Storage Options

Users currently have the following storage options:

Home Directory

Appears as / in the file browser; full path is /home/<username>. This is regular file-system storage. It is private to your user, but is limited in terms of space (10GB), so use this sparingly. It is persistent across sessions, but we recommend making sure all important files are backed up.

EFS

Appears as shared in the file browser (relative to the home directory); full path is /home/<username>/shared. The shared storage is split up based on the user groups you are apart of. I recommend using the user directory. the shared storage is regular file-system storage. I strongly recommended that you create user and/or sub-project-specific subdirectories here to keep things organized. This is technically unlimited, but is on a pay-for-what-you-use model, so please use responsibly. It is more expensive and, usually, somewhat less performant than S3.

S3 buckets

There are two s3 buckets that are part of the BioSCape SMCE

• bioscape-data

  This is where the BioSCape data lives. This bucket is read only.

• bioscape-smce-user-bucket

  This is an S3 bucket set up for users to use as another storage option. It is a good place for storing things like larger data products. s3 buckets do not behave like a regular file system and are not designed for constant reads and writes.