Case Study: Seton Hall University achieves rapid, low‑cost streaming and scalable research environments with Amazon Web Services

Seton Hall University - Customer Case Study

Seton Hall University’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Center supports faculty for teaching, training, and research across a 10,000‑student campus. The TLT Center needed a fast, low‑cost way to run pilot projects and stream 10–12 live events a year without diverting IT staff to procure and provision on‑premises servers — for example, broadcasting a last‑minute visit by the UN Secretary‑General and enabling off‑campus users to access a joint data‑gathering platform.

The TLT Center moved streaming and project workloads to AWS (EC2, S3, Wowza, Windows/Linux), running outside campus infrastructure to simplify security, licensing and firewall issues and to speed deployment. AWS Support helped resolve issues quickly; instances were spun up in days (or a single day for the UN event), producing major benefits: roughly $40/month versus an estimated $30,000+/year for on‑premises, much faster time‑to‑market (days instead of a semester), greater flexibility to scale, and readiness to expand into lecture capture and other projects.

Seton Hall University

Michael Soupios

Associate Director