Craic makes use of several of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) portfolio to help with our bioinformatics work.

We use EC2 nodes for general computation and as dedicated servers. We store large datasets of sequence and text data on the S3 storage service. Frequently used datasets are stored on EBS volumes and attached to EC2 nodes as needed. Queues of sequence comparison jobs are managed using the SQS queuing service.

In 2008 we wrote a tutorial on the aws-sdb Ruby interface to the SimpleDB key-value store on AWS.