The mission is to support the advancement of academic research by providing resources to researchers at accredited institutions, enabling them to leverage cloud technology to improve, facilitate, and accelerate their research and the research of their community.
The AWS Cloud Credits for Research Program aims to empower researchers with cloud-based tools by offering promotional credits for AWS services. The goals of the grant include helping researchers to create publicly available science-as-a-service applications, perform proof of concept or benchmark tests for migrating research workloads or open datasets to the cloud, and train the research community in the use of cloud resources. Projects that fit into the program are those focused on the development of cloud-hosted services, software, or tools, migration of research processes or open data to the cloud, and the provision of advanced workshops or tutorials on cloud technologies for research purposes.