AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows

AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows, offering bioinformatics workloads dedicated scratch space that delivers more consistent run performance and lower costs. Each workflow task now receives a dedicated local volume mounted at /tmp, and workflows that generate significant scratch data, such as genomic sequence alignment, BAM sorting, and variant calling, can experience faster run times. By default, each task includes 16 GiB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge. You can increase the amount of ephemeral storage allocated to individual tasks, up to a maximum of 3,072 GiB per task, using the appropriate directive in your WDL, Nextflow, or CWL workflow definition. You can enable ephemeral storage at runtime with the StartRun API. All ephemeral storage volumes are encrypted and deleted when a task terminates. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS HealthOmics is offered: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul).