About CSC

Original Author: Amna Akram
Lastmod: 2025-10-02

Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC) provides IT support and modeling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes and companies in Finland.

Students of Jamk can utilize services of CSC free of charge for coursework and projects. Some of the CSC Cloud services that you will most likely be using are:

  • cPouta = IaaS cloud. cPouta and ePouta are IaaS cloud services, you can create virtual machines and instances
  • Rahti = Container cloud. Rahti is a container orchestration service based on a distribution of Kubernetes called OKD
  • Pukki = Database as a Service. DBaaS running on top of cPouta, based on OpenStack. Currently Pukki supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB.
  • Allas = object storage.

CSC services and their Amazon counterparts:

CSC Service AWS counterpart
cPouta Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Pukki Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rahti Elastic Container Service (ECS) / Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Allas Simple Storage Service (S3)

Read more: