Setting up an AWS account
AWS is an amazing system for running computations and storing data on the cloud. You can build virtual servers, run websites, and more.
One of the key uses of the cloud is bioinformatics data storage. Sequencing and other types of experiments generate massive amounts of data these days, and cloud storage provides a reliable, expandable, and cost-effective method for storing this data.
On AWS, the main storage is called Simple Storage Service, or S3. It can grow to store your data as needed, and you pay only for what you use. It can store exabyte levels of data and has incredibly high reliability. You can set up archiving rules to send the data to Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive, which hold the data in slower-access but lower-cost states to save money (https://aws.amazon.com/pm/s3-glacier/). This means Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive take longer to retrieve your data – you have to request to unarchive your files before using them. However, data...
