Using AWS Savings Plans to Reduce Cloud Expenses at the University Library

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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 […]

Medusa AWS Project Presentation

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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 […]