NSF-funded recipients of DCL 23-101 National Discovery Cloud for Climate (NDC-C) funds may request up to $25K for cloud computing resources to use public clouds supported by CloudBank: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud.

BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR REQUEST, please read through our best practices guide for putting together a proposal and see our tips for estimating cloud spending. For reference, we also provide an example dcl request. Please email help@cloudbank.org if you have any problems using this form or if you need help estimating your costs.

  • CloudBank cloud accounts should not be used to store protected or sensitive data that requires compliance protection. If your research involves human-related data, please specify that you will only be working on public datasets or de-identified data in your justification.
  • Human labor services like Mechanical Turk are out of scope for this DCL.
Please enter your first name (must be a PI or Co-PI listed on the award).
Please enter your last name (must be a PI or Co-PI listed on the award).
Please enter your institutional email address (must end in either .edu or .org).
Please enter a valid numeric id for an active NSF award. E.g., 1925001.
Please select the public cloud provider(s) that you are requesting to use in CloudBank.
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Please enter an estimated amount (in dollars) up to $25K for cloud resources needed to support your NSF award. Estimate the amount for no more than 1 year.

Cloud Calculator Estimate URL

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This must be an external URL such as http://example.com.
Please provide a link to a cloud calculator estimate from one of the public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, IBM, Azure). This is only used to estimate costs and does not imply a commitment to only one cloud. Note, this URL should be a unique URL to an estimate generated directly from one of the calculators -- for Azure, you will need to create an account to generate a unique URL. If you are requesting access to more than one cloud, click the "ADD ANOTHER ITEM" button below to add another calculator URL.
Please enter a high-level description of your proposed cloud use, how it relates to your current NSF award, and how you calculated your public cloud spend estimate. Please see an example justification on our page here.
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