Each CSP partner is working with its billing and administrative partner to establish billing relationships that will support NIH’s and NIH-funded investigators’ use of the respective cloud web services at a discounted rate. These partnerships are enabling NIH to make high-value datasets more accessible to researchers, helping optimize technology-intensive research, and lowering the technical, administrative, and economic barriers for research.
Going forward, NIH plans to leverage different capabilities of these commercial cloud service providers, and those of any future partners, to further realize NIH’s research mission.