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Review Date: 2026-06-16
Reviewer: Operations Manager

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myDRE Optional Services Catalog

This service catalog defines the optional, advanced add-on infrastructure services available for the myDRE platform. These components enable enhanced functionality—such as centralized software deployment, multi-party computation, and advanced machine learning—while maintaining alignment with ISO 27001:2023 (A.08.20, A.08.22) and NIS 2 security architecture frameworks.

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Cost Transparency Policy: Optional services are subject to two cost vectors:

  1. Additional raw Microsoft Azure consumption costs (billed directly via your organization's Azure Provider).
  2. Service-specific provisioning or management fees which may be applied by anDREa. All financial figures listed are indicative projections, expressed in Euros (€), and exclude VAT.

1. Centralized Software Share

Instead of uploading redundant installer files across individual research environments, a centralized Software Share provides a consolidated library managed directly by the Tenant's Local Research Support Team.

  • Operational Benefits: Greatly optimizes storage efficiency by keeping a single copy of frequently used applications and simplifies the end-user setup experience inside Virtual Machines.
  • Deployment Protocol: Requested by the Local Research Support Team via a standard support ticket.

Indicative Monthly Azure Consumption Profile

Infrastructure ComponentEstimated Operational ScopeIndicative Cost (EUR/Month)
Chocolatey Repository ServerCore package management orchestration engine€72.00
Azure Storage Account & Fileshare1 TB baseline capacity utilization (Estimated at €0.0551 per GB)€55.10
Storage Transactions200,000 Read/Write I/O cycles€7.50
Azure Private Link730 hours continuous secure routing€7.30
Private Link Network Transit10 TB Ingress/Egress data transfer volume€91.00
Total Estimated Footprint€232.90

2. RDP-over-HTML (Azure Bastion Integration)

This network mitigation allows researchers to securely access both Windows (GUI) and Linux (SSH/GUI) Virtual Machines directly through a standard web browser interface.

  • Security & Network Benefits: Bypasses perimeter blocks on standard RDP port 3389. By encapsulating remote sessions natively inside HTTPS port 443, it eliminates the exposure of public management ports to the internet.
  • Technical Constraints: Requires a baseline deployment scale of at least 2 active VMs within the environment. Local Research Support Teams must manually adjust Bastion scale tiers to accommodate user volume spikes.
  • Deployment Protocol: Requested by the Local Research Support Team via a standard support ticket.

Indicative Monthly Azure Consumption Profile

Scale MatrixCapacity ThresholdsIndicative Cost (EUR/Month)
Base ConfigurationEncompasses the first 40 to 80 concurrently active VMs€192.00
Incremental Upscaling TierAdded dynamically for each additional batch of 20 to 40 active VMs+ €96.00
Total Baseline Footprint€288.00

3. Advanced Enterprise Integrations

These specialized platforms can be embedded directly into tenant subscriptions to support complex computing and secure data-sharing frameworks.

Azure Machine Learning (AML) Service

  • Capabilities: Provisions enterprise-grade data science environments, model training automation, and GPU-driven compute fabrics directly integrated with existing myDRE security parameters.
  • Provisioning & Commercial Inquiries: Contact support@mydre.org to review technical prerequisites and receive custom consumption mapping.

Linksight Server Instance Deployment

  • Capabilities: Facilitates secure decentralized data analysis through native Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Users can securely execute collaborative analytics across multi-institutional datasets without revealing underlying raw records.
  • Implementation: Deployed as a secure instance from the Azure Marketplace into the myDRE shared subscription plane.
  • Provisioning & Commercial Inquiries: Contact support@mydre.org for architecture deployment support.