A couple things of interest for this project include (1) what other services at ICPSR we have put in the cloud and (2) what resources Steve Burling (our 70% man ....we call him that because 70% of his time is dedicated to the project....it isn't meant to imply that he is only 70% of a man ...I think) are using to build the applications and images for this project.
First, a link to Bryan's ICPSR Tech blog about the other ICPSR services running in the cloud. On-going experiences with these service will be useful in monitoring service performance primarily. Bryan will keep us informed about problems or triumphs so we can evaluate other sources of information that will inform what we do. Synergy is fantastic, don't you think?
Second, Steve reports that these are the specific resources he has been using to build our ACI (remember this is our fancy acronym for the customized analytic space we are creating for users) in the cloud. The primary source is Amazon's documentation on the AWS service. In particular from there, he has used the Getting Started Guide, the Developer Guide, and the Command Line Reference.
