At this time of crisis, CISPE and the cloud infrastructure industry stand ready to serve the public sector and citizens across Europe. The COVID-19 initiatives, including free offerings by members of CISPE listed below are available to EU institutions, national governments and businesses
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Updated: 31 March 2020
| Company | Service or Initiative Name | Delivered Service & Main features | Targeted users | Special Offer (ex. Free, x% rebate, etc.) | Service Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS Outscale | Secured Cloud Computing Services | Cloud IaaS: Compute/Storage/Network/SecurityFully ISO/SecNumCloud/Health Data certified | ISVs, Startups, Public Organizations | Free within the "actforlife" program | Link |
| Amazon Web Services | Solutions that facilitates remote working and learning: Amazon Workspaces for virtual desktops that can be accessed anywhere, Amazon WorkDocs for easy collaboration with others, Amazon Chime for online meetings, chats and video calls, Amazon Connect to set up a call or contact centre in the cloud, with the agents working from home, Amazon AppStream to deliver desktop applications to any computer, Amazon Client VPN to set up secure connections to your networks from anywhere | Everyone | Many of the services listed below have special offers designed to make it easier to get started at no charge or are already available under the AWS Free Tier. | Link | |
| Amazon Web Services | AWS Diagnostics Development Initiative | Program to support customers who are working to bring better, more accurate, diagnostics solutions to market faster and promote better collaboration across organizations that are working on similar problems | Customers working on improving diagnostics solutions | Committing an initial investment of $20 million to accelerate diagnostic research, innovation, and development to speed our collective understanding and detection of COVID-19 and other innovate diagnostic solutions to mitigate future infectious disease outbreaks. Funding will be provided through a combination of AWS in-kind credits and technical support to assist our customers’ research teams in harnessing the full potential of the cloud to tackle this challenge. | Link |
| CoreTech | Sygma Connect | Remote PC access like TeamViewer | Government, school, companies | Free for all emergency time COVID-19 | Link |
| Gigas Hosting | COVID-19 Emergency | Cloud Datacenter | NGO's | Free cloud infrastructure for NGO's apps or webs to suport specific campaigns related to Coronavirus emergency. Project started with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency | Link |
| Gigas Hosting | COVID-19 data matters | Cloud Datacenter | Clients offering info related to COVID-19 | Free cloud infrastructure for webs and apps that provide info related to COVID-19. A dashboard is being developed to track the pandemia globally but more specifically in Mexico, in collaboration with a BI partner. | Soon to go live |
| Gigas Hosting | Supporting our minds | Cloud Datacenter | Clients offering free services for COVID-19 affected people and companies | Free cloud infrastructure for webs and apps that provide free services to help companies and individuals affected by COVID-19. Initiative that provides psycological support and coaching to COVID-19 affected individuals is being launched through partner. | Link |
| Gigas Hosting | Close to our clients | Cloud Datacenter | Latam clients paying in USD | 20% special discount on the monthly invoice to offset Latam currency depreciations vs. USD | |
| Gigas Hosting | Close to our clients | Cloud Datacenter | Clients: Specially affected SMEs and/or sectors | Extension of payment periods, grace periods and free temporary service for affected clients in sensitive sectors such as retail or tourism, or SME's experiencing difficulties due to COVID-19 | |
| Ikoula | Ikoula Cloud Backup by Acronis | Telework shakes up habits and behaviors. This can lead to forgetting to save your files, and as a consequence, this can lead to creating a risk for the company. To overcome this during this difficult period, IKOULA provides a free backup solution of 5 GB. This BaaS solution (Backup as A Service) allows everyone to back up and restore all of their data, without time or place constraints. | All type of companies | 5GB offered, with the code backupme | Link Link |
