Case Study: Government Housing Agency achieves secure, lower-cost hybrid cloud modernization with Kyndryl and AWS EKS Hybrid Nodes

Government Housing Agency cuts support costs 20% with Kyndryl

A government housing agency was tasked with migrating to a public cloud but held significant concerns over data sovereignty due to the sensitive citizen information it managed. Its Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift, was operating in a complex, air-gapped on-premises environment. The agency partnered with Kyndryl to help migrate to a new platform that would reduce administrative burdens, improve availability, and provide a path to future cloud integration.

Kyndryl migrated the agency's systems to Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, which moved the control plane to AWS as a managed service while keeping sensitive data on-premises. They implemented a GitOps CI/CD pipeline and used Terraform for infrastructure-as-code to automate management and ensure consistency. This solution from Kyndryl resulted in a 20% reduction in support costs, a 35% decrease in administration effort, 99.95% availability for critical services, and the ability to implement new services twice as fast.