Spinup provides Easy and Fast access to infrastructure resources
What are infrastructure resources?
Servers, databases, storage shares, containers, domain names, etc.
Why use Spinup?
Time savings, minutes to provision
Ease of use, there is no need to learn complex cloud platform specific processes, procedures and terminology.
Resources are behind Yale’s enterprise firewall offering protection from malicious actors
Access to Yale services such as mail, Active Directory and Storage@Yale.
Operating system patches are automatically and regularly applied.
Spinup servers are assigned Yale IP addresses and registered with Yale’s Domain Name Service (DNS).
Temporary environments for developing and testing
14 days of Backups
You have full privilege
Pay for what you use
Spinup and security
Pre approved for moderate and high risk data
Shared responsibility model with clear definitions on what security measures are built in and what is required by the user
Built in security calculator to help determine data risk level and data type
Spinup provides security enhancements such as
Multi-Factor Authentication
Disk encryption
Industry standard security hardened Operating Systems
Centralized logging
Data type tagging
Regular compliance/attestation agreements
What’s next?
S3 Static Website Generator
On demand Snapshot Management
Custom Image Marketplace
On demand Usage/Cost Reporting
More info on the Spinup service, https://it.yale.edu search for Spinup
Check out our public webpage, https://spinup.yalepages.org
Contact us, Email spinup@yale.edu, Slack https://yale.slack.com and join channel #spinup