Context
The WEkEO DIAS platform provides free access to Copernicus and Earth Observation (EO) data alongside cloud computing tools.
Creating a WEkEO account (Free) gives you full access to data downloads, hosted JupyterHub environments, and personal cloud storage at no cost. For projects requiring more computing power, custom software environments, or high-throughput batch processing, WEkEO offers three additional computing plans.
🔍 To discover everything included with your free registration, see WEkEO account features and How to create a WEkEO account?
Available plans
Depending on your scientific, operational, or commercial requirements, you can scale your compute resources with the following plans.
Here are some details on the additional plans WEkEO provides and that you can find on this page:
Innovation Lab (Free)
This free programme is open to all WEkEO users from Copernicus Member States and Participating Countries. It offers cloud computing resources at no cost for innovative, interdisciplinary projects that benefit the economy, society, or the environment. Selected applicants get access to virtual machines, fast WEkEO data, Sentinel data, and GPUs if needed.
Virtual Machines (Paid)
Extends the Essential plan capabilities by procuring additional computing resources on virtual machines in the cloud. This plan opens the doors to virtual processing environments with fast access to data accessible through WEkEO, virtual machines with GPU and also enables a direct access to Copernicus Sentinel data. The price of the plan is based on a system "Pay-as-you-use” or fixed term prices. You can check all the advantages of the Virtual Machines plan.
HPC solutions (Paid)
Breaks compute limitations on individual virtual machines by procuring resources on a High Performance Computing (HPC) platform. This plan gives you access to a total of 98.560 Cores and 120 NVDIA A100 Graphic Cards, a twelve fast 200Gbps Infiniband links for data access with very low latency, high speed access to the EODC storage, including over 10PB of Copernicus data, and direct access to Copernicus Sentinel data.
💡 WEkEO Pro Tip: in order to subscribe to these plans, we invite you to read check how to upgrade your plan.
To learn more about plans, you can refer to the corresponding documentation in the next section. Additionally, you will find the appropriate point of contact for any inquiries or requests for a custom plan.
Documentation and contact
This table summarizes where to find the matching documentation and the point of contact according to your plan:
WEkEO plan | Documentation | Point of contact |
Default (Free) | WEkEO Help Center | WEkEO User Support |
Innovation Lab (Free)* | WEkEO User Support | |
Virtual Machines (Paid) | Cloudferro documentation | |
HPC solutions (Paid) | EODC documentation | Request information button in plan's page |
💡WEkEO Pro Tip: users subscribed to the Virtual Machines (Paid) plan have access to the appropriate user support via the "Tickets" option (more info).
⚠️ The Innovation Lab (Free) is open to eligible WEkEO users. Projects are evaluated on innovation, relevance, feasibility, and impact.
Comparison table
The table below outlines all the available features for these plans:
Feature | WEkEO account (Free) | Virtual Machines (Paid) |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
Access to User Support | ✅ | ✅ |
✅ | ✅ | |
❌ | ✅ | |
❌ | ✅ | |
Faster access to data via HDA | ❌ | ✅ |
No cost for traffic in and out* | ❌ | ✅ |
Unlimited number of requests | ❌ | ✅ |
Instant access to new uploaded data | ❌ | ✅ |
Faster data processing | ❌ | ✅ |
Full scalability capacity with GPUs** | ❌ | ✅ |
*Under the limit of 100TB/month
**Contact wekeo-sales@thalesaleniaspace.com for custom requests
What's next?
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