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.

New! Generative AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences resource hub

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. 

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.  

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Industry-specific expertise and experience

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. 

Most secure cloud

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.

Most purpose-built services and solutions

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.

Largest community of industry-specific partners

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.

Pfizer uses AI on AWS to achieve the scale to treat more than 1.3 billion people with medicines and vaccines, and validate protein targets in a faction of the time.

Pfizer uses AI and AWS to achieve the scale to treat more than 1.3 billion people with medicines and vaccines while saving tens of millions of dollars annually.

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Gilead uses generative AI on AWS for transforming target identification, established on a resilient cloud infrastructure and solid data foundations,

Gilead uses generative AI on AWS for transforming target identification, established on a resilient cloud infrastructure and solid data foundations.

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AstraZeneca Breaks the Boundaries of Science to Deliver Life-changing Medicines, Powered by AWS

AstraZeneca Breaks the Boundaries of Science to Deliver Life-changing Medicines, Powered by AWS.

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Built for breakthroughs: AWS for Life Sciences

Reinvent your business with data and AI and bring differentiated therapeutics to market faster while increasing ROI and improving your compliance posture.

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. 

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Roche accelerates personalized health R&D, reducing analysis time by 80% while reducing storage costs by 90% using Amazon HealthOmics.

Roche accelerates personalized health R&D, reducing analysis time by 80% while reducing storage costs by 90% using Amazon HealthOmics.

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A-Alpha Bio Boosts the Performance of Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction by 10x Using NVIDIA BioNeMo on AWS

A-Alpha Bio boosts the performance of protein-protein interaction prediction by 10x using NVIDIA BioNeMo on AWS.

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Sanofi Drives Scientific Innovation with AI on AWS for Real-Life Patient Impact.

Sanofi expedited drug discovery, enhanced trial efficiency, and improved manufacturing processes with predictive AI on AWS.

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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.

Service Spotlight

Amazon Bedrock

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with industry-leading foundation models (FMs) that can be fine-tuned using your own data and guardrails for use cases like early target validation and protein folding analyses.

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AWS HealthOmics

Power large-scale analysis and collaborative research to accelerate drug discovery breakthroughs. Store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to generate insights that matter.

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Amazon Q

A generative AI–powered assistant that can be customized for research data querying and summarization, administrative tasks, and report generation by integrating your own data and systems.

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AWS Clean Rooms

Helps research organizations easily and securely analyze and collaborate on collective datasets–without sharing or copying one another's underlying data, and customers can apply machine learning with other researchers with Clean Rooms ML.

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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 deploys an efficient, scalable, and automated method to run custom-built digital biomarkers on trial participants’ wearable device data from large global clinical trials.

Pfizer deploys an efficient, scalable, and automated method to run custom-built digital biomarkers on trial participants’ wearable device data from large global clinical trials.

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Gilead uses generative AI on AWS to better the feasibility of its clinical trials, allowing them to optimize site selection through AI-driven protocol analysis utilizing both internal and real-world datasets.

Gilead uses generative AI on AWS to better the feasibility of its clinical trials, allowing them to optimize site selection through AI-driven protocol analysis utilizing both internal and real-world datasets.

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Genentech Maximizes the Value of Clinical Biomarker Data Using AWS, reducing time to analyze clinical data from weeks to hours

Genentech maximizes the value of clinical biomarker data using AWS, reducing time to analyze clinical data from weeks to hours.

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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.

Service Spotlight

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase models.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Automates undifferentiated database management tasks, such as provisioning, configuring, backing up, and patching.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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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 uses generative AI on AWS to reduce false rejects by 50% across production lines.

Merck uses generative AI on AWS to reduce false rejects by 50% across production lines.

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Aizon Improves Pharmaceutical Manufacturing With Artificial Intelligence Using AWS

Aizon improves pharmaceutical manufacturing with AI on AWS.

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Novo Nordisk Uses ML for Computer Vision to Optimize Pharmaceutical Manufacturing on AWS

Novo Nordisk uses computer vision and ML to automate key tasks on manufacturing lines.

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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.

Service Spotlight

Amazon Bedrock

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with industry-leading foundation models (FMs) that can be fine-tuned using your own data and guardrails. 

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AWS Supply Chain

A cloud-based application that unifies data, provides ML-powered actionable insights, and offers built-in contextual collaboration.

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AWS Forecast

A fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning algorithms to deliver highly accurate time-series forecasts.

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AWS IoT Solutions

A collection of solutions to connect devices, and collect, store, and analyze device data.

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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 leverages Amazon Pharmacy to provides home delivery of select diabetes, obesity, and migraine medications to LillyDirect patients

Eli Lilly leverages Amazon Pharmacy to provide home delivery of select diabetes, obesity, and migraine medications to LillyDirect patients.

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Alynlam transforms product complaint management with Amazon Bedrock, enhancing employee productivity and decreasing the time to triage product complaints from 3 days to hours.

Alynlam transforms product complaint management with Amazon Bedrock, enhancing employee productivity and decreasing the time to triage product complaints from 3 days to hours.

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Alcon has increased efficiency and satisfaction of its sales representatives by modernizing its monolithic Custom Pak Designer application using AWS, helping sales representatives create custom material packs for eye surgeons.

Alcon increases efficiency and satisfaction of its sales representatives by modernizing its monolithic Custom Pak Designer application using AWS, helping sales representatives create custom material packs for eye surgeons. 

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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.

Service Spotlight

Amazon Pinpoint

A flexible, scalable marketing communications service that connects you with customers over email, SMS, push notifications, or voice.

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Amazon Cognito

Helps organizations to implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management at scale.

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Amazon Athena

A serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

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Amazon Quicksight

Cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds.

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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

AWS offers the largest network of partners, along with flexible workflow choice, and options for fully managed solutions to help you get to life sciences insights faster.

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AWS Retail Competency Partner Content hub

Accelerate life sciences innovation, discovery, and development with third-party purpose-built solutions.

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