IBM Spectrum Scale on the AWS Cloud

Spectrum Scale version 4.2.3-1

Create IAM user account which can satisfy all access to deploy IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS. Please follow https://developer.ibm.com/storage/2017/10/30/iam-user-deploy-ibm-spectrum-scale-aws/ link to create IAM user account and attach SpectrumScale policy.

Deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale into a new VPC (end-to-end deployment) builds a new VPC with public and private subnets, and then deploys IBM Spectrum Scale into that infrastructure.
Deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale into an existing VPC provisions IBM Spectrum Scale into your existing infrastructure.

Added Master template (Create VPC and Bastion Enviornment)
- Creates VPC using QuickStart Scaleable VPC template https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-aws-vpc
- Creates Bastion host enviornment using QuickStart template as dependency https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-linux-bastion
Workload Template
Added CloudWatch logs and alerts for Spectrum Scale server and compute nodes recovery.
Added Spectrum Scale SNS Topic

Sign up for an AWS account at http://aws.amazon.com, select a region, and create a key pair and one S3 bucket.
In the AWS CloudFormation console, launch one of the following templates from the S3 URL to build a new stack:
- ibm-spectrum-scale-master.template (to deploy and configure Spectrum Scale cluster into a new VPC)
- ibm-spectrum-scale.template (to deploy and configure spectrum scale cluster into your existing VPC)
For detailed deployment and configuration instructions, see the Quick Start deployment guide.

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