Nextnet: AI SaaS Platform for Healthcare and Life Sciences with AWS CDK
Challenge
Nextnet is a Silicon Valley-based AI Enterprise software company serving the Life sciences and healthcare industry as its first target market.
They aim to:
- Become the world's most trusted AI knowledge platform for all aspects of human health and well-being.
- Provide AI-powered chat and search capabilities, along with a fully interactive, graph-based link analysis grounded in actual scientific evidence.
- Instant results despite petabytes of ingested structured, semi-structured and unstructured multimodal data.
- Provide scientists not only with a conversation interface but also an immersive exploration tool in the form of a densely interconnected knowledge graph, as well as the ability to switch between them seamlessly.
- Handle user authentication, authorisation and a complex matrix of feature-access logic.
- Accommodate variable traffic and usage patterns.
- Maintain segregated identical environments for rapid iteration, scientific validation by a board of selected industry key opinion leaders, and a guarantee of resilient, fault-tolerant production workloads.
- Ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance in preparation for upcoming US and European compliance scrutiny.
Nextnet is a Silicon Valley-based AI Enterprise software company serving the Life sciences and healthcare industry as its first target market.
They aim to:
- Become the world's most trusted AI knowledge platform for all aspects of human health and well-being.
- Provide AI-powered chat and search capabilities, along with a fully interactive, graph-based link analysis grounded in actual scientific evidence.
- Instant results despite petabytes of ingested structured, semi-structured and unstructured multimodal data.
- Provide scientists not only with a conversation interface but also an immersive exploration tool in the form of a densely interconnected knowledge graph, as well as the ability to switch between them seamlessly.
- Handle user authentication, authorisation and a complex matrix of feature-access logic.
- Accommodate variable traffic and usage patterns.
- Maintain segregated identical environments for rapid iteration, scientific validation by a board of selected industry key opinion leaders, and a guarantee of resilient, fault-tolerant production workloads.
- Ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance in preparation for upcoming US and European compliance scrutiny.
Solution
The solution leverages AWS managed services stacks, orchestrated entirely through AWS CDK, eliminating the need for manual infrastructure provisioning and ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments that are also validated against AWS's Well-Architected principles at build time.
Start with CDK: Begin infrastructure projects with AWS CDK from day one
Embrace Managed Services: Prefer AWS managed services over self-managed alternatives
Implement Multi-Environment Strategy: Plan for development, staging, and production from the beginning
Invest in Monitoring: Implement comprehensive observability early in the project
Plan for AI Integration: Consider AI/ML capabilities as first-class citizens in your architecture
The solution leverages AWS managed services stacks, orchestrated entirely through AWS CDK, eliminating the need for manual infrastructure provisioning and ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments that are also validated against AWS's Well-Architected principles at build time.
Start with CDK: Begin infrastructure projects with AWS CDK from day one
Embrace Managed Services: Prefer AWS managed services over self-managed alternatives
Implement Multi-Environment Strategy: Plan for development, staging, and production from the beginning
Invest in Monitoring: Implement comprehensive observability early in the project
Plan for AI Integration: Consider AI/ML capabilities as first-class citizens in your architecture
Results
Key Results:
- Serverless architecture with a significantly reduced infrastructure management overhead.
- Multi-environment deployment (development, staging, production) with consistent configurations and resources isolation/sharing.
- AI-powered features using AWS Bedrock with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities.
- Cross-account security model with automated DNS delegation for automated domain and subdomain management.
- Complete infrastructure reproducibility by simply pressing the "Deploy" button.
- Modern and secure passwordless authentication flow, powered by AWS Cognito and AWS Amplify Gen 2 at its core.
Key Results:
- Serverless architecture with a significantly reduced infrastructure management overhead.
- Multi-environment deployment (development, staging, production) with consistent configurations and resources isolation/sharing.
- AI-powered features using AWS Bedrock with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities.
- Cross-account security model with automated DNS delegation for automated domain and subdomain management.
- Complete infrastructure reproducibility by simply pressing the "Deploy" button.
- Modern and secure passwordless authentication flow, powered by AWS Cognito and AWS Amplify Gen 2 at its core.