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The European Weather Cloud (EWC) is connecting the cloud environments of ECMWF and EUMETSAT into a larger entity, providing seamless unified access to online data, functions, and services from both organisations. The key feature of he the EWC is the provisioning of data proximate computing facilities to the meteorological community to boost their developments .and potentially support their operational services

The EWC is available for Member and Co-Operating States of EUMETSAT and ECMWF for Official Duty Use (NMHS, or groups of NMHSs, and other nominated organisations carrying official duties), as well as a number of identified purposes in support of EUMETSAT and ECMWF's mission (e.g. usage by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facilities, or in the context of specific annual R&D calls or calls for special projects).

The service consists of cloud resources provided by EUMETSAT and ECMWF and controlled by a cloud management software. Users can deploy and manage their virtual machines (VM) resources and the application environment environments to both clouds cloud infrastructures  (EUMETSAT and ECMWF) regardless of the location of their tenancy location.cloud tenancy (any of the cloud infrastructures)

Users deploy their own applications and are responsible of the maintenance and the application environment operated in the EWC. Terms and Conditions including eligibility to use the service, roles, and responsibilities are available at: Terms and Conditions for the Use of European Weather Cloud Operational Service

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