Cloud Infrastructure Community Program (CICP)

What does “Cloudforce Multiplier” mean?

The CICP is a community of peers which meets regularly to expand its members’ cloud expertise, capabilities, and capacities.  The CICP benefits IT leaders and their teams through:

• Developing new skills: The CICP community, Internet2 facilitators, and experts from cloud service providers are available to answer questions – big and small – about what your institution wants to do in the cloud.
• Accelerating cloud adoption: Leaders and their teams can offer more to their institution, more quickly thanks to knowledge from the experiences of community peers.
• Sharing technical substance: Deep dives into AWS and GCP cloud services, problem solving, and sharing lessons learned within the community accelerates adoption, increases security, and can save money.
• Amplify your voice: Collective and direct input to AWS and GCP can affect changes with cloud vendors.
• Stronger cloud partner relationships: CICP engagement can drive stronger, more direct and more productive relationships between institutions and their cloud vendors

Benefits Include: 

• Apply CICP training vouchers and discounts to participate in peer training cohorts for cloud certifications, or other skills through Internet2’s Internet2 CLASS program.
• Gain insights into your institution’s cloud deployment by participating in Internet2’s Data Benchmarking project. Compare usage data with peers, find data-driven ways to refine cloud efficiency, and identify leaders in specific cloud services to benefit from their expertise.
• Leverage Internet2 technical consulting. CICP members can receive advice, a second opinion, pointers to resources, introductions to knowledgeable members, and other assistance to ideate on a solution, better understand an approach, or streamline an implementation from Internet2 staff.
• Learn with and from peers and cloud experts through a variety of regularly scheduled calls and activities on topics driven by community interest.
• Confer with AWS and GCP technical experts who actively participate in CICP calls and who are available to share insights, and call upon experts from other parts of their organizations to benefit CICP members.
• Invite your community to participate to maximize your institution’s CICP membership – IT professionals, engineers, researchers, IT leadership, educators and students.

Annual Fees

• There is a one-time $1,000 registration fee for joining the program. If your organization signs the agreement without additional modifications, we will waive this registration fee in recognition of lowering our administrative and legal costs.
• Internet2 may consider a grant award for organizations based on need.

*Multi-Campus Institutions: If your organization comprises institutions with separate Carnegie Classifications, your Annual CICP Fees will be determined by the institution with the highest classification.