Benefits of building architecture on AWS for the academic sector.

1. Emind’s Architecture for
Enterprise & AWS Integration
Lahav Savir, Architect & CEO
Emind - Your Cloud Experts

2. Reduce wait time in queues.
Access to endless computation resources.
Easy scale-out of existing computational pipelines.
Collaboration of projects with external research institutions.
Enable access to the rich variety of cloud services.
Combined Self & Managed Service.
Reduce CAPEX.
Goals

3. Global References
Harvard University - http://huit.harvard.edu/services/harvard-
cloud-services
University of Chicago - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-
studies/university-of-chicago/
University of New York -
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/new-york-
university/

4. Scope
Advanced Computing
Data Platforms
HPC Clusters
Web Hosting

5. Integrations
Billing and Accounting
Networking
Security
Compliance
Identity
Applications stack
Monitoring
Usage analytics
Automation

6. Managed Services Self Service

7. Billing & Accounting
Allow “Pre-Paid / Budget” payment
Controlled budget
Pay per use
Automated alerts and actions
Integration of the AWS billing with the organization’s internal
billing
Seamless ordering / allocating budget

8. Identity
Remote Resources:
AWS Console
AWS API
AWS Network
EC2 Instances
SSO (Single-Sign-On)
integration with
Organization’s Idp
Authentication
Role Inheritance

9. Network & Connectivity
Seamless experience - ONE Network
Extend organization’s network to AWS
as an integrated data center
Full routable network
Redundant and Scale
Direct-Connect
Highly Available VPN

10. Security
Unified Policy Enforcement
Controlled network
Monitored in/out traffic
Network IPS
Role based resource access
Host Protection
Vulnerability Scanning
Host based IDS and FIM
Events Correlation and
Alerting
Comprehensive Audit

11. Application Stack
Seamless access to
organization’s tools library
Shared scripts and modules
Shared data sets
Predefined instances
Integrated tools
Integrated authentication
http://star.mit.edu/cluster/

12. Monitoring
Central Monitoring
Platform
Dynamic Provisioning
Predefined Templates
Integrated Data Sources
Compute instances
AWS resources metrics

13. Usage Reports and Analytics
Analyse HPC resources
consumption
Periodically collect
metrics
Group by Cluster
Report Hours vs. Jobs

14. Automation
Zero touch deployment
CloudFormation
AWS Service Catalog
Auto Provisioning
Just-in-time setup

15. Thank you.
lahavs@emind.co
@lahavsavir