Research and Engineering Studio on AWS provides the following features:
- Web-based user interface
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RES provides a web-based portal that administrators, researchers, and engineers can use to access and manage their research and engineering workspaces. Scientists and engineers do not need to have an AWS account or cloud expertise to use RES.
- Project-based configuration
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Use projects to define access permissions, allocate resources, and manage budgets for a set of tasks or activities. Assign specific software stacks (operating systems and approved applications) and storage resources to a project for consistency and compliance. Monitor and manage spending on a per-project basis.
- Collaboration tools
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Scientists and engineers can invite other members of their project to collaborate with them, setting the permissions levels they want those colleagues to have. Those individuals can sign in to RES to connect to those desktops.
- Integration with existing identity management infrastructure
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Integrate with your existing identity management and directory services infrastructure to enable connection to the RES portal with a user's existing corporate identity and assign permissions to projects using existing user and group memberships.
- Persistent storage and access to shared data
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To provide users access to shared data across virtual desktop sessions, connect to your existing file systems within RES. Supported storage services include Amazon Elastic File System for Linux desktops and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for Windows and Linux desktops.
- Monitoring and reporting
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Use the analytics dashboard to monitor resource usage for instance types, software stacks, and operating system types. The dashboard also provides a breakdown of resource usage by projects for reporting.
- Budget and cost management
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Link AWS Budgets to your RES projects to monitor costs for each project. If you exceed your budget, you can limit the launch of VDI sessions.
