CloudBank Research
CloudBank
Resource Type: Compute
User Guide: https://www.cloudbank.org/training/getting-started-using-cloudbank-portal
Recommended Use: CloudBank may be leveraged for, but is not limited to, the following use cases: supporting small-scale research production infrastructure that leverages commercial cloud tools to deliver highly available and resilient services; supporting AI workloads that are modest in scale and well-suited to commercial cloud platforms; validating and testing the scalability of software tools or systems under realistic cloud conditions; accessing unique hardware or specialized cloud tools and services; studying the behavior of regionally or globally distributed cloud environments, including network performance and latency; and hosting community tools, datasets, or science gateways. CloudBank is not intended to support large-scale compute or GPU-intensive workloads, which can be executed more cost-effectively on other on-premises ACCESS resources.
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Production Dates: 12/01/2025 -
Public URL: https://cider.access-ci.org/public/resources/RDR_003573
Description: CloudBank enables researchers to access commercial cloud platforms through the ACCESS and NAIRR Pilot allocation processes. Awards are made in dollars and usable across the following commercial cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. After onboarding, the CloudBank portal automatically creates cloud accounts for the platforms listed in your request, with the option to add more later. In the CloudBank Portal, you can manage which authorized users have permission to your cloud accounts and easily access the cloud vendor platforms using federated login with your ACCESS credentials. CloudBank continuously monitors resource usage, applies charges against your allocation, and delivers automated spend alerts. Regulated data is also supported on CloudBank. Currently, CloudBank is available to early-access users only. CloudBank expects to be available for general ACCESS and NAIRR Pilot users in December.