2019 ESIP Winter Meeting

Session Abstract:
This session will cover and invite discussions on challenges in implementing and managing a Cloud environment. Topics will include costs, collaboration, data stewardship, usability, and governance in Cloud environment.

Presentations:
NASA Archives and Data Stewardship in the Cloud – Lauren Frederick, Cumulus Scrum Master, NASA EED-2

Increasing Security through a Collaborative Model, Kevin Mentzer, Sr DevOps Engineer, Element84

Cloud costing and governance, Dede Dascalu, CEO Stratus Solutions

Panel
· Dan Pilone, Chief Technologist EED-2
· Dede Dascalu, CEO Stratus Solutions
· Jeff de La Beaujardiere, PhD, Director, NCAR/CISL Information Systems Division

Session Takeaways (post-meeting)
1) New open-source systems building on Amazon Web Services (leveraging AWS Lambda) allow huge earth-science datasets to be stored in the cloud. Example: NASA Cumulus software to support EOSDIS data archive.
2) Considering how organizations control access to cloud components is crucial for building a productive data-management workflow with AWS, while protecting from errors and data loss.
3) Cloud environments can create lots of complexity in governance, data security, and financial management, but also create an easier environment for managing and using petabyte-scale data archives across the Earth Sciences.