Prepare – Discovery and assessment - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Prepare current SAS Grid workload assessmentPrepare SAS security assessmentPrepare SAS Grid migration assessmentSet up a new AWS environment (for new AWS users only)

Prepare – Discovery and assessment

Prepare current SAS Grid workload assessment

  • Goal: Capture the infrastructure requirements for SAS Grid on AWS.

  • Tasks:

    • Gather RHEL performance information by running the gather_info.sh script on every system in the SAS infrastructure.

    • Test throughput for your SAS file systems by running the rhel_iotest.sh script.

    • Use the nmon command to monitor the performance of SAS on a Linux system.

      • Run nmon for several days for an average to above-average workload.

      • Collect data every 5 minutes for 24 hours.

    • Return all logs and files to SAS for analysis.

    • Analyze current utilization patterns and present infrastructure estimate in AWS.

  • Skills/roles: SAS consultant, SAS technical support, SAS Performance Lab

Prepare SAS security assessment

  • Goal: Gather requirements to create SAS security design documentation.

  • Tasks:

    • Gather requirements:

      • Define functional security requirements for the SAS environment.

      • Determine whether compliance to an external standard is required.

      • Define user personas such as administrators, analysts, and report viewers.

      • Define organizational hierarchy, and determine how content will be organized and secured.

    • Document SAS security design, including:

      • Metadata authorization model, which defines groups, roles, folders, server metadata, and access control templates.

      • File system security design, which identifies high-level, key SAS directories; the location, ownership, and permissions of those directories; and special files in those directories.

      • SAS security design specification document.

  • Skills/roles: SAS consultant

Prepare SAS Grid migration assessment

Set up a new AWS environment (for new AWS users only)

  • Goal: If you’re a SAS customer who is new to AWS, you can use AWS Control Tower to set up a base environment. To migrate SAS Grid to AWS, you must add a VPC to your existing environment at a minimum.

  • Tasks:

    • Use AWS Control Tower to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment that is based on security, compliance, and other AWS best practices. You could work within a single account. However, as your environment grows, it will be easier to manage it through a multi-account infrastructure.

    • When the new AWS environment is set up, configure authentication:

  • Skills/roles: AWS architect