APTrust

The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to providing both a preservation repository for digital content and collaboratively developed services related to that content. The APTrust repository accepts digital materials in all formats from member institutions, and provides redundant storage in the cloud. It is managed and operated by the University of Virginia.

The Core Service’s compute and storage environment is Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially its S3 and Glacier storage environments.  AWS services are available to APTrust through the University of Virginia’s access to the relevant Internet2 Net+ contract (information about that is available here, and AWS’s information about the security of its cloud services is here).

Documents:

APTrust Services and Fees List

Conditions of Deposit (APTrust-Depositor agreement)

Academic Preservation Trust Governance Manual