AWS HealthOmics

AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies

, enabling you to restrict permissions for individual runs without creating and managing multiple IAM roles. Until now, there was no way to dynamically scope down permissions for a single run, requiring you to create a separate IAM role for each tenant or run.

AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new run metrics span CPU and GPU usage, memory usage, file system usage and I/O metrics, network throughput, and ephemeral storage usage.

AWS HealthOmics introduces resource fallback order for WDL workflows

Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces the resource fallback directive, enabling you to define an ordered list of preferred accelerator types, including an option to fallback to CPU instances, for tasks in your Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows.

AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for WDL workflows

AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows, enabling you to set maximum execution duration for individual tasks.

AWS HealthOmics now available in two additional AWS Regions

AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions, expanding access to fully-managed bioinformatics workflows for research, drug discovery, and agriculture science initiatives with regional compliance requirements.

AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows

AWS HealthOmics adds ephemeral storage for private workflows, giving bioinformatics workloads dedicated scratch space that delivers more consistent run performance and lower costs.

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles

, enabling customers to activate predefined execution settings at run time. Nextflow profiles allow customers to define reusable settings and select them at the point of execution, making it easy to switch between execution settings without modifying workflow source code.

AWS HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time

, enabling customers to monitor workflow execution progress as it happens. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs at scale with fully managed bioinformatics workflows.

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04

, enabling customers to take advantage of new Nextflow features and enhancements: record types, the strict syntax parser, workflow output summaries, and agent logging mode.

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version pinning at run time

AWS HealthOmics now allows customers to specify the Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API, enabling customers to pin runs to a specific Nextflow version for controlled migration.

AWS HealthOmics now supports caching of cancelled workflow runs

AWS HealthOmics now supports caching completed task outputs of cancelled runs, enabling customers to reuse outputs and avoid recomputing previously completed tasks.

AWS HealthOmics introduces VPC-connected workflows

AWS HealthOmics announces VPC-connected workflows, giving customers the ability to run bioinformatics pipelines that access AWS resources across regions and public internet resources through a customer’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

AWS HealthOmics introduces batch run operations

AWS HealthOmics announces batch run submission, allowing customers to submit up to 100,000 runs of any given workflow in a single request.