Design principles

Monitor usage patterns: Life sciences workloads often have unpredictable usage spikes during research phases or clinical trials. Continuously monitor usage and costs at the application and workload level to scale resources efficiently.

Align costs to business value: Prioritize cost optimization for workloads directly driving research breakthroughs or enabling mission-critical applications. Optimize lower-value workloads over time.

Implement flexible capacity: Use a mix of On-Demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances to balance performance, availability, and cost for compute-intensive research and development workloads.

Centralize cost visibility: Implement Cloud Financial Management to provide organization-wide cost transparency and accountability, aligning IT spend to business priorities.