cloud-platform.md

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title: <i class="fas fa-cloud"></i>Helmholtz Cloud
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    Announcement of Helmholtz Cloud.
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## What is the Helmholtz Cloud?
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The upcoming Helmholtz Cloud will initially consist of approximately 20 of 25 services.

#### How can I access it? And when?
It is the purpose of HIFIS to allow a common, harmonized access to Helmholtz Cloud services via 
a single portal -- the Cloud Access Layer: 
and Single-Sign-On (SSO). 
The initial set of services as well as the first version of the access layer is scheduled to be available by end of 2020. 

[**See also our roadmap**](roadmap).

#### What are the plans for the Cloud Access Layer?
The initial version of the Cloud Access Layer is planned to be kept simple but already allow for one of the most important features, the single-sign on funcionality.
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* three

Later versions may contain...
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* six

## Contact us:
`contact-at-hifis.net`