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Digital Scholarship Hosting on Amazon Cloud: Emory University's DiSC Projects

Learn how Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) empowers scholars with small experimental projects and complex endeavors on the Amazon Cloud. Explore the benefits and challenges, architecture, and terms.

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Digital Scholarship Hosting on Amazon Cloud: Emory University's DiSC Projects

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  1. Using the Amazon Cloud to host Digital Scholarship Projects Emory University // Robert W. Woodruff Library Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) Jay Varner, @jaysvarner Stewart Varner, @stewartvarner

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  3. The Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC)

  4. Collaborative Projects

  5. DiSC Projects: Small Fast, experimental, cheap. • Empower scholars to do the work themselves • Some home-grown projects

  6. DiSC Projects: Bigger Complex projects, considerable time and/or financial commitment. • Selection Committee • Project Charter • Developer Time

  7. Alternatives

  8. What we are running in AWS • Production • 11 WordPress Sites • 1 Auto publishing script • 1 Twitter Harvest • Dev • Development Sites (WordPressand Django) • Backups • All instances and volumes are backed up in AWS

  9. AWS Terms

  10. AWS Terms BUT DON’T THINK THIS WAY

  11. Architecture • Separate system from software stack

  12. Instance: bare system and service packages • EBS Volume: mounted to instance contains: • Software Stack/Application files • Database files • Configuration files

  13. Pros • Scalability • Low admin overhead • API • Makes experimentation easy and cheap

  14. Cons • Learning curve • Fear • Outages • Variable bill • Domain names/DNS

  15. Thanks! Questions? s3.amazon.aws.com/emorydisc/resources.html stewart.varner@emory.edu // @stewartvarner jay.varner@emory.edu // @jaysvarner

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