SOCA 2025 Vision & Wishlist

[mcrozes]

Hello,

Below is the vision for SOCA this year, in no particular/priority order.

Public contributions are always welcome, whether it’s for an item in this list or a new capability you would like to see. Now go build!

⚠️ This list is not an official roadmap, and as SOCA is community driven, I am not in position to say that all these features will be live by 2025. Feel free to contact aligo@amazon.com if you want more details.

🖥️ Operating Systems

• Add support for Ubuntu / Debian (LTS) (🚀 Shipped 25.3.0)
• Add support for SUSE Enterprise Linux
• Deprecate End-Of-Life OS (CentOS and RHEL7). Please use Rocky8/9 or RHEL8/9 instead (🚀 Shipped 25.1.0)
• Add support for new OS versions within 6 months of their release (e.g: RHEL10)

🔒 Security

• SOCA Projects: Rework ACL managements for HPC jobs/queue and VDI instance types/AMI (🚀 Shipped 25.3.0)
• Integration of Amazon Verified Permissions (https://aws.amazon.com/verified-permissions/)
• Native Support of Amazon Network Firewall (https://aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/)

⚙️ General Updates

• Rewrite dispatcher/ original SOCA orchestrator logic / scheduler hooks (code has originally been written for python2) (🚀 Shipped 25.11.0)
• Rework job-shared queuing mechanism
• Rework SOCA System Packages logic to be easily configureable by the various operating systems / architectures we are supporting (🚀 Shipped 25.3.0)
• Web UI cosmetic changes (🚀 Some parts updated on 25.3.0)
• Refresh aging javascript modules (Application Management, Monaco Text Editor ...) (🚀 Shipped 25.11.0)
• Support for Job Chaining (launch multiple AMIs based on a given workbench/template)
• Support for multi-regions deployment
• Support for PBS Pro and potentially Windows compute instance (subject to feature support by the scheduler)
• Support for AWS Global Accelerator (https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/) (🚀 Shipped 25.3.0)
• Support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (https://aws.amazon.com/pcs/) (🚀 Shipped 25.11.0)
• Support for FSx for NetApp ONTAP (https://aws.amazon.com/fr/fsx/netapp-ontap/) (🚀 Shipped 25.1.0)
• Support for S3 MountPoints (https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3) (🚀 Shipped 25.1.0)
• Simplify Shared Storage Mounts (one wrapper to support all sort of cloud native and on-premise storage) (🚀 Shipped 25.1.0)
• Warm Pools for Virtual Desktops
• Support for existing Directory Services (🚀 Shipped 25.1.0)
• Combine system & SOCA python (centralized python environment for OpenPBS & SOCA builds) (🚀 Shipped 25.3.0)
• Explore additional schedulers (LSF ...) (🚀 Shipped 25.11.0)
• Integration with AWS Bedrock (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/) for AI/GenAI logic (please contact us if you have any use case / project ideas) (🚀 Amazon Q Business Shipped 25.3.0)
• Easy Integration with external tools such as SPDM (e.g: Ansys Minerva)
• Improve SOCA Floating License support (https://awslabs.github.io/scale-out-computing-on-aws-documentation/tutorials/job-licenses-flexlm/)
• Avoid capacity provisioning errors by configuring smart ODCR (On Demand Capacity Reservation) (🚀 Preview 25.8.0)
• And more (improve telemetry, windows fast AMI launch, Apache Airflow ....)

[mcrozes]

⚙️ Additional Updates that did not make it to the original post:

• Updated Python from 3.9 to 3.13(🚀 Shipped 25.5.0)
• Added VDI support for Amazon Linux 2023 (🚀 Shipped 25.5.0)
• User Personas and Feature Flags (🚀 Shipped 25.8.0)
• Elastic Container Registry (🚀 Preview 25.8.0)
• Elastic Kubernete Service (🚀 Preview 25.8.0)
• Support for EC2 Serial Console (🚀 Shipped 25.8.0)