Simcenter X architecture and security white paper

This eight-page white paper gives a technical overview of Simcenter X, a browser-based service for running engineering simulation workloads in the cloud, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. It is written jointly by Siemens and AWS authors and follows the structure of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

What the document covers

• The architecture: login through a browser or from inside Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Siemens WebKey authentication, serverless microservices on AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 storage, compute clusters and NICE DCV remote desktops
• The user and data flow for interactive remote desktop sessions and cloud HPC jobs, from file upload to cluster teardown, with file access through Teamcenter Share
• Data management: regional deployments in North Virginia, Stockholm and Tokyo, customer-selected regions and use of availability zones
• High availability through Siemens Xcelerator as a Service and AWS-managed services
• Tenancy and isolation: dedicated compute per job or session, unique storage prefixes and one-time token-based file transfers
• Security measures, including threat modelling, third-party penetration testing, encryption at rest and in transit with TLS 1.2, and the standards referenced such as ISO 27001, TISAX and SOC 2 Type 2

Who it is for

Written for IT security officers, cloud architects and CAE managers who need to assess cloud-based simulation before approving it for engineering data.