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Guidance for Enabling Secure Collaboration on AWS

Overview

This Guidance helps you enable trusted communication for intellectual property (IP) design and data exchange in a secure environment. It includes a high-level architecture for well-optimized design environments to facilitate collaboration with third-party companies. Third-party companies may include foundries, independent software vendors (ISVs), and outsourced design services.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

Secure collaboration chambers allow the first-party company to work with numerous third-party companies so work can be done in parallel to achieve a faster time to market.

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Collaboration on AWS allows customers to isolate design environments and separate third-party users. For example, if there is problem with an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool, a separate collaboration chamber is used to isolate access to only the data that is required to troubleshoot the problem with the EDA tool.

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Customers can launch multiple design environments for reliability and scalability. You can provide multiple teams with secure access to the data required for the entire design workflow, and resources in the environment will scale accordingly.

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Many hi-tech, electronics, and semiconductor customers have close relationships with third-party design companies and IP providers. The services in this architecture were selected to ensure collaboration across the entire workflow.  

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As you collaborate across multiple IP providers and third-party designers, you only have to launch the VPCs (or collaboration chambers) that are required to complete the design of the integrated circuit. Launching the minimum resources required can help you save on costs.

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This architecture is scalable, allowing you to launch the exact number of collaboration chambers required to collaborate with third-party companies. This helps you avoid unused infrastructure and unnecessary resources. 

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Disclaimer

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References to third-party services or organizations in this Guidance do not imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation between Amazon or AWS and the third party. Guidance from AWS is a technical starting point, and you can customize your integration with third-party services when you deploy the architecture.