European Weather Cloud: a federation
Following decision by their respective Councils in December 2018, ECMWF and EUMETSAT have joined forces to set up a federated Cloud Computing infrastructure focused on meteorological data. The vision is to establish a “European Weather Cloud” to serve the European Meteorological Infrastructure and its users and customers. Services Services provided will range from delivery of weather forecast data to the provision of computing and storage resources, support and expert advice.A pilot phase of two years started in 2019, aiming at allowing to test in real conditions how such a platform can be best operated, how governance, security and legal aspects can be organised.
Access to the cloud resources
During the pilot phase, only a representative group of use cases are selected to participate. The service will be opened up once the pilot phase is over. If you are working on on of the selected use cases, please liaise with the person responsible for itThe service is open for authorised users coming from the European Meteorological Infrastructure, including ECMWF and EUMETSAT Member and Cooperating states as well as EUMETNET. If you would like to use it, please do reach us via the European Weather Cloud Support Portal or get in touch with corresponding Computing Representative in your Member or Cooperating State.
The portal: Morpheus
The service is provided by Morpheus, an appliance capable of orchestrating many clouds. Each member of the federation offers a different door, or Morpheus instance, to access the federated cloud services through a dedicated portal.
Tenants
Each project with access to the European Weather Cloud is called a Tenant. Tenants are isolated environments with unique users and workloads, with no access or visibility to other tenants in the same infrastructure.
Clouds
Every partner in the European Weather Cloud Federation makes available their infrastructure to the users. Each one of them is seen as a Cloud in Morpheus. Regardless if your tenant is set up at ECMWF, EUMETSAT or any other partner, from your account you may provision in any of the clouds configured.
