Case Study: a leading K-12 education platform saves $100K+ in cloud costs with Buchanan Technologies

a leading K-12 education platform saves $100K+ monthly with Buchanan Technologies

A leading K-12 education platform faced escalating and unpredictable cloud costs, with monthly Azure bills exceeding $100,000. This was due to an inefficient architecture requiring over 300 separate environments for its school districts, which was resource-heavy to maintain and impossible to scale. Buchanan Technologies was engaged to address this challenge.

Buchanan Technologies redesigned the platform's cloud infrastructure by implementing Oracle's Pluggable Database (PDB) model. This solution consolidated the 300+ environments onto just 10 highly efficient servers. The results included over $100,000 in monthly cloud savings, a 90% reduction in infrastructure, and significantly improved application performance and scalability for future growth.