Case Study: Airlock Digital achieves 30% performance gains and up to 40% cost savings with Canonical Ubuntu on Azure

Airlock Digital boosts operational performance on Azure by 30% with an OS and support model that 'just works'

Airlock Digital, a cybersecurity company providing application control software, faced a significant challenge when the CentOS 7 operating system powering their Azure-based solution reached its end of life. They needed a new, secure, and fully Azure-compatible OS that could support their critical infrastructure without requiring a complex migration or excessive internal resources.

Canonical provided the solution by migrating Airlock Digital to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Ubuntu Pro on Azure, which included 24/7 support and Livepatch for restartless updates. The migration of over 600 production machines was completed in under 45 days. As a result, Airlock Digital achieved a 30% increase in operational performance and realized cost savings of 30-40%, all while gaining a stable, long-term platform with streamlined billing through Azure.

Airlock Digital

Daniel Schell

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder