The state service bwCloud SCOPE (Science, Operations and Education) provides virtualized server and application infrastructures as a cloud service for employees, scientists and students at universities and colleges in Baden-Württemberg. bwCloud can operate over 1,000 virtual machines with individual operating systems and software at each operating location. The service runs on dedicated server systems at the four operating sites in Mannheim, Ulm, Freiburg and Karlsruhe - that is a total of at least 4,000 virtual machines for the distributed operation of servers and applications, enough resources for numerous projects.