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How to get access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) at UC Berkeley

Summary

See Amazon Web Services Home (wikihub.berkeley.edu) Unfortunately, wikihub is not searched by search engines.

AWS Educate

AWS Educate provides free annual credits to educators and students

• See https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/ to join
• UC Berkeley is a AWS Educate Institution member

Grants

If you would like to get more credits that what are available under AWS Educate, then start the process before pursuing the Bear Buy approach below.

• AWS research credits
• contact AWS Educate

Bear Buy

It looks like it is possible to get AWS via BearBuy

In BearBuy, click on the IS&T Telecom link, which leads to https://ucb.service-now.com/navpage.do and then search for aws. One of the links was:

https://ucb.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0010093 which says:

Greg Merrit's comment: "This knowledge base entry references a form which is not here. This is the exact text that appears in the new Telecom Catalog above the form. This REALLY needs a link to the Telecom Catalog, or directions on how to click through to get to the form."

Resources

• http://micronet-at-uc-berkeley.840177.n3.nabble.com/Micronet-any-way-to-try-AWS-without-credit-card-td4028984.html - Any way to try AWS without credit card (Micronet, 2015])
  • Aaron Culich wrote: "Whatever your use case (academic or administrative), the campus has a contract with AWS that you can leverage that is different than the contract you would get if you signed up for it on your own with your credit card. The folks who can speak to that part is Isaac Orr and Michael Green in IST Telecom & Networking who have been working with AWS so the campus will have a better process for billing (e.g. using BearBuy instead of a credit card), as well as network connectivity with AWS networks."
• Berkeley Research Computing
  • See http://research-it.berkeley.edu/blog/15/07/28/brc-consulting-helps-facilitate-connected-corridors-cloud
    • BTW - the correct link is AWS research credits
• aws-users mailing list at Berkeley