U-M has service agreements with three public cloud services providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure.
MiDatabase provides shared or dedicated instances of MS SQL and MySQL, both of which can be easily accessed from the ARC computing resources.
Globus is a robust cloud-based file transfer service designed to move many large files, ranging from 10s of GBs to 10s of TBs. ARC is a Globus Provider for the U-M community, which allows some U-M resources to serve as endpoints for file transfers.