Jean Phillips
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Scholarship
Florida State University
Louis Brooks
Head of Systems
Florida State University
Favenzio Calvo
Director of Software Development
Florida State University
In 2017 the Florida State University Libraries moved their mission-critical services to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This included the website, EZproxy and all backups. This was done to improve the continuity of services and disaster recovery while reducing costs associated with hosting these services locally. In year three we used our experience to redesign these services into our 2.0 architecture, further improving our disaster recovery response and lowering costs. In this presentation, we will discuss what we did to be successful in moving these services to the cloud and the mistakes we made that you can avoid. We will also discuss our plans to transition our digital repository and research data repositories to the cloud.
