Warning

This documentation is for a pilot service. It is likely incomplete or may be inaccurate as the service is developed.

Although RCC is currently free-at-point-of-use projects are assigned budgets, therefore the documentation here will explain ways in which to make optimal use of the services provided.

Glossary

There are terms used throughout this documentation that might not be familiar to you or share definitions with other terms, some of which are specific to RCC. You should find information on most of them here.

Instance

The term AWS uses for it’s EC2 based virtual machines. You may see the terms ‘instance’, ‘vm’ and ‘machine’ throughout the documentation, these are usually referring to the same thing.

Package

A Ronin term relating to an Amazon Machine Image or AMI, these are instances that have been packaged up for re-use elsewhere. The term package and AMI may be used interchangeably in this documentation.

RCC

Abbreviation of Research Cloud Computing, a term adopted by The University of Sheffield to reference the service as a whole.

DSH

Abbreviation of Data Safe Haven, in reference to the ISO 27001 accredited research platform.

Bucket

A bucket is the container for objects stored in AWS’s S3 storage. This is often referred to as “Object Storage”.

EBS

The acronym used by AWS for their Elastic Block Storage solution. In RCC these show up as the additional drive storage added to your instances.