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Additional Cloud Accelerated Services

As explained, in addition to the four services offered via the Cloud-Accelerated portal, more services can be provided outside of the portal. A more detailed overview of these services is given below.

Amazon SageMaker#

Amazon SageMaker is a service which allows you to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows. It offers support for the leading ML frameworks, toolkits, and programming languages, including: Jupyter, TensorFlow, PyTorch, mxnet, Hugging Face, Python, RStudio, etc. The access to SageMaker is made possible in the EC Data Platform by utilizing the federated login to access the AWS Management . Accessing SageMaker and SageMaker Studio via this workflow is an easy and secure way that doesn’t require a WorkSpace or Bastion Host.

Amazon WorkSpaces#

Amazon Workspaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that allows you to access resources from any supported device. The users of the Data Science Lab can choose to access the data visualization tools and data query & processing tools via a managed and secure virtual desktop solution implemented by the EC Data Platform. The Amazon WorkSpaces offered by the Data Science Lab are provided with a standard set of data science tools. Access to Amazon WorkSpaces is made possible by connecting via a local desktop client to Amazon WorkSpaces.

Amazon Athena#

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. Access to Amazon Athena will leverage programmatic access, which requires AWS Credentials. This setup is presented under section Accessing additional services - Initializing AWS Credentials.

Amazon EFS#

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a serverless, fully elastic file storage, i.e., it automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files with no need for management or provisioning. Access to an Amazon EFS Volumes is performed over Amazon EC2, to which the file storage is attached. Data is stored on Amazon EFS automatically when working on RStudio or Jupyter.

Amazon EBS#

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Hence, as can be expected, access to Amazon EBS is only available over Amazon EC2.

Amazon QuickSight#

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. The access to Amazon Quicksight is possible through the AWS Console:

  1. Go to dedicated web application (the URL will look similar to https://eu-west-1.signin.aws.amazon.com). Note that if you are already using an AWS account, please visit the given URL via an incognito browser or sign out of AWS or clear your cookies.
  2. Enter “ecdataplatform-quicksight” as QuickSight account name.
  3. Enter your EC Data Platform credentials.

Amazon DocumentDB#

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. The access to an Amazon Document DB is presented under section Accessing additional services - Initializing AWS Credentials.

Amazon DynamoDB#

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. The access of an Amazon Dynamo DB will leverage programmatic access, which requires AWS Credentials. This setup is presented under section Accessing additional services - Initializing AWS Credentials.

OpenSearch#

OpenSearch is a distributed, community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed, 100% open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. Access to OpenSearch is through Kibana, which is the web interface that allows the user to interact with OpenSearch. Users can access the Kibana interface by using the following format address:

*https://[DNS of the OpenSearch Domain]/_plugin/kibana*

Both the OpenSearch and Kibana endpoints are exposed on port 443 (https).