The Cloud: Obstacles and Barriers Encountered By Users

<p>Increasing exposure to and adoption of the Earthdata Cloud yields new concerns from users. Obstacles and barriers encountered by users include: financial resource allottment, steep learning curves, insitutional support, and cloud-readiness of data.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We present common concerns expressed by early cloud adopters, and encourage conference-goers to relay their own or users' experiences. </p> <p><br></p> <p>We also encourage brainstorming for how open science principles can help solve some of the barriers and obstacles users encouter with the cloud.  </p>