This is just a reminder that eRA is planning a major undertaking this month, to migrate its modules and data to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud April 17-20 (Fri-Mon).

During this cloud migration, from 7 a.m. on Friday, April 17 to 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20, all eRA modules (eRA Commons, ASSIST, IAR, iEdison, etc.) and all informational websites (era.nih.gov, etc.) will be unavailable.

Any affected due dates will be covered under NIH’s late application policy due to COVID-19, which allows all applications submitted late for due dates between March 9, 2020, and May 1, 2020, to be accepted through May 1, 2020.

Grants.gov will continue processing applications during the migration window.  Applications received via Grants.gov will be put in a queue, and then eRA will process them on Monday night, April 20. The standard 2-day viewing window for successfully submitted applications will be applied.

Note that eRA will be closely monitoring the availability of staff needed to do the migration; please check the eRA Cloud Migration webpage of the eRA website for confirmation of its plans late next week.

Cloud computing provides us with a number of advantages. These include improved security, reliability, and scalability of the system.