D6.2 Integrating commercial cloud services into the European Open Science Cloud

The HNSciCloud hybrid cloud platform links together commercial cloud service providers and research organisations' in-house IT resources via the GEANT network and, provides innovative solutions for supporting the connection of the reseach infrastructures identified in the ESFRI Roadmap to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). These results provide and innovative vision of how to develop the capacity necessary to support the nascent EOSC intended to create a single digital research space for Europe's 1.8 million researchers.

The document outlines the EOSC rules of participation and technical requirements for onboarding public and commercial services and provided a list of recommendations to encourage the engagement of commercial cloud providers in the EOSC.