Running Carolina Cloud as a service, AI Infrastructure

Carolina Cloud Agency Implementation, Genomics & Quantitative Workload Delivery

Learn how to deliver genomics pipelines and quantitative analyses to research clients using Carolina Cloud's Nextflow executor and unmetered egress storage. This course covers instance provisioning, pipeline automation, cost modeling for client billing, and operational workflows that eliminate AWS egress surprises and reduce per-run infrastructure costs by 40%.

Open the decision record for Carolina Cloud

What does running Carolina Cloud for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Custom pricing, contact vendor
Time to first value
Not published
Payback
Not modeled
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is Carolina Cloud worth running as a client service?

Carolina Cloud offers a cost-effective compute solution for genomics workloads, but the evidence does not support a specific ROI timeline without client pricing and usage data.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Carolina Cloud API key
  • Nextflow pipeline scripts (e.g., nf-core/rnaseq)
  • CLI or REST API client
  • AWS CLI for S3-compatible storage
  • Monitoring tools for instance utilization

People and inputs

  • Dedicated AMD EPYC compute instances
  • S3-compatible object storage
  • NVMe scratch storage
  • Documentation and support access

Included with the course

7 working documents for delivering this service.

  • Carolina Cloud Instance Sizing Worksheet for Client Projectsworksheet
  • Nextflow Pipeline Deployment SOP (nf-ccloud Executor Setup)sop
  • Genomics Project Cost Model Template (Flat-Rate Billing)template
  • Client Egress Savings Calculator (vs. AWS HealthOmics)worksheet
  • Monthly Infrastructure Audit Checklist (Storage + Compute)checklist
  • API Integration Guide for Automated Instance Provisioningguide
  • Warm Pool Configuration Playbook (Auto-Scaling Between Tasks)sop

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.