Amazon Lightsail: Amazon are going after the low-end server market with a consolidated product. Primarily targetted at users of other VPS hosting services like Dreamcloud. Not useful for us yet. We'll keep an eye out.
AWS Research Cloud Program: Useful. Am signing up. There's a bundle of goodies, but in particular free network traffic for downloads to JISC (so all UK universities), and invoiced billing instead of credit card.
Refinery Groups: Anyone can create a group, they are the owner and can then add members to that group. The owner of a dataset can choose to share that dataset with specific groups.
There is currently no way to separate sharing of the descriptor from the bulk data. If you can see the descriptor then you can also download the bulk data if there is any. This has been mentioned before in Refinery meetings. We can collaborate with the refinery team to make it so.
Refinery Galaxy. Ilya has some excellent notes, and I'll be working on Galaxy. I might be able to to just "steal" Ilya's amazon image; we're not sure yet.
Amazon S3 storage. this is on the radar for refinery and I'm keen to do it, assuming Nils is okay with that, which he should be. Coordinating with ilya on that.
Iceberg. Extended the current hidelab node for another 9 months, then we'll switch to the new SHArc.
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