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NET+ Kion delivers control, context, and actionable insight to help you centrally manage innovation in AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.

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Eligible Subscribers Include:

A higher education member of Internet2, an affiliate member of Internet2, a non-profit institution of higher education in the United States, a K-12 educational institution, library, museum, any other not-for-profit organization in the United States that in Internet2’s reasonable judgment has or facilitates a research or educational mission.

Multi-Cloud Enablement Made Simple

Kion, a leading cloud enablement solution provider, brings important capabilities to the NET+ Services portfolio. Research and Education institutions can use NET+ Kion for automation and orchestration, financial management, and continuous compliance for cloud enablement across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

NET+ Kion enables institutions to manage and optimize their public cloud environments via a private, self-hosted architecture that gives control across one, two, or three cloud platforms – regardless of contract or reseller used.

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NET+ Kion Offers:

Automation of CloudOps with policy-based identity, provisioning, FinOps, and compliance for multicloud. But, Kion delivers more than just the features to manage and govern your cloud deployments. Learn more about how Kion gives you a comprehensive solution for your cloud to enable your organization to achieve more. Go farther, faster in the cloud.

Automation and Orchestration helps you save hours with effortless cloud account setup, access, and control.

  • Get organization-wide visibility into accounts across one or more cloud environments
  • Automate the provisioning of accounts with the proper controls around allowed services and budget
  • Integrate with leading SIEM, CI/CD pipeline, and ITSM solutions
  • Implement automated actions based on enforcements or workflows
  • Automate incident response

Financial Management helps you control cloud costs with budget enforcement and savings opportunities.

  • Use built-in checks to identify over-provisioned and unused resources to rightsize or decommission, helping you save 30% or more on your cloud bill
  • Leverage visual indicators to alert users of spending in excess of plan
  • Implement automated actions to freeze spending or downsize instances
  • Take advantage of project-level allocation using unique funding sources mapped to grants, internal/external cost centers, or budgets
  • Get a near real-time view of cloud spend to understand the top cost drivers

Continuous Compliance helps you navigate the cloud confidently with proactive and reactive controls.

  • Leverage 8,000+ built-in compliance checks that make it easier to adhere to best practices like CIS, NIST CSF, PCI, 800-53, and 800-17
  • Get Day-1 – and beyond – proactive guardrails to enforce the use of approved cloud services, configurations, and regions
  • Use on-demand or scheduled checks for continual feedback to spot trends and assess real-time compliance posture
  • Auto-remediate to fix misconfigurations like public resources, misconfigured security groups, or abandoned access keys
  • Integrate with CI/CD and configuration management workflows to manage and deploy security policies

All this and more at significantly reduced pricing for the research and education community. (NET+ Kion pricing and custom negotiated contract available upon request).

Find out how the community evaluated Kion for NET+ and is using it for cloud enablement by visiting the NET+ Kion wiki page.

View Kion’s Cloud Scorecard for a snapshot of how this provider meets the needs and compliance requirements of research and education institutions.

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Early Adopters

  • Indiana University – James Bennett
  • Northwestern University – Matthew Rich
  • Penn State University – Jamal Tate
  • Princeton University – Mark Ratliff
  • University of Maryland – Baltimore County – Tim Champ
  • University of Maryland – Baltimore County – Todd Haddaway
  • Old Dominion University – John Pratt
  • St. Louis University – Shruthi Sreenivasa Murthy
  • St. Louis University – Maureen Donlin
  • Texas A&M University – Joseph Rafferty
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – Tim Morgan
  • University of Illinois, Chicago – Dean Dang
  • Illinois Institute of Technology – Mike Gosz
  • University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management – Brad Kaufman
  • University of Maryland – Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) – Ray Boatwright
  • Kion (partner liaison) – Randy Shore
  • Internet2 (staff support) – Bob Flynn
  • Internet2 (staff support) – Nidhi Yadav

Program Information

Eligible Subscribers: A higher education member of Internet2, an affiliate member of Internet2, a non-profit institution of higher education in the United States, a K-12 educational institution, library, museum, any other not-for-profit organization in the United States that in Internet2’s reasonable judgment has or facilitates a research or educational mission.
Sponsors: Penn State (Pennsylvania State University, The)
Email: netplus@internet2.edu
Contact: Nidhi Yadav

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