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Change Description

Implementing #15413

First pass at setting up the necessary cloud resources to run Hail on AWS. The intended result of following these instructions is an EKS cluster with no Hail services running that is ready to be bootstrapped by the existing bootstrap scripts (after slight modification).

Security Assessment

• This change cannot impact the Hail Batch instance as deployed by Broad Institute in GCP

Impact Rating

• This change has a high security impact

Impact Description

This change cannot have any impact on the actual Hail production instance, but it will be used to create a new Hail Batch instance which will eventually be production.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds an AWS EKS CloudFormation deployment, deployment instructions and parameters, and AWS-specific validation for query storage URL prefixes with S3AsyncFS.

Changes: AWS infrastructure deployment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deployment inputs and configuration infra/aws/README.md, infra/aws/hail-is/parameters.json, infra/aws/main.yaml	The guide describes AWS setup and stack creation. The parameter file and template define network, domain, and global configuration values.
VPC and network resources infra/aws/main.yaml	The template adds a VPC, three public subnets, internet routing, and an internal-gateway network interface.
EKS cluster and node groups infra/aws/main.yaml	The template adds cluster and node IAM roles, an EKS cluster, on-demand and Spot node groups, cluster access configuration, and an OIDC provider.
Storage, repositories, add-ons, and exports infra/aws/main.yaml	The template adds ECR repositories, encrypted S3 buckets, EKS add-ons and their IAM roles, and CloudFormation exports.

AWS query storage validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AWS URL-prefix validation batch/batch/cloud/utils.py	The AWS branch validates the query storage URL prefix with S3AsyncFS.valid_url.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

• [aws] Minimal changes to recognize AWS as a valid cloud #15507 — The template sets AWS-specific configuration values in global-config.
• [aws] AWS services bootstrapped #15505 — The template creates EKS infrastructure required before Kubernetes bootstrap scripts can install Hail services.
• [aws] hailctl <-> AWS communication #15791 — The template configures the EKS endpoints, public CIDRs, and cluster access entry.
• [aws] Set up cloud logging and metrics #15790 — The template installs the CloudWatch observability add-on and associates its service account with an IAM role.
• [aws] Investigate ways to reduce cost for standing cluster #15884 — The template creates an EKS cluster with on-demand and Spot node groups.
• [aws] Run jobs on AWS workers #15622 — The template creates AWS compute infrastructure, including EKS node groups, network resources, and IAM roles.
• Update logs apis to always access cloud storage #15718 — The template creates the S3 batch-log bucket and sets its URI in global-config.
• Sync logs to cloud continuously #15717 — The template creates the S3 batch-log bucket and publishes its URI in global-config.
• [aws] Set up system accounts #15509 — The template creates IAM roles and pod identity associations for EKS add-ons.

Possibly related PRs

• hail-is/hail#15697 — Adds bootstrap scripts for this AWS cluster and extends the CloudFormation template with resources those scripts use.

Suggested reviewers: sarahgibs

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 6f70f

Configure a default storage class before deploying monitoring workloads; otherwise Grafana and Prometheus cannot start.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 10070

