[lebovic]

For fast-moving researchers who are blocked by a queue, cloud computing still makes sense. I guess I wasn't clear enough in the last section about how I still use AWS for startup-scale computational biology. My scientific computing startup (trytoolchest.com) is 100% built on top of AWS.

Most scientific computing still happens on supercomputers in slower moving academic or big co settings. That's the group for whom cloud computing – or at least running everything on the cloud – doesn't make sense.

[adolph]

Another service that runs on AWS is CodeOcean. It looks like Toolchest is oriented toward facilitating execution of specific packages rather than organization and execution like CodeOcean. Is that a fair summary?

https://codeocean.com/explore

[lebovic]

Yep, that's right! Toolchest focuses on compute, deploying and optimizing popular scientific computing packages.