Case Study: International Rice Research Institute achieves up to 30% infrastructure cost savings and 99.999% ERP availability with Amazon Web Services

International Rice Research Institute - Customer Case Study

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is a nonprofit founded in 1960 that develops stress‑tolerant rice varieties and supports more than 1,000 staff across 17 rice‑growing countries as a member of the CGIAR consortium. IRRI and partner organizations faced fragmented, on‑premises ERP systems that prevented a single view of operations, limited collaboration, and required a flexible, globally accessible infrastructure to reduce costs and speed development.

IRRI and CGIAR partners migrated to a shared ERP on Amazon Web Services, using Amazon VPC, EC2, S3/EBS, Glacier and phased “assisted build” deployments to standardize processes and support rapid testing and scaling. The move delivered up to 30% savings in infrastructure costs, test environments in hours instead of weeks, 99.999% availability, better global accessibility, and freed funds for research (including genomics and satellite analytics), while ongoing AWS optimization and support continue to improve performance and scalability.

International Rice Research Institute

Marco van den Berg

Chief Information Officer