Case Study: Firefighter College achieves 30% SQL Server performance improvement and reduced costs with DatAvail's AWS EC2 migration

Firefighter College Improved SQL Server Performance & Reduced Costs with a Move to AWS EC2

Firefighter College was facing high infrastructure costs and limited scalability from an on‑premise SQL Server deployment. DatAvail recommended moving their SQL Server to AWS EC2 and worked with the college to plan a cost‑effective cloud migration.

DatAvail’s Data Engineers executed the migration under their Window Rapid Migration Program, setting up a secure AWS account (IAM, VPC, subnets, security groups), choosing EC2 instance types and storage, deploying load balancers and application servers, configuring VPN connectivity and merge replication, enabling automated S3 backups and CloudWatch monitoring, and providing UAT and ongoing support. As a result, Firefighter College now runs SQL Server on EC2 with a 30% performance improvement, substantial cost savings, and a scalable environment with lower operating expenses.