AWS setup at Harvard

Knowledge base

Overview: How AWS works
IAM identity
AWS APIs
AWS services and resources
Glossary

Operational tutorials

Quickstart overview
- High-level workflow
- Assumptions
AWS utilities
AWS account setup
Build a custom Amazon Machine Image
- Build AMI from AWS Console
- Build AMI with ParallelCluster based on an existing AMI
  - Prerequisites
  - Build process
Create an Amazon S3 Bucket
Upload Data to an Amazon S3 Bucket
Create an FSx file system
Data transfer between FSx and S3 bucket
- Launch an EC2 instance for data transfer
- Data repository association (DRA)
Loading Data from S3 to FSx and Using S3 as Backup
Create a ParallelCluster via AWS CLI
Teardown and cleanup
- EC2 instances
- ParallelCluster

Resources

Templates
- Template: AMI build configuration (ami-build.yaml)
  - Example template
  - Optional: Custom build steps
- Template: Cluster configuration (pcluster-create.yml)
Cost considerations: S3 vs FSx for Lustre vs compute
Reference links

AWS setup at Harvard

Glossary
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Glossary

IAM: Identity and Access Management
AMI: Amazon Machine Image
EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud
FSx: Managed high-performance file system service
S3: Simple Storage Service

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