The Library has been using Amazon Web Services for the Illinois Library Digital Collections and Illinois Data Bank applications since early 2019. This presentation will share how the Library saves money by using AWS Savings Plans. AWS Savings Plans is just one of the ways Library IT reduces its AWS costs and saves the Library […]
In February 2019 the UIUC Library went live with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementation of the Medusa Collection Registry (medusa.library.illinois.edu), Illinois Data Bank (databank.illinois.edu), and the Library’s Digital Collections (digital.library.illinois.edu). This effort moved over 130 terabytes of digital collections to S3 storage, and implemented the supported web applications using Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), serverless […]
The Illinois Digital Library went live with over 130,000 images in AWS S3 storage this February. The Digital Library uses home-grown dynamic image server software to drive a feature-rich web interface for viewing and manipulating these images. This underlying technology has recently been migrated to AWS’s ECS Fargate serverless platform, which enables the Library to […]