A global education provider migrated its data center and re-platformed databases to AWS to enhance scalability, reduce costs, and improve performance. The migration involved moving multiple applications to AWS, re-architecting workloads using Amazon EKS, and transitioning from Oracle to PostgreSQL on AWS RDS. Challenges included managing complex, tightly coupled applications and ensuring seamless cloud enablement. The migration reduced infrastructure costs by 31%, improved economies of scale by 62%, and achieved 99.99% server availability. By leveraging AWS services like Jenkins for CI/CD, Snowball for large data transfers, and AWS Kafka for messaging, the organization improved agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.

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