The new AWS foundation introduces account-wide provisioning authority and shared infrastructure identities. Workload isolation depends partly on environment defaults, and failed-deployment recovery is unspecified. Restricted cluster access and protected storage reduce exposure, and this change does not itself deploy Hail services.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Both new node pools share a worker, CNI, ECR-read and SSM role, while their launch templates leave metadata controls implicit. If workloads can reach instance metadata, workload compromise can cross into that shared node authority. Effective account defaults and workload reachability are unknown; this is not evidence that IMDSv1 is enabled or that arbitrary AWS secrets are accessible.
• Low · security · observed: The EBS CSI driver and Secrets Store provider are assigned the same role containing EBS, CNI and ECR policies, although VPC CNI has a separate role. This newly couples unrelated add-on authority. Operational role assumption is not demonstrated, so the declared policy sharing is not proof that a compromised provider currently obtains those permissions. Missing Secrets Manager permissions on the provider role alone are not a finding: secret access belongs to the consuming workload identity.
• Medium · security · inferred: The documented deployment creates a persistent AdministratorAccess CloudFormation role and disables stack rollback, without specifying caller restrictions or recovery and cleanup ownership. A principal authorized to direct stack operations through that role could exercise account-wide provisioning authority. The repository does not establish that an unauthorized principal has that access, or that external guardrails are absent.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The broadest declared authority is the CloudFormation role's AdministratorAccess in the selected AWS account. Conditional workload-to-metadata exposure instead reaches the shared node role, not automatically that administrator role or S3 application data. These new AWS paths do not establish exposure of the existing GCP deployment.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A compromised workload could obtain node credentials only if its metadata path is reachable under the effective AMI, account and network settings. AL2023 normally requiring IMDSv2 is important counterevidence to an IMDSv1 claim; it does not alone establish pod isolation. No untrusted workload deployment or successful credential retrieval is shown.
• observed — The two retained add-on findings overlap on the same shared-role declaration. The supported architecture issue is authority coupling, not a demonstrated secret-read failure or compromise. The strongest counterevidence places Secrets Manager access on consuming workload identities rather than requiring it on the provider role.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The provisioning role trusts cloudformation.amazonaws.com, not arbitrary human principals. The CSI role trusts pods.eks.amazonaws.com while its add-ons specify ServiceAccountRoleArn; a working credential association is not demonstrated. Separately, the VPC CNI role restricts web identity to kube-system:aws-node. These distinctions limit conclusions about effective authority from policy attachment alone.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The administrator service role is created outside the stack, so stack rollback or deletion does not itself define that role's retirement. Combined with disabled rollback, this requires an explicit operator recovery and authority-cleanup contract. The evidence does not establish what remains after any particular deployed failure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define and validate an explicit node-metadata isolation policy, separate add-on roles by responsibility, and use identity bindings consistent with each role's trust mechanism. Validate the resulting credential paths before introducing untrusted workloads.
• proposed — Document the provisioning role's caller and stack-operation restrictions, applicable account guardrails, and failed-create recovery and role-retirement procedures. Assign ownership of the AWS-to-Kubernetes configuration handoff and make its successful completion a bootstrap precondition.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the initial AWS infrastructure work.
Description check		The description is mostly complete and includes all template sections. The high-impact assessment does not explain the impact or its mitigations. AppSec approval is unchecked, but the template makes t…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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- Around line 76-85: Add explicit MetadataOptions to both node
LaunchTemplateData definitions, setting HttpTokens to required and
HttpPutResponseHopLimit to 1 so pods cannot reach node metadata by default.
- Around line 488-495: Update VdcClusterAddonSecretsStoreCsiProvider to use a
dedicated least-privilege role instead of VdcClusterCsiDriverRole, and remove
the CNI and ECR policies from VdcClusterCsiDriverRole. Keep Secrets Manager
permissions off the provider role; grant the consuming workload’s
service-account role GetSecretValue and DescribeSecret only for the required
secret ARNs, plus Decrypt when customer-managed keys require it.
- Line 80: Update the Iops settings for both EKS node launch-template gp3
volumes to at least 3,000, ensuring both desired node groups use a supported
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I agree and approve of the general direction.

The ai reviews seem to have found some genuine issues. I'll change to a thumb up once they're addressed.

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- Line 433: Update the EBS CSI and CloudWatch add-on configurations to use
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Add a second instance type to the Spot node group.

88-88: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a second instance type to the Spot node group.

The Spot node group gets its only instance type, t3a.large, from its launch template. If t3a.large Spot capacity is short in the selected subnets, the group has no other type to launch. AWS recommends listing multiple instance types for Spot node groups.

Move the instance type from the launch template to the node group. Keep the launch template's metadata options, volume, and user data. AWS allows 0-20 instanceTypes when the launch template has no instance type. The deployment fails only when both are set.

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 VdcPreemptibleNodeGroup:
   Type: AWS::EKS::Nodegroup
   Properties:
     CapacityType: "SPOT"
+    InstanceTypes:
+      - t3a.large
+      - t3.large
     LaunchTemplate:
       Id: !Ref VdcPreemptibleNodeLaunchTemplate

 VdcPreemptibleNodeLaunchTemplate:
   Type: AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate
   Properties:
     LaunchTemplateData:
-      InstanceType: t3a.large

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Update VdcPreemptibleNodeGroup to declare multiple Spot instance types,
including t3a.large and t3.large, and remove InstanceType from
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Major · Create a default EBS StorageClass before deploying workloads. · main.yaml:436-446

infra/aws/main.yaml:436-446
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Create a default EBS StorageClass before deploying workloads.

On a fresh EKS cluster, the Grafana and Prometheus claims have no default StorageClass. Without matching pre-provisioned volumes, the claims remain Pending and both services stay unavailable. Create an encrypted default ebs.csi.aws.com StorageClass before deploying these manifests.

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Add an encrypted default StorageClass using the ebs.csi.aws.com provisioner to
the cluster setup, and ensure it is created before the Grafana and Prometheus
workload manifests are deployed. Use the existing Kubernetes resource-management
approach and configure the class as the cluster’s default.

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- Around line 436-446: Add an encrypted default StorageClass using the
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