Washington State Community Cloud

The Washington State Community Cloud provides customers with an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud located within the WaTech Data Centers.  Using a self-service portal, customers have on-demand access to a shared pool of compute resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released as virtual servers on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Features & Benefits

  • Automated self-provisioning
  • Customer Adjustable VM resources
  • Windows Server and Red Hat licensing included
  • 10Gb host networking
  • Supports Enterprise Active Directory (EAD) authentication for management
  • Data stored on state-maintained equipment
  • Storage encryption using FIPS 140-2 compliant AES-256-bit encryption key
  • Highly available hyper-converged clusters in an N+2 configuration.
  • Adhere to all enterprise security standards and the environment
  • Micro segmentation via VMware NSX-T (optional, no charge)

Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) - Single VM Instances

Minimum Configuration: 1 vCPU; 2GB memory; 90GB provisioned storage (storage is charged on used capacity, not provisioned)

Components can be added in these increments:

  • Virtual CPU 1vCPU increments
  • Memory 1GB increments
  • Storage 1GB increments

 

SDC and QDC

Hourly Rates

Daily Rates

Maximum Monthly

vCPU (Core/Hour)

$0.051694

$1.240656

$37.84

Memory (GB/Hour)

$0.010820

$0.259672

$7.92

Storage (GB/Hour)

$0.000120

$0.002886

$0.088


Rates shown are calculated on a 366-day year, 30.5 days per month, and 732 hours per month.

Pre-service requirements

In order to use this service, your organization must:

Currently be a part of the SGN or PGN.

  • Be running Windows Server 2016 or above.
  • Be using service capabilities for workforce access and identity.

Optional Features

Service documents

Service Key Performance Indicators

  • Customer engagement
  • Number of customers using the capabilities
  • How many GB do we have backed up in Veeam