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Nathan Beyer

November 28, 2016

AWS Infrastructure for a Global

Population Health Platform,

Cerner’s HealtheIntent

HLC302

What to Expect from the Session

• Overview of Population Health Management and Cerner

HealtheIntent

• The challenge that led us to AWS

• Our use of AWS features to overcome that challenge

Population Health Management

HealtheIntent Platform

HealtheIntent Components

The Challenge

Provide a better disaster recovery solution that …

• Doesn’t require twice the compute assets and cost

• Continues to meet HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST 800-53 and

other controls

AWS

An Approach to Disaster Recovery On Demand

Replicated

Raw

Replicated

Intermediates

Raw

Intermediates

On-premises

Data Replication

Replicated

Raw

Encrypted

Raw

History

Encrypted

Raw

HistoryAWS

Snowball

Device

Raw

HistoryRaw

Ongoing

Replication

Component Layout and Networking

Production

Firewall ADFS STS

RSA

Production

Management

Bastion

Rundeck

Processing & Data

Applications & Services

Load Balancers

GitHubNexus

AWS IAM

Virtual Private Gateways

Orchestration Components

AWS CloudFormation

Chef Client

Rundeck

Chef Server

GitHub

(internal)

Amazon RDSAmazon EC2

Nexus

Orchestration Flow

Rundeck

OozieHDFS

HBase

MapReduce/YARN

Hadoop

Operational Services

Amazon S3

Application Services

Applications

Vertica

CloudFormation

Where are we now?

• 2 clients live and ready for on-demand recovery

• 12 hour recovery time, based on tests

• Enabling additional client for on-demand recovery

• Working on decreasing recovery time and partial

recovery

• Schedule drills, increased automation

Operational Data Warehouse

On-premises

Component

On-premises

Component

ODW

Bucket (S3)

Load

Function

(AWS

Lambda)

ODW

(Amazon

Redshift)

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