Case Study: Argentina’s Ministry of Education achieves a secure, scalable 1.2M‑staff national census in 3 weeks with Microsoft Azure

Argentina’s Ministry of Education moves to the cloud to conduct massive staff census

Argentina’s Ministry of Education needed to digitize and run a nationwide census of educational staff covering about 1.2 million principals, teachers, and support staff within a tight October–November window. The existing on‑premises infrastructure and connectivity could not scale to handle the expected simultaneous requests, so the ministry required a high‑availability, secure solution that would support a PHP/PostgreSQL application and meet strict data‑privacy requirements.

The IT team migrated the application to Microsoft Azure with Microsoft’s support, deploying a staged rollout (roster upload for managers, then secure online forms for staff), tuning resources for performance, and maintaining compliance with privacy policies. The result: more than 1.2 million staff submitted data securely and reliably in just three weeks, the team realized infrastructure cost savings, developers found it easy to build and migrate environments, and the ministry continues to use Azure for other projects.

Argentina’s Ministry of Education

Enrique Cambours

Director of Information Technology