Case Study: Monsanto achieves scalable, petabyte-scale geospatial analytics and faster development with Amazon Web Services

Monsanto - Customer Case Study

Monsanto, a Fortune 500 agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company, needed to scale and modernize its petabyte-scale geospatial data platform that houses vector and raster layers, soil and elevation data, maps, and aerial imagery used to generate planting recommendations. Its on-premises data center struggled with rapid growth and highly seasonal, bursty workloads, and the company wanted more elasticity and faster development cycles to let data scientists and developers run large-scale analytics and deliver new features quickly.

Monsanto moved key applications to AWS and adopted Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) as a shared, elastic cloud file system for EC2, allowing automatic scaling of storage and performance and enabling highly parallelized analytics. The move delivered faster provisioning (seconds to minutes versus months), consistent latency and higher availability, simpler management, lower hardware costs, accelerated development and testing, and easier global expansion of its analytics and product platforms.

Monsanto

Vishnu Alavur Kannan

Analytical Technical Platform Lead