Lift-n-Shift your CAx, PLM Applications to the Cloud
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Lift-n-Shift your CAx, PLM Applications to the Cloud

PLM and CAD Applications like Siemens Teamcenter and NX, Solid Edge CAD software have traditionally been implemented On-premise with multi-tier physical servers hosted on the premises. The end-users machine needs to have a high capacity of resources and dedicated Video/GPU memory to handle heavy workloads like graphical simulation and rendering. Procuring such memory-intensive machines will need in advance planning and can get very expensive.

These issues can be addressed by migrating CAD & PLM implementations natively to Cloud and using Amazon AppStream 2.0 to stream Applications and Desktop securely and reliably to the end user’s machine in a browser window.

High-level architecture of the Teamcenter components running on AWS Cloud along with AppStream delivering the client applications by streaming to the browser window of the user.

  • In the above architecture, the simple Teamcenter implementation consists of a License Server, App Server with Web-tier application running for Active Workspace Launcher and a Volume Server (with an EBS volume attached to the EC2 App Server)
  • Oracle RDS Instance for Database as a service.
  • The App Server and License Server are having an Elastic IP attached.
  • All the infrastructure is in Private Subnet with no public-facing infrastructure for maximum security.
Migrating CAD & PLM workloads and implementation on the cloud have never been easier and simpler. Couple that with Application Delivery to End users using AppStream 2.0 greatly reduces the CapEX and only contributes towards OpEX as the AppStream instances are on-demand based and no cost is incurred when the machine is not being utilized. It also helps the organization to scale up without procuring any Hardware infrastructure easily to any number of users across different geographical locations and creates a cohesive remote workplace environment, especially in this post-COVID-19 situation.

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