NEBULA is a Cloud Computing environment developed at NASA Ames Research Center, integrating a set of open-source components into a seamless, self-service platform. It provides high-capacity computing, storage and network connectivity, and uses a virtualized, scalable approach to achieve cost and energy efficiencies.

Nebula
It uses an Amazon Web Services clone called Eucalyptus developed by UCSB. You can read their paper here or visit their website for more info. So it appears to be an alternative to AWS for those in academia. It’s still in Beta and there is no information about whether this will be a pay-for-use service like that at AWS. I welcome anyone using this to let us know their experience.

