Case Study: Federal Government Agency reduces AWS costs and frees 25% of IT time with Commvault

Federal Government Agency Cuts AWS Costs, Eases Cloud Migration

A major federal agency in Washington, D.C., responsible for protecting classified, secret and top-secret data faced a looming migration to Amazon Web Services and mounting pressure from frequent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The lean IT team was overwhelmed by data preparation work, struggled to respond quickly to FOIA demands, and was frustrated with the cost, complexity, and support of its incumbent backup solution.

The agency deployed Commvault Complete Data Protection along with Commvault File Storage Optimization and eDiscovery & Compliance to analyze, classify, and secure data at scale. This cut the cloud footprint by hundreds of terabytes and reduced AWS costs, automated backup and recovery, lowered cyber risk by properly classifying sensitive data, and enabled secure delegation of FOIA responses—freeing an estimated 25% of the IT team’s time.