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:
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