Customer Stories / Life Sciences
2022
AstraZeneca Breaks the Boundaries of Science to Deliver Life-changing Medicines, Powered by AWS
AstraZeneca discovers, develops, and commercializes prescription medicines in oncology and biopharmaceuticals, including in cardiovascular, respiratory, and immunology fields. It serves millions of patients across 145 countries and 70 markets.
In this video, Anna Berg Åsberg, global vice president R&D IT at AstraZeneca (AZ), shares how AZ is using data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) in its ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death and protect the lives of patients suffering with heart failure and lung disease. To do so, data collection and analysis in multi-omics, image scans, and remote patient data is critical. AZ and Amazon Web Services (AWS) run hundreds of concurrent data science and ML projects. AZ has moved 25 petabytes of data across the AWS global network, generating 75 petabytes of intermediary data in the process, resulting in the ability to run 110 billion statistical tests in under 30 hours and gain insights that influence patient health.
Today, our Center of Genomics Research is on track to analyze up to 2 million whole genomes by 2026. The scale of our genome database is massive. And it’s really hard to manage a database at that scale, but we do it together with AWS.”
Anna Berg Åsberg
Global Vice President R&D IT, AstraZeneca
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AstraZeneca’s Genomics Data Processing Solution Runs 51 Billion Tests in 1 Day on AWS
Using AWS, biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca built a cloud-based, efficient, scalable solution that processes genomics sequencing data quickly. -
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AstraZeneca Breaks the Boundaries of Science to Deliver Life-changing Medicines, Powered by AWS
AstraZeneca discovers, develops, and commercializes prescription medicines in oncology and biopharmaceuticals, including in cardiovascular, respiratory, and immunology fields. It serves millions of patients across 145 countries and 70 markets. -
United Kingdom
AstraZeneca Transforms Pharmaceutical Research and Development with Industrialized Machine Learning on AWS
In this presentation, hear about AstraZeneca’s journey to build a flexible, compliant platform to accelerate their drug research process, and how it collaborated with the Amazon Machine Learning (ML) Solutions Lab to make it happen. -
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How AstraZeneca built a large scale cloud compute system in record time with AWS
Learn how AstraZeneca scaled their machine learning model to the cloud using Amazon EC2 P3 instances and Amazon EKS to accelerate their drug discovery process.
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