Case Study: Digital ReLab achieves faster cloud onboarding and 40% lower TCO with Amazon Web Services

How Digital ReLab Enables Digital-Asset Management Using Amazon EFS

Digital ReLab, a Virginia-based developer of the Starchive digital-asset management (DAM) platform, helps media organizations organize, transcode, and monetize large audio and video collections. Faced with petabyte-scale file stores and clients generating up to 5 TB of content per day, the company needed to move its on‑premises, monolithic software to the cloud without a full rewrite to gain cost-effective scalability and manageability.

By building on AWS (Amazon EC2, S3, Auto Scaling) and adopting Amazon EFS as a shared file system, Digital ReLab retained a single codebase for on‑premises and cloud deployments, cut about six months of development time, and avoided overprovisioning storage. The change reduced total cost of ownership by roughly 40%, enabled scalable transcoding and rapid client onboarding, unified access across diverse storage backends, and freed the team to experiment with containers and serverless architectures.

Digital ReLab

Nate Casey

Vice President, Product Strategy