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University of Pretoria – AWS WAFR and Migration

About the Customer

University of Pretoria is one of the top research institutions in Africa and its mission is to be a leading research-intensive university in Africa. It has been recognized internationally for its quality, relevance and impact, as well as for developing people, creating knowledge and making a difference locally and globally.

The Challenge

The University was hosting their web applications on co-located and on-prem infrastructures and often experienced downtime. The University also was incurring high capex and co-location costs.

To deliver a world-class digital presence that reflected the University of Pretoria’s mission, Silicon Overdrive was asked to solve issues related to availability, scalability and security for their web applications.

The Solution

The University of Pretoria approached Silicon Overdrive to improve the security and performance of its website. Silicon Overdrive’s AWS certified engineers ran an assessment of the current environment against the AWS Well-Architected Framework and security best practices. The outcome was to architect and build out an entirely new environment using AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management and Amazon EFS to meet University of Pretoria’s needs to ensure high availability, security and compliance.

Costs were significantly reduced on migrating to AWS. Right sizing and leveraging Reserved Instances reduced these costs further.

The Outcome

Silicon Overdrive architected and built out the University of Pretoria’s infrastructure according to AWS and security best practices to meet the University’s requirements for a cost optimized, high availability, secure and compliant hosting environment. The AWS team worked with the University’s management and software development team to successfully migrate to this new environment. Silicon Overdrive continues to support and maintain the University of Pretoria’s new environment under a Managed Service Level Agreement.

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