AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Aaron Friedman, PhD
Aaron Friedman, PhD is a Principal Product Manager for Amazon Omics. He listens to customers, defines requirements, and ensures that AWS helps customers advance scientific discovery and precision medicine. Prior to that, he spent 5+ years in AWS solutions architect leadership roles, helping healthcare and life sciences ISVs, SIs, and startups build on AWS. Outside of work, he loves to spend time with his family and learn new things to cook.
Building a Real World Evidence Platform on AWS
Deriving insights from large datasets is central to nearly every industry, and life sciences is no exception. To combat the rising cost of bringing drugs to market, pharmaceutical companies are looking for ways to optimize their drug development processes. They are turning to big data analytics to better quantify the effect that their drug compounds […]
Interactive Analysis of Genomic Datasets Using Amazon Athena
Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services The genomics industry is in the midst of a data explosion. Due to the rapid drop in the cost to sequence genomes, genomics is now central to many medical advances. When your genome is sequenced and analyzed, raw sequencing files are […]
Optimize Amazon S3 for High Concurrency in Distributed Workloads
In today’s blog post, I will discuss how to optimize Amazon S3 for an architecture commonly used to enable genomic data analyses. This optimization is important to my work in genomics because, as genome sequencing continues to drop in price, the rate at which data becomes available is accelerating.