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
- 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, https://it.yale.edu search for Spinup
Contact us, Email spinup@yale.edu, Slack https://yale.slack.com and join channel #spinup