Re: [thredds] THREDDS Data Server serving from Amazon S3

> On Jul 14, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Signell, Richard <rsignell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> I discovered some info here on OPeNDAP and S3 from the hyrax boyz, in
> case of interest:
> http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/OPULS:_NOAA_S3_Data_Access

And here’s a short paper we wrote on it: 

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James

PS. after the work on S3 we also expanded the code to use Glacier - a whole 
different kettle of fish.

> 
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Robert Casey <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jeff-
>> 
>> Of note, Amazon Glacier is meant for infrequently needed data, so a call-up
>> for data from that source will require something on the order of a 5 hour
>> wait to retrieve to S3.  I think they are developing a near-line storage
>> solution that is a bit more expensive to compete with Google's new near-line
>> storage, which provides retrieval times on the order of seconds.
>> 
>> -Rob
>> 
>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Jeff McWhirter <jeff.mcwhirter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On this note -
>> What I really want is a file system that can transparently manage  data
>> between primary (SSD), secondary (S3) and tertiary (Amazon Glacier)  stores.
>> Actively used data would migrate into primary storage. Old archived data
>> moves off into cheaper tertiary storage. I've thought of implementing this
>> at the application level in RAMADDA but a file system based approach would
>> be much smarter.
>> 
>> How do the archive folks on this list manage these kinds of storage
>> environments?
>> 
>> -Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:44 AM, John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi David:
>>> 
>>> At the bottom of the TDM, we rely on RandomAccessFile. Do you know if S3
>>> supports that abstraction (essentially posix file semantics, eg seek(),
>>> read()) ? My guess is that S3 only allows complete file transfers (?)
>>> 
>>> Would be worth investigating if anyone has implemented a java
>>> FileSystemProvider for S3.
>>> 
>>> Will have a closer look when i get time.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:59 PM, David Nahodil <David.Nahodil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> We are looking at moving our THREDDS Data Server to Amazon EC2 instances
>>>> with the data hosted on S3. I'm just wondering if anyone has tried using 
>>>> TDS
>>>> with data hosted on S3?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I had a quick back-and-forth with Sean at Unidata (see below) about this.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Unfortunately, I do not know of anyone who has done this, although we
>>>>>> have had at lease one other person ask. From what I understand, there is 
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> way to mount an S3 storage as a virtual file system, in which case I 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> *think* that the TDS would work as it normally does (depending on the 
>>>>>> kind
>>>>>> of data you have).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> We have considered mounting the S3 storage as a filesystem and running
>>>>> it like that. However, our feeling was that the tools were not really
>>>>> production ready and that we're really misrepresenting S3 by pretending it
>>>>> is a file system. So this is why we're investigating if anyone has used 
>>>>> TDS
>>>>> with the S3 API directly.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> What kind of data do you have? Will your TDS also be in the cloud? Do
>>>>>> you plan on serving the data inside of amazon to other EC2 instances, or 
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> you plan on crossing the cloud/commodity web boundary with the data, in
>>>>>> which case that could get very expensive quite quickly?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> We have about 2 terabytes of marine and climate data that we are
>>>>> currently serving from our existing infrastructure. The plan is to move 
>>>>> the
>>>>> infrastructure to Amazon Web Services so TDS would be hosted on EC2 
>>>>> machines
>>>>> and the data on S3. We're hoping this setup should work okay, but we might
>>>>> still have a hurdle or two to come. :)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> We have someone here who once wrote a plugin/adapter for TDS to work
>>>>> with an obscure filesystem that our data used to be stored on. So we have 
>>>>> a
>>>>> little experience in what might be involved in what might be involved for
>>>>> doing the same with S3. We just wanted to make sure that if anyone had 
>>>>> done
>>>>> some work already that we made use of that.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> We very, very recently (as in a day ago) got some Amazon resources to
>>>>>> play around on, but we won't have a chance to kick those tires until 
>>>>>> after
>>>>>> our training workshops at the end of the month.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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