Driving Frictionless Scientific Research on AWS Cloud with Research Gateway

Research Gateway is a self-service Cloud portal solution allowing researchers to focus on scientific outcomes and making the process of accessing infrastructure, applications and data in a frictionless manner. The solution can be rapidly deployed to meet specific requirements of universities and research institutions to get started using existing Cloud accounts. Universities and Research Institutions can adopt this solution with minimal upfront investments and user training built on Open Source platforms with enterprise support options. The solution acts as a bridge providing seamless & secure interaction for personas, access to programs & budgets with ability to consume and manage lifecycle of research related computational and data resources. The portal provides a rich list of features tailor made for the research community.

• Setting up projects, service catalogs, budgets and researchers.
• Publish & maintain service catalogs of AWS services.
• View Study data from private and public sources and use that for building analytics models leveraging AI/ML tools.
• Easy launch and intelligent interaction with AWS services.
• Budget tracking & cost optimization of launched AWS services.
• Deployment and provisioning of launched AWS services within a well-architected and secure AWS environment.

For any university or research institution looking for an easy cloud based solution to move in-house scientific research process to a mature platform Research Gateway is a great fit. The core solution is offered in two flexible models - Hosted Option (SAAS) or customer self-managed deployment (in their AWS Instance). The solution is built on an Open Source platform with enterprise support options available that help avoid proprietary solution lock-in. Customers looking for standard features usually prefer the Hosted Option. Others requiring customization and integration with existing systems, unique security and data privacy needs prefer a self-managed option.