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    Architecture Layers

    Harvard University’s vision for enterprise architecture is to articulate and drive to common solutions, standards, and opportunities for alignment in order to reduce IT complexity and cost across the University and enable local innovation.

    Infrastructure

    Infrastructure advisories and policies description page

    Data Trust Model

     
     
     
     
    Advisory
    A set of documents that define a Trust Model, describe what is currently in place, and a plan to move toward reducing complexity and the need for data sources to provision applications individually.

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    IT Security Policies ↳

    Standard
    These Information Security Requirements apply to everyone at Harvard. They provide additional detail on how to be compliant with Policy and should be used as a normal part of daily life at Harvard in order to keep both Harvard confidential data and your own personal information secure.

    Cloud Resource Tagging

     
     
     
     
    Standard
    This document describes the required metadata tags for Cloud Resources (e.g. instances, volumes, snapshots, managed databases, load balancers, distributed caching services) so that resources can be effectively leveraged across stakeholders.

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    Cloud Asset Naming Conventions

     
     
     
     
    Standard
    This document presents a consolidated reference for consistent naming of Cloud Resources across all IT Organizations, which benefits the University in cost savings, automation and reduction of ambiguity.

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    How Many VPCs?

    Advisory
    This analysis of the architecture guidance on the number of production VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds) for services deployed in AWS examines four dimensions: Security, Cost, Operations, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
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    Website Usability ↳

    Advisory
    Harvard Web Publishing's Ten Principles for an Easy-to-Navigate Website provides a framework for improving website usability.

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