AARNet is decommissioning CloudStor at the end of 2023.
With CloudStor’s underlying software and platform architecture reaching end of life and requiring a significant investment to rebuild, as well as large, commercial vendors now offering equivalent cloud services, we’ve made the decision to decommission CloudStor. AARNet will continue to focus resources on providing high quality solutions that meet the specialised future needs of the research and education sector.
To help you transition to alternative services, throughout 2023 we’ll be making progressive changes to CloudStor and its associated services.
Note: this timeline does not apply to institutions with a CloudStor Enterprise Agreement.
Here’s a brief summary of the timeline:
3 April 2023
We’ll TURN OFF:
- Creating new users and group drives in CloudStor.
- Bulk downloads from CloudStor accessed through a web browser. You will still be able to download individual files through a web browser, and perform bulk downloads using the CloudStor desktop app or a command line interface tool, such as Rclone.
- The CloudStor Rocket large dataset upload tool.
We’ll MODIFY:
- FileSender to work as a standalone service.
- Non-expiry FileSender vouchers to expire in a maximum of 40 days. All issued non-expiry vouchers will be set to expire on 13 May 2023.
- SWAN notebook lifespan – instead of keeping idle notebooks open for 5 days, we’ll shut them down after 48 hours.
We’ll ADD:
- Read-only mode in CloudStor. Read-only ensures that data doesn’t change before download or migration from CloudStor drives is finished. Email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au to activate read-only mode for a drive or institution.
What you need to do by this date
- If you have already downloaded your data or no longer require your CloudStor user account, email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au to have your account locked and queued for removal
1 July 2023
We’ll ADD:
- Drive migration tool.
- Drive archive function.
- Account lock and removal function.
What you need to do by this date
- Email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au if you want to activate read-only mode for a drive or institution. You MUST activate Read-only mode if you want to use the new migration, archive, account lock and removal functions. Read-only ensures that data doesn't change before download or migration from CloudStor drives is finished.
- Email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au if you require assistance with downloading data from a drive larger than 1 TB or files larger than 100 GB.
- If you have already downloaded your data or no longer require your CloudStor user account, email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au to have your account locked and queued for removal.
15 December 2023
We’ll:
- Start deleting data from CloudStor drives and removing CloudStor accounts.
What you need to do by this date
- Download your user data from CloudStor.
- Update all external links pointing to files previously available in CloudStor.
- Email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au if you require assistance with downloading data from a drive larger than 1 TB or files larger than 100 GB.
If you have already downloaded your data or no longer require your CloudStor user account, email cloudstor@aarnet.edu.au to have your account locked and queued for removal.
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