Case Studies

The Challenge

• The technology team at Savana wanted to migrate their fleet of Windows workloads to an enterprise-grade cloud platform while reducing their infrastructure costs, taking advantage of bundled Microsoft licensing, and improving their overall security posture
• Reduce hardware and database management overhead on a subset of their SQL Server databases, while retaining support for preexisting authentication methods.Savana needed to achieve better fault tolerance for their Windows applications, including improved traffic visibility and protection against web attacks.
• Implement a centralized way to gather operational insights and automate routine management tasks like patches and deployment.

The Solution

• Migrating to Microsoft Solutions on AWS with EC2 and RDS
• Leveraging AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AWS RDS for SQL Server allowed Savana to integrate Windows Authentication with their onpremises Active Directory
• Integrating EC2 instances with AWS Systems Manager for remote PowerShell administration and automation, combined with Patch Manager, CloudWatch, and Maintenance Windows helped Savana achieve the operational management desired on AWS.

Results

• Centralize Authentication – Deploying AWS Managed AD reinforces security requirements across RDS, EC2 and on-prem deployments.
• Improved Governance – Integrating AWS Systems Manager added operational automation with better visibility and control.
• Optimizaton – Running Windows on AWS EC2 optimized resource efficiency and offload Windows license management, while lowering cost.

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