Cloud Computing Options for NIH Grant Funded Research

	ITS Cloud Support Service	STRIDES AWS Account From Four Points Technologies	STRIDES GCP Account From Burwood Group
Billing	ITS receives a monthly bill from AWS and does a transfer to researcher’s COA.	Researcher’s department creates a PO to Four Points Technologies. Four Points bills the researcher directly.	ITS receives a monthly bill from Burwood and does a transfer to researcher’s COA.
Cost	AWS costs; no markup	AWS costs; no markup	GCP costs; no markup
Usage discounts off of vendor list prices	9%	9%
Egress waiver
Vendor support	AWS Enterprise Support	AWS Enterprise Support	None
Community support	AWS channel at https://yale.slack.com
Security guardrails applied by ITS	Yes	Yes	Yes
Optional integration with Yale internal network	Yes	?	Yes
Data classifications permitted	Low/moderate/high risk	Low/moderate/high risk	Low risk
Reporting	Grant owner responsible for any required reporting to NIH	Four Points handles reporting to NIH required for the STRIDES Initiative.	Burwood handles reporting to NIH required for the STRIDES Initiative.