Case Study: St Luke’s Anglican School achieves near‑100% infrastructure availability and major cost savings with Amazon Web Services

St Luke’s Anglican School - Customer Case Study

St Luke’s Anglican School is a K–12 school near Bundaberg with about 820 students that had been running core systems (including the web‑based TASS.web administration system and parts of its public website) on a virtualized on‑premises data center. Slow website performance (exacerbated by an expensive Japan host), frequent power outages, and a severe 2013 flood that disrupted operations exposed risks to continuity, data loss, and constrained IT staff time, so the school sought an affordable, scalable cloud solution with stronger disaster‑recovery capabilities.

St Luke’s migrated its website and TASS.web to AWS (hosting the site in the Sydney Region on EC2 with Route 53 and S3, and running TASS.web on EC2 within an Amazon VPC with VPN connectivity, daily S3 backups and IAM controls). The move delivered near‑100% availability, enabled electronic roll calls and a virtual campus for emergencies, cut website latency from 160 ms to 20 ms, and set the school up to reduce capital costs by an estimated 75% and data‑center operating costs by about 40% while freeing IT staff to focus on proactive projects.

St Luke’s Anglican School

Mitch Miller

IT Manager