GEANT Testbeds Service

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GEANT Testbeds Service Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

connect.geant.org/2020/04/21/amidst-the-covid-19-pandemic-do · GPU cloud · compute/geant-testbeds-service · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: "GTS is currently available to researchers from the European network research community with an endorsement from their local NREN". Quoted on cost: "There are no costs, but there are quotas in place on how many resources you can use." unit none; metered on wall-clock; grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated No cost, but entry needs an endorsement from a national research and education network plus a project description, and quotas are set by the operator, so a person with no NREN affiliation cannot request a VM. source No cost, but entry needs an endorsement from a national research and education network plus a project description, and quotas are set by the operator, so a person with no NREN affiliation cannot request a VM.
Binding	write-gated No cost, but entry needs an endorsement from a national research and education network plus a project description, and quotas are set by the operator, so a person with no NREN affiliation cannot request a VM.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Nothing for an unaffiliated individual. For someone with an NREN endorsement it would be free multi-node testbed compute, which the free public clouds do not offer at any price.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as fails-identity with the door named, which is the point of the record. The GTS page read is dated 2020, so its current status is uncertain: the successor described on clouds.geant.org is a deploy-it-yourself platform for NRENs rather than a service that individuals request. What would settle it is a current GTS page showing whether requests are still accepted in 2026.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	connect.geant.org/2020/04/21/amidst-the-covid-19-pandemic-do	FAQ states GTS is for researchers with an endorsement from their local NREN and that there are no costs but there are quotas, quoted
2026-10-22	clouds.geant.org/news/community-cloud/	the current GEANT community cloud product is software that NRENs and institutions deploy on their own infrastructure, with access through eduGAIN, so an individual cannot join directly

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "grant",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated