NIH STRIDES Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative is designed to enhance biomedical discovery and improve efficiency through new digital data management strategies that contribute to NIH efforts to develop and sustain a modern biomedical data ecosystem.
Through the STRIDES initiative, NIH and NIH-funded institutions have access to discounts on AWS services such as storage and compute, subsidized AWS training and AWS Enterprise Support, as well as over 12 petabytes of diversified biomedical and life sciences data sets.
Benefits of STRIDES
Discounts on AWS cloud compute and capacity
Discounted AWS Training
Dedicated Solution Architects
What can you accomplish using AWS for your research in the cloud?
Working with labs and institutions around the world, AWS helps scientists and researchers process complex workloads by providing cost-effective, scalable, and secure compute, storage, and database capabilities to accelerate biomedical advances. To learn more, click here
What support is available from AWS, to include training and professional services?
As a member of the STRIDES Initiative, AWS offers the highest level of support called Enterprise Support. AWS Enterprise Support provides 24x7 access to engineers, tools, and technology to help you manage the health of your environment. Additionally, you will receive consultative architectural guidance delivered in the context of your applications and use cases. Access to discounted specialized AWS training and AWS Professional Services.
What discounts are available from AWS?
Significant discounts are available to members of the STRIDES Initiative across all AWS services, including access to specially negotiated service discounts, volume discounts and other cost savings plans like reserved instances.
How to Join STRIDES:
The NIH STRIDES Initiative is open to all NIH funded organizations and institutions. Please refer to the NIH RePORTER tool to determine if your institution is STRIDES eligible. For help, please complete the ‘Contact Us’ section below.
Key Steps to Onboard Your NIH Funded Research Project Under STRIDES:
1. Establish a customer/supplier relationship between your organization and Four Points
2. Determine if a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is required
3. Determine Funding Source (this may vary project by project)
4. Onboard and account creation/transfer
NIH STRIDES Initiative Highlights
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) announced the creation of the Coronavirus Genome Sequence Dataset to support COVID-19 research. The dataset is hosted by the AWS Public Dataset Program and accessible on the Registry of Open Data on AWS, providing researchers quick and easy access to coronavirus sequence data at no cost for use in their COVID-19 research.
The NIH STRIDES Initiative is delighted to announce the launch of the STRIDES-AWS Marketplace!
This Marketplace will provide STRIDES-enrolled participants with discounted access to tools and applications that enable biomedical research in the cloud.
Software and services that help to streamline the end-to-end data science workflow are now available through the STRIDES-AWS Marketplace at a discounted price
Why AWS for Biomedical Research?
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