elizabethMay 4

Hey, all! I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts on using AWS servers? This is something my work is considering, but I don't know much about it and am concerned about hosting materials on Amazon-owned infrastructure.

Also, has anyone worked with Agile Humanities? If so, I would love to know if you liked them or any other thoughts.

Show threadPeter B.May 7
@eblack ...are you talking about data-storage (objects, S3) or running active "things" on their infrastructure?
Show threadelizabethMay 7
@p3ter I am basically wondering if there should be any concern for putting digital archival material on an Amazon server. Does that make sense?
Show threadPeter B.May 11

@eblack ...actually the (2) is the most important one:

Because depending on that, you may choose another, possibly smaller, nicer, regional, etc online space provider?

Are we talking "several (hundred) TBs" or below?

Show threadelizabeth
@p3ter I am not great at estimating, but likely below several hundred TBS. We currently have around 3 to 5 TBS of material.
May 11 at 9:12pmWeb
Show threadPeter B.May 12

@eblack Roger that.

Shall your "cloud copy" be your primary pool, or just for backup/access copies?

I haven't done any price-comparisons to AWS, but for example, #Backblaze is a more open (and friendly?) cloud-storage provider:

https://www.backblaze.com/why-backblaze

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Show threadelizabeth6d ago

@p3ter Still working on figuring that out, but leaning towards both (back up and access).

Thanks for the tip on Backblaze! I will look into them more.

Show threadPeter B.6d ago

@eblack Anyways: With any (online) storage provider:

Please check *before* you give them any data, what the terms+conditions are for "getting your data back".
(or migrating them directly to another provider in the future)

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