IUCC enables procurement of cloud services for academic research in the framework of the Nimbus Project, the Israeli government’s multi-year flagship project to enable large-scale provision of public cloud services to government agencies and offices. The projects offers significant discounts and more preferable terms and conditions. IUCC has signed Nimbus agreements for Google Cloud Services and AWS services.
The Nimbus project is led by the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General’s Division of the Ministry of Finance. The Nimbus Project began in early 2019 and is designed to give a comprehensive and in-depth reference looking at the overall life cycle of providing public cloud services to the government.
For more information about discounts for researchers via the Nimbus project, please visit https://www.iucc.ac.il/en/infrastructuretechnologies/cloud-services/.