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May 04, 2024

Imaging Data Commons (IDC): Now Available Through AWS

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Image from the RTSTRUCT collection in IDC

IDC recently announced a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship program. Through this partnership, IDC is making versioned IDC data available from AWS S3 buckets.

Learn more on the AWS site about this sponsorship.

Researchers can now choose to download IDC data from either the Google Cloud Computing Services or the AWS storage location, depending on compute needs and preferences. IDC has updated its data download instructions and its Getting Started tutorials to explain how researchers can choose the source of downloading IDC data.