Amazon Omics Pricing

As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Omics for free. Your Free Tier starts from the first month when you create your first Amazon Omics resource. The details of the Amazon Omics Free Tier are in the table below.

When you store genomic sequences in Amazon Omics storage, you pay for storage per gigabase per month. A gigabase is one billion bases from your imported sequence files (such as FASTQ, BAM, and CRAM). Amazon Omics storage stores the bases, quality scores, alignments, and other metadata from your source files. You pay per gigabase stored, so you don’t need to worry about optimal file formats or compression techniques. Amazon Omics takes care of all of that for you.

Sequence objects are called read sets and are logically equivalent to a FASTQ, BAM, or CRAM file. Amazon Omics storage offers you an active storage class and an archive storage class for your read sets. Read sets in the archive class cost less per month to store than read sets in the active class. Read sets in the active class can be accessed in milliseconds, while read sets in the archive tier need to be activated before they can be accessed. After read sets have not been accessed for 30 days, they automatically move to the lower-cost archive storage class until they are reactivated.

There is no import fee for read sets. Amazon Omics storage data is charged for a minimum storage duration of 30 days, and data deleted before 30 days incurs a prorated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Amazon Omics storage is designed for long-lived but infrequently accessed data that is retained for years.

You pay for GET requests made to your read-set objects. All other request types on read sets are free.

Amazon Omics analytics helps you prepare your genomic variant data and genomic annotations for use with the broad suite of AWS analytics and machine learning services such as Amazon Athena and Amazon SageMaker. You can store any amount of genomic variant data, and you only pay for what you store. Data size is defined as the size of transformed data. However, when you query and analyze the data in other services, you pay for the use of those services.

Amazon Omics analytics data is charged for a minimum storage duration of 30 days, and data deleted before 30 days incurs a prorated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days.

Amazon Omics also manages the interpretation and execution of bioinformatics workflows. Amazon Omics workflows can run bioinformatics scripts written in the two most commonly used workflow languages, WDL and Nextflow. A single execution of these scripts is called a run. You pay only for what you use and are billed separately for omics instance types and run storage. All tasks in your workflow are mapped to the instance that is the best fit for their defined resources. For example, a task that is defined to use 8 CPUs and 60 GB of RAM will map to the omics.r.2xlarge instance type for execution. Workflow logs are stored in Amazon CloudWatch logs in your account and billed in CloudWatch for as long as you choose to retain them. You can configure the service to report resource use per run for simplified budgeting, planning, and accounting.