Case Study: Leading Education Company migrates to AWS and slashes environment refresh from 4 weeks to 72 hours with Datavail

How an Education Company Migrated to AWS with Datavail

Leading Education Company, serving 30,000 students worldwide, faced the challenge of migrating a scattered mix of on‑premise and collocated databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS) while meeting fast‑changing higher‑education regulations and shrinking time‑consuming environment refreshes. To gain the necessary cloud and database expertise as well as flexible, on‑demand DBAs, the company engaged DatAvail to plan and execute the migration and ongoing database management.

DatAvail assessed and executed the AWS migration—provisioning Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL, standing up EC2 with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing, implementing Route 53, CloudFormation and CloudWatch, and building redundancy and security best practices. The work reduced environment refreshes from four weeks to 72 hours, migrated about 50 applications (plus 50 nested sub‑applications), eliminated single points of failure, and enabled scalable, monitored operations—outcomes driven and supported by DatAvail.