Challenges
- Rapidly expanding global user base
- Disruptive innovation in educational technology and pedagogical practices
- Accelerating workload straining application architecture and infrastructure deployment
- Multiple service providers
- Significant performance, security and compliance requirements
Solutions
- AWS focused architecture to leverage global capabilities
- Distributed instances for availability, global performance, and load balancing
- Single pane of glass for monitoring to enable rapid identification and isolation of issues
- Cloud-native application refactoring for scalability, resiliency, and transparency
- Application Performance Management practices implementation
- Service management organization for high availability
Results
- Reduced availability incidents
- Improved user experience and performance from global deployments
- Reusable application architectures based on approved reference architectures
- Improved agility through application migration to the public cloud
- Increased scalability and manageability
- Reduced total cost of ownership
- Decreased time to market for new services