Northwestern faculty, staff, and researchers can request a new public cloud account by emailing consultant@northwestern.edu or assigning a ticket directly to the NUIT-CI-CloudOps team in Footprints.
When submitting a request, please include the following information:
- Cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
- Account owner affiliation (University school or department)
- Billing contact NetID
- Technical contact NetID
- Estimated spend in account for current fiscal year
- Brief description (one or two sentences) of intended use of the account
- For NIH-funded research, please include an NIH grant number for eligibility for the STRIDES program (AWS and GCP only)
The Northwestern IT Cloud Operations team will reply and help you:
- Obtain a quote from the provider/reseller
- Create a purchase order in NUFinancials
- Configure your access to the account