National Geographic Society Partners with Amazon Web Services to Bring the Society’s Historic Assets into the Future

As the Society’s new preferred cloud provider, AWS will establish a new media platform to process, store and digitize billions of the organization’s historic media assets, powering the future of digital storytelling

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The National Geographic Society and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today a joint effort to centralize the Society’s assets, supporting its 138-year legacy of exploration and discovery. A major focus will be migrating nearly 15 petabytes of history — from deep sea footage to archeological records — into a customized media platform on AWS Cloud. The partnership ensures the long-term preservation…