How do interactive Cloud Computing sessions work on BDC Powered by Seven Bridges?
Nathalie Volkheimer
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16 days ago
Each Data Studio session takes place in its own cloud instance, and there is no way for two users to connect to the same cloud instance at the same time. This is partly a security consideration and partly a billing consideration. There are no plans at this time to implement real-time shared notebooks, but we will escalate this feature request to our engineering team.
Because each Data Studio session takes place in its own cloud instance, and for security and networking reasons, the /sbgenomics/project-files/ is a temporary copy of your project's files, rather than being a live mount to the project files. Therefore it is 'read only' in order to prevent de-syncing the Project Files from the Data Studio session's project files.
The Data Studio directory structure is explained at greater length in the above linked videos and in this documentation About Data Studio. /sbgenomics/output-files/ is a staging area to enable writing files back out to your project. Files written to output-files/ can be accessed after a Data Studio session is over from the project-files/ directory. The /sbgenomics/workspace/ directory, which is the home directory when you first start a Data Studio session, is the persistent storage for files within a Data Studio session.
The key feature these characteristics of Data Studio share is that they are the result of how Cloud Computing works on BDC in order to maintain a secure, FedRAMP Moderate environment, which is a regulatory requirement to permit the analysis of sensitive PHI/PII data. It helps me to think of the data and the analysis all being sent up to a Cloud instance, and then to think of the results and changes being brought back down to my Project space, though that's not really what's happening.
Nathalie Volkheimer
The key feature these characteristics of Data Studio share is that they are the result of how Cloud Computing works on BDC in order to maintain a secure, FedRAMP Moderate environment, which is a regulatory requirement to permit the analysis of sensitive PHI/PII data. It helps me to think of the data and the analysis all being sent up to a Cloud instance, and then to think of the results and changes being brought back down to my Project space, though that's not really what's happening.