| Ikoula | Cloud Ikoula one & one click applications | When a whole company suddenly finds itself in telework, daily work and inter-service & inter-employee communication can be compromised. Using Cloud Computing to deploy instances, hosting open-source applications such as RocketChat for instant messaging, OpenOffice for office automation or Jitsi, and Jami for videoconferencing will restore the links inside the company and increase efficiency. IKOULA provides for free its Cloud Solution and its One Click applications during the confinement period. | All type of companies | €100 offered, when a Cloud IKOULA One account is created More than 50 One Click pre-installed Apps, ready-to-use in less than 3 minutes | Link |
| Ikoula | Synology Server | In order to share files in the best possible way (with LogicalDoc for example or with SynologieDrive), to broadcast video and to use many other applications in complete safety, IKOULA offers during the confinement period a professionnal Synology DS115j server. | All type of companies | 1 Synology DS155j server for free during one month, with the code IKOULASYNO | Link Link |
| Ikoula | Raspberry PI4 Microserver | In support of small entrepreneurs or freelancers, who sometimes could feel less supported, because they're on their own everyday, IKOULA offers them a microserver during the crisis. This versatile and brand new machine will be perfect for files storage, to host a website during, or to create a VPN. | Freelancers, small companies | 1 Raspberry PI 4 microserver for free during one month, with the code IKRASP | Link |
| Netalia | SIMCOVID | Decision Support System - modeling of COVID-19's spread | Public authorities, Health agencies, Health managers | Netalia is a partner of the project, together with Helpy S.r.l., SPX Lab and the University of Genoa - the service will be provided by Netalia's cloud infrastructure | |
| Netalia | Dr. Link | Telemonitoring (transmission of patient clinical data, i.e. respiratory-rate, heart-rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature) | Patient, Health workers | Netalia is a partner of the project, together with Italtel S.p.A.- the service will be provided by Netalia's cloud infrastructure | |
| Netalia | iorestoacasa | Videocall solution | Remote workers | 1 server made available for free | Link |
| OVHcloud | #Open_solidarity initiative | Free of charge SaaS solutions hosted on OVHcloud infrastructure | Remote workers, institutions, pupils and general public. | Free and with no engagement for the duration of the crisis | Link |
| OVHcloud | Telephone conference calls | It can be difficult to move to work remotely and communicate simultaneously with a number of people. Get them all on the same conference call. | All | Free of charge up to 50 users | Link |
| OVHcloud | Mass SMS distribution solution | Need to reach out to remote workers quickly and efficiently? We can support you via our platform, with our SMS solutions (a renewable pack of 1,000 SMS messages). | All | 1,000 free Text Messages (SMS) pack. Renewable. | Link |
| OVHcloud | EmailPro | Need secure email exchanges, with a custom email address? Try the Email Pro solution. | SMEs | Free of charge | Link |
| OVHcloud | Dedicated Servers | We offer several ranges of high-performance, versatile dedicated servers that suit the most resource-intensive requirements, and handle traffic spikes for your infrastructure. | All | The infrastructures are free of charge for services providers and on a zero-commitment basis for the entire duration of the crisis, to handle traffic spikes. | Link |
| OVHcloud | Private Cloud | Our Private Cloud combines the scalability of the cloud with a 100%-dedicated hardware infrastructure. Infrastructure virtualisation is powered by VMware technology, and entirely managed by OVHcloud. | All | The infrastructures are free of charge for services providers and on a zero-commitment basis for the entire duration of the crisis, to handle traffic spikes. | Link |
| OVHcloud | Public Cloud | The OVHcloud Public Cloud offers a wide range of cloud solutions, billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Use the OpenStack API or our own OVHcloud Control Panel to manage your cloud services, including storage, instances, volumes, Managed Kubernetes, Spark-as-a-Service, and much more. | All | The infrastructures are free of charge for services providers and on a zero-commitment basis for the entire duration of the crisis, to handle traffic spikes. | Link |
| Scaleway | ensemble.jitsi | Visio-conference | Enterprises, Associations, Citizens | Free of charge | Link |
| Scaleway | EducNat Ensemble | Visio-conference | Administrative follow-up of French National Education agents | Free of charge | Link |