Case Study: Manipal Global Education Services achieves 25% infrastructure cost savings and 99.9% availability with Amazon Web Services

Manipal Global - Customer Case Study

Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) is a global higher-education and training provider that supports more than 400,000 learners through its EduNxt platform and campus operations worldwide. Rapid annual traffic growth (up to 60%) and heavy seasonal peaks for admissions and exams strained its on‑premises data center: slow page loads, 98.5–99% availability with days of downtime, limited disaster recovery for SAP (weeks to recover), long lead times to scale, and high operational cost and complexity.

MaGE adopted a cloud‑first strategy on Amazon Web Services, migrating nine core applications and running ~70% of workloads in AWS and using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and VPC. The move created a virtual data center that scales for peaks (e.g., 100,000 assessment uploads/day, 450,000 daily result hits, 3 million website hits/month), enabled provisioning in hours instead of weeks, raised availability to 99.9%, cut page-load times by 30%, restored SAP in hours for DR, and reduced operational costs by roughly 20–25% while boosting IT agility and innovation.

Manipal Global Education Services

Balakrishna Rao

Chief Information Officer