So you’ve decided you need a digital repository, and you’ve chosen DSpace. Here’s how to host it in Amazon’s cloud.
DSpace is a reasonable choice, and it happens to be the least finicky and most modern out of its handful of competitors. But where to host it? Because it requires a Tomcat or other Java servlet environment, you can’t just toss it up in your average commodity hosting service. The next best bet is to get a cheap virtual machine, and Amazon is the place I chose. Here’s what I did. …