PTP Solves: How to Maximize EC2 Performance for Life Sciences Research Workloads
For life sciences organizations, time is often the most valuable resource. Whether you’re running computational chemistry models, next-gen sequencing pipelines, or AI-driven drug discovery, your Amazon EC2 performance directly affects your speed to insight. PTP partners with life sciences companies to fine-tune their EC2 environments, unlocking greater performance, lower costs, and faster time-to-value across high-compute workloads.
The Challenge: Compute Bottlenecks in a Cloud-First World
As life sciences firms migrate legacy HPC workloads to the cloud, many face issues like:
- Inconsistent instance sizing and usage patterns
- Latency between storage and compute
- Underutilized reserved instances or overreliance on spot markets
- Insufficient monitoring of real-time performance metrics
Without proactive optimization, these inefficiencies slow critical research and inflate cloud costs: two outcomes fast-paced biotech teams can’t afford.
The Solution: EC2 Performance Optimization at Scale
PTP works with biotech and pharmaceutical organizations to design high-performance EC2 environments aligned with the unique demands of life sciences workloads. Our approach includes:
- Instance right-sizing based on usage telemetry and growth forecasts
- Auto Scaling Groups to match compute demand in real time
- EBS and FSx for Lustre configurations optimized for data-intensive workflows
- Placement groups and Nitro-based networking for reduced latency
- Savings Plan recommendations that align performance needs with budget constraints
PTP has helped several research teams reduce runtime by 30–60% for large-scale protein modeling and genomics pipelines.
Real Results: Faster Compute, Smarter Spend
Life sciences clients that optimize EC2 with PTP benefit from:
- Shorter run times for modeling and analysis workloads
- Higher throughput for parallel computing tasks
- Lower cost per compute hour, improving budget predictability
- Streamlined DevOps pipelines for deploying HPC environments faster
For one mid-sized biopharma company, PTP helped reduce EC2 costs by over $100K annually while cutting NGS workflow times nearly in half.
Why It Matters for Life Sciences IT Leaders
As biotech organizations embrace cloud-native research, EC2 performance becomes a strategic differentiator. Whether supporting AI-driven drug pipelines or high-throughput screening, optimized EC2 environments are no longer optional: they’re essential.
If your team is hitting performance ceilings with EC2 (or just wants to know what’s possible), PTP can help.
We specialize in AWS architecture for life sciences workloads and understand the nuance of research IT.