Instructors and students who wish to use cloud compute cycles or services in their courses and/or research, have the opportunity to obtain grants and discounts through several provider prgrams.
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Amazon offers educators, researchers, and students access to their Amazon Web Services through AWS in Education. |
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Google offers a number of resources for instructors and research faculty through their University Relations program. |
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Microsoft offers educators free Azure for use in classrooms and curriculum through Windows Azure in Education. And for those interested in using the Azure platform for research there's the Azure for Research grant program. |