Case Study: Pacific Drilling achieves 50% lower SAP TCO and doubled HANA capacity with Amazon Web Services

Pacific Drilling - Customer Case Study

Pacific Drilling, a Houston‑based ultra‑deepwater drilling contractor founded in 2008, faced pressure from volatile oil prices to reduce costs—particularly IT expenses tied to its heavy SAP HANA environment and the specialist support it required. The company needed a more economical, flexible platform to run a broad suite of SAP applications while maintaining performance and operational standards.

Pacific Drilling migrated its SAP landscape to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP on AWS with implementation and 24/7 management by Protera, using Amazon EC2 X1 for HANA, EBS, S3, and AWS networking and monitoring services. The move simplified operations, cut compute, storage, and maintenance costs, and improved resilience and scalability—halving SAP TCO, doubling HANA capacity, and delivering an estimated $1 million in savings over three years.

Pacific Drilling

Yoram Borodaty

IT Manager of Enterprise Applications