Chapter 19The Role of the Intelligent Cloud
Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.
Paul Maritz
Computer Scientist, and Software Executive
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna decided to build the company’s mRNA research and development platform in the cloud to create what CEO Stéphane Bancel calls “software for life.”1 Moderna’s leadership team saw the cloud as a means to accelerate therapeutic discovery and development. When the pandemic hit, this strategy proved prescient. Thanks mainly to the cloud and AI, Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate to the US National Institutes of Health for phase one trials in just 42 days. According to Bancel, this was ...
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