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CIROH Cloud leverages the power of Google Cloud to empower researchers and unlock groundbreaking advancements in hydrology. CIROH provides access to enterprise-level Google cloud platform to researchers.

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Unleashing Research Potential with Google Cloud Services

Here's some services and tools offered by Google Cloud:

  • Compute Engine: It is a highly scalable computing and hosting service that provides on-demand, high-performance computing resources. It lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure.

  • Cloud Storage: Google Cloud provides fast, low-cost, highly durable archive and backup storage, allowing researchers to readily access, analyze, and manipulate vast datasets efficiently.

  • BigQuery: Using its serverless architecture, researchers can use SQL queries to analyze huge datasets. It lets you manage all data types across clouds with fine-grained access controls.

  • Google Earth Engine: It is a cloud-based geospatial analysis platform to analyze earth observation data. Google Cloud offers Earth Engine for remote sensing research, predicting desease outbreaks, natural resource management, and more.


Requesting CIROH Google Cloud Accounts

CIROH Cloud Hosting services include:

  • Creation of Google Cloud subaccounts for CIROH consortium members and partners.
  • Project PI contact identity creation and access (Google IAM)

To get started, please head to the "Accessing Public Cloud Services" section of the Infrastructure Access page.

Infrastructure Access
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Please refer to this link for references to submitted forms.


Cost of Use

  • Individual projects are allotted $500 monthly for use of AWS and Google Cloud services.
  • CIROH projects that anticipate exceeding the monthly budget for cloud services may request additional funds via the form below.
Exceeding Budget Request Form

Help and Support

  • Email UA's CIROH Cloud Team: ciroh-it-admin@ua.edu
  • Message the CIROH Cloud Slack Channel: #ciroh-ua-it-admin