Successful AWS training program continues and expands

In October 2019, Yale entered into a five-year enterprise agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide cloud services for the Yale community. As part of this agreement, AWS gave us $200K in promotional research credits to distribute in small grants for research new to AWS.

The new research credit program will award up to ten proposals each year, for the next three years. Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students can apply for grants of $5,000 - $10,000 in AWS services.

In collaboration with ITS, the Yale Center for Research Computing (YCRC) announced the first round of the program in August 2020. We received 18 applications and awarded credits to eight projects ranging from creating climate model simulations of extreme El Niño events to analyzing data of the social-behavioral aspects of COVID-19. Use cases included moving workloads from the Yale HPC clusters to AWS, pilot projects, and workshops.

Yale will announce the FY22 application timeline this summer. For additional information about this program, please visit our AWS Research Credits Program webpage.