Security

The security pillar provides AWS recommendations that assist to meet your business and regulatory requirements. The practices in this pillar inform architectures that protect GxP workloads and data, control access, and respond automatically to security events.

Life sciences is a heavily regulated industry to protect public health and patient safety by maintaining the quality, safety, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other products that directly impact health.

Life sciences companies have an obligation to maintain data integrity, which begins with strong security measures. Therefore, it is important that a well-architected security and adherence program is used by life sciences entities when they move workloads to the cloud. A well-architected security program helps organizations design and operate workloads while meeting the necessary regulations, aligning with the proper frameworks, and maintaining data integrity.

However, it is important to note that the AWS Well-Architected core covers security best practices which are industry agnostic. Therefore, there are few additional best practices added by this industry lens.