As the race for vaccine intensifies, Moderna chooses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud vendor. The leading biotech company in the race to find COVID vaccine has opted for AWS as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads.
Moderna’s proprietary technologies and all of its SAP S/4 HANA workloads run on AWS, including manufacturing, accounting, and inventory management enabling the company towards better efficiency.
AWS’ press release stated Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate against COVID-19 for the Phase 1 trial, leveraging its mRNA Platform and manufacturing facility with AWS-powered research engine.
“AWS’s breadth and depth of services are instrumental in our quest to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases.”
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The automated production facility, which runs AWS IoT services to connect the manufacturing instruments, robotics, and other critical systems that quickly deliver the mRNA constructs for experimentation are powered by AWS.
The media release stated Moderna used AWS to replicate the digital manufacturing model to increase production capacity.
“With AWS, our researchers have the ability to quickly design and execute research experiments and rapidly uncover new insights to get potentially life-saving treatments into production faster”, said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s Chief Executive Officer
“AWS’s breadth and depth of services are instrumental in our quest to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases.”
Leveraging Amazon Redshift – AWS’s fully managed data warehousing service – Moderna’s scientists and engineers aggregate results from dozens of experiments that are running in parallel and can easily query and share insights to refine their design and production cycle quickly.
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