Various free cloud resources are available to students and faculty. Below is some information from GCP, Amazon, Azure, and Oracle.

GCP

GCP offers free cloud credits with two programs:

Research Credits - up to $5,000

• Best used for Individual research projects.
• Requires a researcher to complete an application (30 minutes). An application is reviewed within 2-6 weeks.
• Once issued, credits must be redeemed within 60 days and expire within twelve months. 
• To learn more about this program, please visit the Google Cloud Research Credits page and FAQ.

Teaching and Learning Coupons - $100 per faculty member and $50 per student

• Best used for instructor-led classes.
• Requires an application process (30 minutes). An application is reviewed within two weeks.
• A faculty member may apply for multiple courses.
• To learn more about this program, please visit Google Credits for your Students page and FAQ.

GCP Help Session: Last Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM

RC Cloud architect and GCP technical and product experts attend each one-hour session.
Please join us on a Zoom call.  (An active Princeton NetID is required to attend the help session.)

AWS

AWS Offers various free cloud credits for students, faculty, and researchers.

AWS Educate - $250 per faculty member and $100 per student (renewed annually)

• Faculty and Students can get their own AWS accounts by signing up with their own @princeton.edu email address and supplying credit card information as part of the setup process.
• Best used for individual small-scale research.
  To learn more about this program, please visit the Amazon Educate page and FAQ.

AWS Educate Account for Classroom - $250 per faculty member and $100 per student (renewed annually)

• Best used for instructor-led classes.
• Students enroll in a faculty account, and faculty receive credits to be used by the students in the class.
• To learn more about this program, please visit AWS Educate for Classroom page and FAQ. 

AWS Academy - Provides curated content developed by AWS

• Faculty members can integrate modules or become certified to deliver an entire AWS-designed course.
• To learn more about this program, please visit the AWS Academy page.
• Researcher-specific programs - grant amounts between $5,000 and $60,000.
  • Best used for individual research projects.
  • Typically, a 12-month program, but exceptions could be made if appropriate.
  • Requires an application process. Applications are reviewed quarterly.

To learn more about this program, please visit the AWS Cloud Credits for Research page and FAQ.

AWS Research Office Hours: First Tuesday of the month at 1:00 PM

RC Cloud architect and AWS technical and product experts attend each one-hour session.
Please join us on a Zoom call.  (An active Princeton NetID is required to attend the help session.)

Azure

Azure offers free cloud resources for students

• Azure for Students - $100 per student
• Best used for individual small-scale research
• To learn more about this program, please visit the Azure for Students page and FAQ. 
• Educational Resources:
  • Web Dev for Beginners: 24 Lessons 
  • Data Science for Beginners: 20 Lessons
  • IOT for Beginners: 24 Lessons 
  • ML for Beginners: 26 Lessons

Oracle

Oracle offers cloud credits to host, process, analyze and store research data. To learn more about this program, please visit the Oracle for Research and FAQ

• Oracle Starter Award - $1000 cloud credit
• Oracle Project Award - Upon evaluation of the project, accepted proposals are awarded sufficient Cloud credits to cover the required Cloud resources for a year