Case Study: Fugro Roames reduces annual vegetation-management costs from AU$100M to AU$60M with Amazon Web Services

Fugro - Customer Case Study

Fugro Roames, spun out from Ergon Energy, provides aerial data capture and 3D modeling to help utilities manage overhead powerline networks and vegetation clearance across vast, remote areas. The business outgrew its on‑premises data center within months — facing cooling, I/O and scaling limits that prevented it from meeting peak processing windows and made infrastructure headroom prohibitively expensive, putting timely reporting and maintenance prioritization at risk.

Fugro Roames migrated its entire stack to AWS, using Direct Connect, Amazon VPC, S3, EC2 (On‑Demand/Reserved/Spot), DynamoDB, SQS, Glacier, Redshift, CloudFront and ELB to scale storage and compute elastically. Leveraging EC2 Spot Instances cut heavy‑compute costs to about one‑eighth of On‑Demand pricing, enabling faster analytics, 95% lower technology capital costs, >99.999% availability, elimination of a dedicated infra team, and real outcomes such as reducing Ergon Energy’s annual vegetation‑management cost from AU$100M to AU$60M, rapid disaster response, and faster global expansion.

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Josh Passenger

Technical Architect