AWS

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Welcome to the Baccarelli Lab Amazon Web Services (AWS) Page

Our AWS Set-Up


Elastic Compute Cloud

EC2 is a scalable, high-performance cloud computing service. EC2’s customized instances provide capacity for faster analysis of large genomic datasets. To easiliy spin up a new instance, a template Amazon Machine Image is developed for lab members to launch and immediately access RStudio and their desired libraries. For more details, and to see how to launch your own unique instance, see the EC2 User Guide for Lab Members.


Identity and Access Management

IAM provides lab members with highly configurable AWS service APIs to access resources such as RStudio from an EC2 Instance. IAM is also used to provide collaborators with temporary access to upload and download from S3 buckets for data transfer purposes.


Simple Storage Service

S3 is a secure, object-based storage service. S3 provides safe back-up of data, and provides data on-demand through configuraton with EC2 instances.


Elastic Block Store

EBS provides block storage volumes for EC2 instances. Volumes can be restored from Snapshots, also known as copies of previously configured volumes, and attached to new instances to enable faster environment configuration.


CloudBerry

CloudBerry provides secure, highly configurable links for the encrypted transfer of sensitive files. This is particularly useful for the fast, safe sharing of data with our collaborators.

AWS Resources

EC2 Introduction for the Baccarelli Lab

EC2 FAQs for the Baccarelli Lab

AWS Immersion Day Presentation

AWS Request Forms For Lab Members

Baccarelli Lab Members - Request an EC2 Instance

Baccarelli Lab Members - Provide Collaborator with Data Transfer Request Instructions


Data Security and Compliance - Columbia University has signed a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Amazon Web Service (AWS) in which the lab is appropriately enrolled.