Written by Andrea Goethals

What we learned by bringing cloud and preservation communities together to discuss portability, sustainability, and shared stewardship of digital heritage.

Photo by Carly Lenz. Panelists representing hyperscale cloud, local infrastructure, and preservation-focused services discuss shared approaches to long-term stewardship at iPRES 2025.

At iPRES 2025 in Wellington, we tried a small experiment. The previous year’s panel, Digital Preservation in the Cloud?,  focused on the views of libraries, archives and universities grappling with whether and how to use cloud infrastructure for digital preservation. It was both skeptical and optimistic, but undeniably thoughtful. One voice, however, was missing: the people who provide that infrastructure.