Amazon, Google race to get your DNA into the cloud

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As Reuters reports, Amazon.com is in a race against Google to store data on human DNA. Inherently, academic institutions and healthcare companies find themselves having to pick sides between their cloud computing offerings – Google Genomics and Amazon Web Services. A number of clients view Google and Amazon as doing a better job at storing genomics data than they can do using their own computers, keeping it secure, controlling costs and allowing it to be easily shared…

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