RESOURCE: Using The Amazon Cloud to Host Digital Scholarship Projects

In this video from the Coalition for Networked Information, Stewart Varner and Jay Varner (Emory University) discuss the opportunities and challenges of implementing Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host digital scholarship projects. Using Amazon’s EC2 creates new possibilities for scholars to experiment with digital projects that often are not possible through institutional or private web hosting.

Author: Caro Pinto

Librarian & Instructional Technology Liaison
Mount Holyoke College