Case Study: Advanced Survey Design, LLC (ASD) achieves 50% cost reduction and dramatic security improvements with Amazon Web Services (AWS GovCloud (US))

AWS GovCloud (US) Helps ASD Cut Costs by 50% while Dramatically Improving Security

Advanced Survey Design (ASD), founded in 2005, provides anonymous, real-time organizational safety and climate surveys for DoD and allied customers including the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, NASA, VA, and the RAF. As a small business handling sensitive military data, ASD needed strong information security and scalable infrastructure; their prior dedicated-hosting setup risked third‑party access to customer data and could not reliably scale for large survey events.

ASD migrated to AWS GovCloud (US), which restricts access to screened U.S. persons and meets ITAR, FedRAMP, and DoD SRG requirements, eliminating host‑side access concerns. The move cut costs by more than 50%, dramatically improved security, increased capacity to over 2,500 respondents per hour, and delivered better overall site performance, meeting customer compliance expectations.

Advanced Survey Design, LLC (ASD)

Michael Schimpf

Vice President of Operations