Case Study: Clough achieves 70% IT capital-cost and 50% operational-cost reductions with Amazon Web Services

Clough - Customer Case Study

Clough, an Australia‑headquartered engineering and project‑services company serving energy, minerals, water, infrastructure, and power markets worldwide, faced market uncertainty and a wave of international acquisitions. With legacy on‑premises systems and three Australian data centers, Clough needed an agile, global IT platform that could scale quickly, integrate new business units, and shift capital and management effort away from infrastructure.

Working with AWS and partner ASG, Clough migrated its data centers to a secure, highly available cloud environment offering ERP, a mobile app platform, and virtual desktops (Amazon EC2/Amazon WorkSpaces). The move cut IT capital costs by 70% and operational costs by 50%, lowered server costs by 33%, and achieved 99.999% application availability. Clough now deploys new offices in weeks instead of months (one Houston office stood up in one month at one‑tenth the prior IT cost), while engineers gain remote access to tools that improve responsiveness and customer service.

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Emma Whitty

Vice President of IT