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  • Commercial Cloud Accounts (AWS Linked Accounts / Azure Subscriptions): Projects pay for all services that run within their commercial cloud accounts. This includes minor costs for EC2 and storage monitoring required by the Science Cloud's ATO, as well as the usage of native tools like AWS Cost Explorer or QuickSight.
  • Research Platform (RP) / JupyterHub: The RP is a JupyterHub SaaS offering running in an OCSDO-funded EKS cluster. While the underlying management infrastructure is free, projects pay for the specific compute and storage services they use for their individual/shared JupyterHub environments.
  • GitLab Runners: While GitLab itself is free, runners used for CI/CD pipelines must be executed in a commercial cloud account, and the project pays for the associated EC2 instance costs.
     

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4. Software Licensing & Specialized Support

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  • Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (AWS): Projects can purchase 12-month AWS Savings Plans or Reserved Instances to lower compute costs. These cannot be purchased directly through the AWS Console.
  • Prerequisites: Purchases require a 12-month commitment, full payment upfront, and funds must already be obligated and allocated to your project.
  • Request Process:
    • The Project PI or Financial POC must submit a request ticket via the Jira Support Portal or by emailing support@sciencecloud.nasa.gov.
    • Science Cloud Financial Operations will work with you to identify the specific instance types, regions, and compute requirements you wish to reserve, and to verify available obligated funds.
    • FinOps will then route the request to Cloud Computing Services (CCS) for final purchase approval and execution.
  • Preferred Pricing Agreements: OCSDO purchases Preferred Pricing Agreements from AWS to reduce costs for services like S3 and CloudFront. The OCSDO absorbs the cost of these agreements, and the lower pricing is passed directly to all Science Cloud projects. No formal request is needed; this is applied automatically.
  • Reseller Discounts: NASA negotiates special pricing and discounts with resellers. These savings are passed directly to all projects (Note: discounts do not apply to Marketplace purchases).
     

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6. Overhead Fees & Support Costs

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