Higher Education
Automate cloud operations across your entire campus — research, central IT, and academics.
Higher Education and Research Customers
Multicloud Operations for Regulated Research, Central IT, and Academics in one place
Kion provides a comprehensive platform to support your institution's research efforts, enhance the academic experience, and secure your institution's overall cloud infrastructure.
With Kion, you can:
- Provision and deprovision cloud accounts with FinOps and compliance guardrails
- Gain financial visibility, automation and guidance across accounts and clouds
- Comply with CMMC, NIST, andHIPPA for grant qualification - with cost and budget enforcements
Regulated Research
A Self-Service Experience with Built-In Guardrails
Provide faculty and researchers with a catalog of preconfigured, multicloud resources tailored to their tasks, aligned with compliance requirements, and tracking against their budget.
Track Spend Against Grants and Other Funding Sources
Attribute spend to specific grants and funding sources, dynamically prioritizing the use of these funds. This approach ensures that grant funds are utilized first before tapping into the central IT budget.
Secure and Compliant by Default
Ensure continuous compliance by monitoring your environment against various standards and proactively setting Cloud Rules to prevent any drift from required specifications.
Central IT
Enable Cloud Adoption for Centralized and Decentralized IT
Kion’s unified multicloud operations platform enables well-architected, well-governed cloud adoption regardless of your IT operating model, whether centralized, decentralized, or a combination of the two.
View and Track Multicloud Costs Against Budgets and Cost Centers
Track your spending from each school/department, and enforce budgets for each team. Attribute that spend back to cost centers, and understand spend types with detailed reporting.
Federated Least-Privileged Access
Map cloud permissions and roles back to users and groups within your identity providers like Microsoft Entra, Okta, and Shibboleth to provide federated least-privileged access across cloud accounts and cloud providers.
Academics
All of the Learning, None of the Risk.
Kion provides guardrails and native access to cloud service providers, ensuring that faculty and students can gain hands-on experience with real cloud tools. Kion’s Cloud Rules restrict access to non-approved or costly services, creating a safe and controlled environment for cloud learning.
Preconfigured Self-Service for Faculty and Students
Simplify cloud access for your academic community with a self-service catalog of approved preconfigured resources. Kion’s platform enables faculty to quickly and easily set up learning environments while ensuring that students access only the resources necessary for their coursework -- all within a secure and compliant framework.
Enforce Budgets and Prevent Overspending
Control your institution’s cloud costs with Kion’s budget enforcement capabilities. Automatically trigger cost controls when thresholds are reached, ensuring that students don’t accidentally run up the bill. Track spending and attribute it back to the appropriate cost center.
“We needed a platform that could handle orchestration, compliance, and financial management, and that's exactly what Kion provides. Kion meets all of our requirements in terms of financial posture, security, management, and business governance.”
– Andrew Marcontell, Executive Director, Solutions Engineering, Texas A&M University
“As we have a single payer account, charging back the sub accounts and the respective research groups has been challenging and arduous. But now, this task has become significantly simplified thanks to Kion, making chargebacks more straightforward.”
– Shruthi Sreenivasa, Assistant Director of Research Computing, Saint Louis University
Certifications
Our Results
10x
Faster cloud account setup and provisioning
30%
Savings, on average, in cloud bills
8,000+
One-click resources to automate compliance and security