Data plane infrastructure components
Services deployed in customer AWS account
As part of the Netezza SaaS BYOC deployment process, the following AWS services are provisioned within the user's AWS account to support orchestration, monitoring, and secure communication.
| Component | Cloud provider | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SQS | AWS | Used for communication between the data plane and control plane during deployment. |
| SNS | AWS | Fully managed pub/sub messaging service used for alerting. |
| Prometheus | AWS | Open-source monitoring and alerting system integrated for alerting. |
| Step Functions / Lambda | AWS | Used for orchestrating Netezza SaaS BYOC workflows. |
| CloudFormation | AWS | Used to automate the deployment of Netezza SaaS BYOC infrastructure. |
| Secret Manager | AWS | Securely stores secrets required for Netezza deployment. |
| CloudWatch | AWS | Used for logging and monitoring. |
| ServiceBus | Azure | Provides communication between IBM Control Plane and your Data Plane. A Basic Tier ServiceBus is provisioned in the your subscription. |
| Logic apps | Azure | Serverless platform for automating long-running workflows. |
| Azure Functions | Azure | Serverless compute for event-driven management workflows. |
| Azure Monitor | Azure | Monitoring and logging for service workflows. |
| Azure Redis Cache | Azure | Stores persistent database monitoring metadata (1 GB). |
| Azure Lighthouse | Azure | Secure access for IBM SRE to manage/debug BYOC infrastructure. |
| Azure API Management | Azure | REST interfaces for management capabilities. |
Infrastructure provisioned for engine instances
During the provisioning of Netezza SaaS BYOC engine instances, the following infrastructure components are deployed within the user's AWS environment:
| Component | Cloud provider | Details |
|---|---|---|
| EC2 VMs | AWS | R series, I series. |
| EKS | AWS | M Series nodes used for infrastructure. |
| EBS | AWS | Block storage. |
| S3 | AWS | Object storage. |
| EFS | AWS | Elastic File System. |
| ALB/NLB | AWS | Application and Network Load Balancers. |
| NAT/IG Gateway | AWS | Gateway. |
| PrivateLink | AWS | Private deployment. |
| Service/Gateway Endpoints | AWS | VPC endpoints. |
| Azure Storage Account | Azure | Blob and Premium SSD v2 block storage; multiple accounts per engine instance. |
| NetApp Account | Azure | NFS storage with initial 4 TB capacity pool. |
| Azure Virtual Machines | Azure | Used for service orchestration and instance management. |
| AKS (Kubernetes) | Azure | Hosts data processing compute across three zones. |
| Azure Load Balancers | Azure | Provides network connectivity for engine instances. |