Frequently Asked Questions

Providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

While you could create your own cloud environment under your personal email, you may miss out on discounts, additional security, and ease of access management. Further, if your cloud environment will be used to store, process, or transmit data for University business or data that must adhere to regulatory compliance, it needs to be in the University cloud environment. Contact us to learn more.

Benefits include:

• Make use of University agreements with vendors for potential discount
• Log in to the cloud securely using your University credentials with two-factor authentication
• Easily manage access using the University’s group access management tool
• Additional threat monitoring and protections
• Access to University cloud provider technical contacts

In most cases, you can use a University GEMS card (or other credit card) or a University purchase order (PO).

Complete the Cloud Services Support Request form.