clinical annotation―all in a compliance-ready environment.  

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Regeneron brings large-scale genomics to drug discovery using AWS.

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A distributed infrastructure helps QBiC analyze gene expression to find mutations that may be involved in cancer.

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Genomics tertiary analysis and data lakes solution

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Guidance for Multi-Omics and Multi-Modal Data Integration and Analysis on AWS

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Transform genomic and biological data into insights with AWS HealthOmics

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Analyzing genomic data using Amazon Genomics CLI and Amazon SageMaker

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Clinical genomics

With insights from patient's genetic codes, clinicians can make more accurate diagnoses and more effective treatment decisions faster. Industry leaders around the world rely on AWS and AWS Partner secure and compliant solutions to implement genomics in a clinical setting.   

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Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance uses AWS to support genomic testing for cancer and rare diseases.

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GRAIL develops a pioneering multicancer early detection test using AWS.

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Executive Conversations: Driving precision oncology care using multi-modal data with Philips

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Executive Conversations: Unlocking the potential of integrated diagnostics with REALM

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Executive Conversations: Catalyzing the next generation of cancer care with Genomics England

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Building a resilient and scalable clinical genomics analysis pipeline with AWS

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Raise the bar on security and compliance

To help genomics organization adhere to industry compliance regulations, and protect PHI, AWS maintains more security standards and compliance certifications than any other offering, including: HITRUST, GDPR compliance, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 3425. 

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Innovate with key industry partners

Discover purpose-built genomics 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.

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Customers can work with  AWS Life Sciences Competency Partners to build innovative, cost-effective, and secure solutions that have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building genomics solutions on AWS.

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Accelerate innovation through the continuum of care with third-party genomics solutions.

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