NIH STRIDES benefits (web)
Citation
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Data Science Strategy. “Benefits.” STRIDES Initiative web page, date not stated. https://cloud.nih.gov/about-strides/benefits. Read 2026-11-09. Copy: raw/web/2026-11-09 NIH STRIDES benefits.html.
Bottom line
- The NIH STRIDES Initiative gives NIH units and NIH-funded institutions discounted cloud services from its partners, with training, professional services and technical support.
- At present it supports projects that move data to the cloud and compute on it there.
Background
STRIDES is an initiative of the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy. It is a route to commercial cloud partners for biomedical research. This page lists four benefits. The site also has enrollment, training and partner pages, which the library does not have.
Key claims
- “Discounts on STRIDES Initiative partner services—Favorable pricing on computing, storage, and related cloud services for NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) and NIH-funded institutions.” (Benefits)
- “Professional services—Access to professional service consultations and technical support from the STRIDES Initiative partners.” (Benefits)
- “Training—Access to training for researchers, data owners, and others at a discounted rate to help ensure optimal use of available tools and technologies.” (Benefits)
- “Potential collaborative engagements—Opportunities to explore methods and approaches that may advance NIH’s biomedical research objectives” (Benefits)
- “At this time, the STRIDES Initiative supports programs/projects that want to prepare, migrate, upload, and compute data in the cloud.” (Benefits)
Evidence and method
A federal agency program page. It lists benefits. It gives no discount rates, no partner names and no usage figures.
Limits
- The page does not name the cloud partners or the size of the discounts.
- It does not say how an institution enrolls. The enrollment page has that; the library does not have it.