Case Study: NASA Image and Video Library achieves scalable, unified access to 140,000+ media with Amazon Web Services

NASA Image and Video Library - Customer Case Study

NASA, the U.S. civil space agency, needed a simple way for the public to find and download its vast collection of photos, videos, and audio—previously spread across about 60 collections at 10 different field centers with inconsistent metadata and duplicate records. Early attempts to aggregate content produced poor search results and a bad user experience, and NASA wanted a scalable, cost-effective solution that avoided new data-center investments.

InfoZen built a cloud-native NASA Image and Video Library on AWS, using a common metadata standard, a responsive front end, APIs for automated uploads, and scalable services for storage, search, transcoding, and queuing. Launched in 2017, the centralized site made 140,000+ assets easily discoverable, improved accessibility (Section 508 compliance), handled traffic spikes on demand, and reduced infrastructure costs by paying only for cloud resources used.

NASA Image and Video Library

Bryan Walls

Imagery Experts Deputy Program Manager