Funding Opportunities

CUIMC and AWS are partnering to accelerate research, AI innovation, and scientific discovery through cloud technology, technical expertise, training, and research enablement programs. Together, AWS and CUIMC support faculty, researchers, students, startups, and research initiatives with access to advanced computing resources, cloud best practices, secure research environments, and opportunities for collaboration.

As a part of AWS' collaboration with CUIMC, AWS may provide the following: 

Promotional Credits (revised ServiceNow request form to come)

  • Faculty Support: AWS may provide AWS Promotional Credits to support faculty research and new faculty onboarding to CUIMC’s AWS Organization. 

  • Proof of Concepts: AWS may provide AWS Promotional Credits to faculty and researchers to conduct research proof of concepts. Faculty and researchers can request up to $250,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, which may be made available based on the research proposal’s scope and requirements. 

  • AI Research Initiative: AWS may make available AWS Promotional Credits equivalent to 20% of spend on AWS Services associated with running AI research projects on AWS, up to $250,000 per researcher, which may be made available based on the research proposal’s scope and requirements. 

  • Third-Party Sponsored Research: AWS may provide AWS Promotional Credits and technical support to support your third-party sponsored research opportunities to advance your research efforts such as the CIMBID AI Validation Platform up to $250,000 per project.

  • AWS Strategic Research Alliance: An AWS leader may act as a Sponsor for CUIMC’s research efforts within AWS. This can support a multi-year executive alignment, can be developed via regular campus visits via virtual and live meetings, and help to create a comprehensive ecosystem for advanced research at CUIMC.

Research:

  • Secure Research Portal (SRP) Creation: AWS is excited to support the success of CUIMC’s security and research teams’ development of a state-of-the-art secure research portal tailored to CUIMC’s sensitive research needs. AWS would be supportive of CUIMC building an environment where CUIMC researchers can access AWS Services through a secure portal that simplifies workflows while maintaining full auditability.

Programs

  • AWS Activate: AWS Activate provides startups with resources, including credits, training, and support, to help them build and scale their businesses on the AWS cloud. Through AWS Activate, we may make available up to $100,000 in AWS Promotional Credits for eligible startups.

AWS Subject Matter Experts and Publications

  • AWS Technical Teams: AWS may make available Solutions Architect personnel and subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide support on AWS architecture design. AWS Solution Architect support can help the CUIMC community - students, faculty, researchers, and alumni ideate, design, and architect solutions. AWS may also make available AWS Subject Matter Experts to introduce to the CUIMC community the most recent innovations in AWS artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing services. To drive ongoing enablement and insight to the newest AWS Services, and to provide your community with practical experience, AWS may make available hands-on training through Immersion Days and demonstrations.
  • CUIMC -AWS Academic Collaboration: AWS may make AWS SMEs available, fostering collaboration through workshops and supporting CUIMC workloads with AWS Promotional Credits. CUIMC and AWS will collaborate to define specific domain areas with clearly defined goals and outcomes.
  • AWS Academic Support: AWS may make available additional programs, such as the AWS Academy Generative AI Foundations course, and AWS Promotional Credits to support CUIMC efforts to integrate cloud computing and AI into curriculum.

For further information until an updated CUIMC ServiceNow form is created, contact CUIMC Cloud Services, CUIMC Research IT, or directly to the CUIMC AWS representative, Angela Helfrich.

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