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How to Secure Proteomics Research in AWS with Role-Based Access Controls
A step-by-step guide for life sciences teams migrating Amazon SageMaker Domain resources into a new private domain. Covers inventory, EFS home directory migration, Studio app and image recreation, plus validation for regulated workloads.
Streamlining Vaccine Development: How Life Sciences Teams Can Use Boltz to Build a Compliant, End-to-End Pipeline
Life sciences teams face increasing complexity and regulatory pressure in vaccine development. This article explains how Boltz supports compliant, traceable pipelines from research through clinical transition.
Lab in a Box: Automated Data Compliance for Biotech
PTP’s Lab in a Box automates secure, GxP-compliant lab data transfer from instruments to AWS using Storage Gateway, DataSync, VPN connectivity, Entra ID access controls, and policy-driven S3 storage, with deployment in about four weeks.
How to Secure Proteomics Research in AWS with Role-Based Access Controls
A growing biopharma company needed to streamline and secure researcher access to sensitive AWS-hosted proteomics data while meeting auditable internal controls. PTP built a region-specific, role-based access model in AWS that enforced least privilege, improved governance, and reduced friction for teams.
How Life Sciences Companies Can Maximize EC2 Performance for Research Workloads
PTP explains how life sciences teams can maximize Amazon EC2 performance for HPC research workloads by right-sizing instances, tuning storage and networking, and using Auto Scaling and Savings Plans. The approach can cut runtimes 30–60% and reduce annual EC2 spend by $100K+.
How to Upgrade Slurm Headnode Swapspace to 10GB for Better Cluster Performance
PTP’s guide shows how to upgrade Slurm headnode swapspace to 10GB to improve HPC cluster stability and responsiveness under heavy job loads. It walks through checking current swap, creating or resizing a swapfile, enabling it, and making the change persistent.
How to Create Terraform Code to Implement Monitoring in Your Cloud Environment
PTP’s Terraform Cloud monitoring guide shows how to automate observability as infrastructure as code, with practical examples for AWS CloudWatch alarms, Datadog monitors, and Prometheus + Grafana deployments. Standardize alerts, reduce misconfigurations, and keep monitoring version-controlled.
Navigating the Legal Landscape: Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI in Life Sciences
Startups in biotech and digital health face regulatory and security challenges as they scale. In a recent session, PTP explored best practices in data privacy, cybersecurity, and legal risk management—especially when integrating AI in life sciences.
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🎯 Welcome to the AWS Life Sciences Symposium! Play for a chance to WIN AN APPLE IPAD while learning how PTP helps life sciences companies succeed in the cloud.We’re excited to support AWS at the Life Sciences Symposium 2025 — and we’ve got a fun challenge for you!...