User Guidelines

Cosmos Subscription Rules and Guidelines

Welcome to Cosmos, a platform offering various subscription types for Azure Cosmos DB, Stanford's Cosmos data platform, and WunderGraph Cosmo Managed Service. Here's a breakdown of the main subscription types and their terms.

Azure Cosmos DB Subscriptions

Provisioned Throughput Account: This subscription type requires a commitment to a specific throughput capacity measured in Request Units per second (RU/s). You are billed for the provisioned throughput amount regardless of actual usage during each billing period.
Serverless Account: With no minimum throughput or capacity planning, you are only billed for the RUs consumed by your database operations and the storage used. Serverless containers can handle thousands of requests per second without pre-provisioning charges.
Free Tier Account: Azure Cosmos DB offers a free tier providing 1000 RU/s and 25 GB storage per account per subscription. This is limited to one free tier account per Azure subscription. The free tier is not compatible with the serverless capacity mode.

Key limitations with the serverless account include no support for free tier discounts, geo-redundancy, multi-region writes, or availability zones. Additional configurations like networking, backup policies, and encryption can be set up as per user needs. Billing is based exclusively on RU consumption and storage usage.

Stanford Medicine Cosmos Access Levels (Data Subscription Types)

Aggregate-level Access: This level allows cohort discovery and feasibility analysis using the Slicer Dicer tool in the Cosmos Portal, suitable for high-level data queries.
Line-level Access (SQL): This grants detailed, line-level data access via SQL tools. Requires completion of Epic COS305 ($200) and COS500 ($600) for a total of $800. This credential is for data architects.
Line-level Data Science Tools Access (R or Python): Offers programmatic, line-level access for advanced analysis using R or Python. Requires Epic COS305 ($200) and COS550 ($200), totaling $400, designed for data scientists.

These access levels require proper certification and approval, with requests submitted via email alongside certification proof. The Cosmos data includes de-identified patient information with some data transformations like date shifting for privacy. Use of the platform is governed by specific "rules of the road."

WunderGraph Cosmo Managed Service Subscription:

This is a paid cloud subscription service with defined feature and usage limits on a monthly usage period basis. Customers may purchase non-refundable usage limit extensions valid only during the current usage period. Any unused extension credits expire at the end of the month, and limits revert to standard levels.

In addition to the subscription types, Cosmos has some general terms and conditions that all users must adhere to:

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At no time can a single user Cosmos Digital subscription, or an unlimited Digital subscription be used to download and store our platform issues or Cosmos website content for the purpose of sharing with users not permitted within the subscription Terms and Conditions.
An unlimited Digital subscription, such as Enterprise or Site Licence, permits the subscribing organisation to access the Cosmos Digital subscription on an unlimited use basis.
At no time can there be more than one Digital subscriber accessing a single user Digital Subscription or share their Cosmos login details with other users or organisations.
You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorised purpose nor may you, in the use of our subscriptions or products, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).
Shipping is by surface mail throughout Australia and sea mail overseas for Print Subscriptions.
Login details, which include usernames and passwords, for single user Digital Subscriptions or Print and Digital Subscriptions must not be shared.
You may not utilise a Digital, Enterprise, or Site Licence subscription to provide hosting or establish connections for other users or organisations.
A weekly edition Subscription provides access to exclusive content on the Cosmos website.
By purchasing, acquiring, redeeming, or using any Cosmos subscription or product or this site, you agree to these Terms & Conditions.
The notice and disclaimer at https://www.csiro.au/en/about/Policies/Legal/Legal-notice apply to this site.
A Digital Subscription allows access to the Cosmos website and digital magazine replicas.
Unique URLs must not be made available publicly such as via an externally accessible institution portal page.
By agreeing to these Terms and conditions, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence, and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
Site licences (as part of education subscriptions) which utilise a unique URL must not be shared outside of the institution which holds that subscription.
An unlimited Digital subscription, such as Enterprise or Site Licence, permits the use of the organisation who owns the subscription, employees of the organisation, students who attend the organisation, or the organisations library visitors.
If misuse is detected, we will contact you and your subscription may be terminated and you will not be eligible for a refund.
Institutions found to be sharing their unique access to our platform's website will be contacted and potentially have their subscription terminated.
The notice and disclaimer at https://www.csiro.au/en/about/Policies/Legal/Legal-notice apply to this site.

In the realm of WunderGraph Cosmo Managed Service Subscription, this is a paid service with financial implications, as it has defined limits on usage for a monthly basis, and customers can purchase non-refundable usage limit extensions only during the current usage period.
The industry of finance plays a crucial role in the Cosmos platform, as billing is based on Request Unit consumption and storage usage for various business operations, such as Azure Cosmos DB, Stanford Medicine Cosmos Data Subscriptions, and WunderGraph Cosmo Managed Service Subscriptions.