Decreasing costs, and rapid technological innovation, have resulted in a tremendous increase in the volume of biological data being generated. At the same time, operations in life sciences organizations are becoming increasingly collaborative and complex. AWS provides a complete set of easy to use, flexible tools to help your company address these problems, including solutions for drug discovery, product development, supply chain management, and marketing and sales.

Working in the life sciences, your competitive advantage is dependent on your ability to remain agile and support the new ideas that are driving innovation in your organization. AWS offers the perfect place to experiment. With no up front requirements for large capital expense, you can resource projects instantly or augment your existing data centers for computationally demanding workloads.

AWS has the tools you need to operate efficiently and get the most out of your IT. Easily exploit reusable architecture patterns, automate rules-based infrastructure, and leverage continuous integration and deployment.

AWS makes it easy for you to coordinate with your global suppliers, partners, and staff based at other facilities. Operating in 11 regions and with customers in more than 190 countries, AWS facilitates swift, efficient collaboration even with large, complex data sets.

"We completed the equivalent of 39 years of computational chemistry in just under 9 hours."
Steve Litster, Ph.D., Global Head of Scientific Computing, Novartis

"We were able to get the cloud infrastructure up and ready in a record amount of time at a much lower cost than we could do ourselves."
Mark Field, CTO, Thermo Fisher Scientific

“The AWS Cloud enables swift collaboration even with hundreds of terabytes of data.”
Dr. Narayanan Veeraraghavan, Lead Programmer Scientist, Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine
The amount of data available in the life sciences is on the rise, and new pharmaceutical technology is needed to add insight throughout your value chain. AWS has the components to support your entire analytical pipeline, from data ingestion, analysis, and machine learning, through to visualization, storage, warehousing, and archiving.


Bristol-Myers Squibb's pharmacokinetics group used AWS to reduce the duration of a clinical trial by a year. Watch the video »
AWS makes it easy to manage deployment of IT assets for an industry heavily dependent on contract manufacturing and research organizations. Deploy virtual desktops that give your partners access to the resources they need, while avoiding storage of sensitive data outside your corporate network.

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