Since launching in 2022, pods became our fastest growing product. Now, you can run pods in your AWS account.
What is a latch pod?
Latch pods are scientific computing environments built for biology. Pods let you run biological data science and machine learning applications in one place.
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A central system for JupyterLab, RStudio, and VSCode environments.
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A common set of tools for intuitive sharing of R and Python code.
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Collaborative notebooks for single-cell, spatial, image viewing, and more.
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Flexible control over CPUs, memory, and GPUs for different projects and users.
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Cloud billing features to monitor spending and set daily limits.
What is bring-your-own-compute?
Bring-your-own-compute is a new Latch architecture that allows you to:
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Connect your AWS environment
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Leverage your existing compute
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Specify geographic regions
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Use your cloud credits
All without data or compute leaving your servers.
How does it work?
High-level architecture
Bring-your-own-compute is part of a new latch architecture, which operates with a control plane and compute plane.
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The control plane includes services that Latch manages in your account.
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The compute plane is where your data is processed. There are two types of compute:
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Latch Managed compute, which runs in your Latch account.
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Bring-your-own compute, which runs in your AWS account.
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Each Latch workspace has a storage bucket, which is in your AWS account.
Motivation and roadmap
We built this to deliver several benefits to our customers:
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Ensure that data never leaves your cloud tenancy.
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Allow you to use existing cloud provider credits.
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Reduce network latency for users geographically far from us-west-2
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Increase GPU availability by allowing compute hosts from other AWS regions
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Improve cost efficiency by exposing a more diverse set of compute options
Based on interest, we’ll plan to continue supporting bring-your-own compute for the entire platform, including workflows, nextflow, and plots. Long-term, we’ll move towards support for GCP, Azure, and more compute providers.
How do I get started?
To get started, please comment or send a note to kyle@latch.bio and we’ll send you instructions. Thanks for reading.
