Update the product - Research and Engineering Studio
Major version updatesMinor version updates

Update the product

Research and Engineering Studio (RES) has two methods of updating the product which depend on if the version update is major or minor.

RES uses a date-based versioning scheme. A major release uses the year and month, and a minor release adds a sequence number when necessary. For example, version 2024.01 was released in January 2024 as a major release; version 2024.01.01 was a minor release update of that version.

Major version updates

Research and Engineering Studio uses snapshots to support migration from a previous RES environment to the latest without losing your environment settings. You can also use this process to test and verify updates to your environment before onboarding users.

To update your environment with the latest version of RES:

  1. Create a snapshot of your current environment. See Create a snapshot.

  2. Redeploy RES with the new version. See Step 1: Launch the product.

  3. Apply the snapshot to your updated environment. See Apply a snapshot.

  4. Verify all data migrated successfully to the new environment.

Minor version updates

For minor version updates to RES, a new install is not required. You can update the existing RES stack by updating its AWS CloudFormation template. Check the version of your current RES environment in AWS CloudFormation before deploying the update. You can find the version number at the beginning of the template.

For example: "Description": "RES_2024.1"

To make a minor version update:

  1. Download the latest AWS CloudFormation template in Step 1: Launch the product.

  2. Open the AWS CloudFormation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.

  3. From Stacks, find and select the primary stack. It should appear as <stack-name>.

  4. Choose Update.

  5. Choose Replace current template.

  6. For Template source, choose Upload a template file.

  7. Choose Choose file and upload the template you downloaded.

  8. On Specify stack details, choose Next. You do not need to update the parameters.

  9. On Configure stack options, choose Next.

  10. On Review <stack-name>, choose Submit.