An Intrusion on Cornell AWS Turf
By Paul Allen So, it’s finally happened. Earlier this week Cornell University had an intrusion into one of the 80+ AWS accounts that Cornell uses. With that kind of scale, it was only a ...
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The Cornell “Standard” AWS VPC 2.0
By Paul Allen In a previous post, I described the standard VPC configuration we use for Cornell AWS accounts requiring network connectivity back to the campus network. This post is to share minor updates ...
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Amazon AppStream 2.0 for Neuroscience Research
By Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd It will come as news to few of you that the pace of advancement in computer technology has exceeded all expectations. In 2013, 83.8% of American households owned at least one ...
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Redshift at Vet College
Data Vet College Style Using AWS Redshift, AWS Batch, NodeJS and Docker to accomplish data in the cloud Team Members: Craig Riecke, Daniel Sheehan and Scott Ross (sr523) In 2015, the Animal Health Diagnostic ...
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AWSCLI S3 Backup via AWS Direct Connect
By Ken Lassey, Cornell EMCS / IPP Problem AWSCLI tools default to using the Internet for its connection when reaching out to services like S3. This is due to the fact that S3 only ...
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Disaster Recovery in AWS
By Scott Ross In this post we are going to cover considerations a unit implementing AWS should be aware of when moving into the cloud. Developing a disaster recovery (DR) plan for the cloud ...
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Class Roster – Launching Scheduler in the Cloud
by Eric Grysko Introduction In Student Services IT, we develop applications that support the student experience. Class Roster, classes.cornell.edu, was launched in late 2014 after several months of development in coordination with the Office ...
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Using Docker Datacenter to launch load test
by Shawn Bower As we at Cornell move more of our workloads to the cloud an important step in this process is to run load test against our on premise infrastructure and the proposed ...
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Configure Jenkins to use Cornell Shibboleth Authentication
by Brett Haranin Introduction At RAIS, Jenkins has become integral to our development workflow. Developers use it throughout the day to view the output of CI build/test jobs and to deploy application changes. The ...
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Docker + Puppet = Win!
by Shawn Bower On many of our Cloudification projects we use a combination of Docker and Puppet to achieve Infrastructure as code. We use a Dockerfile to create the infrastructure; all the packages required ...
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