Modernizing Early Childhood Education Operations with a Secure, Scalable AWS Platform

A leading U.S.-based early childhood education provider serving more than 200,000 children across 1,500+ childcare centers needed to modernize its technology environment as the organization expanded. The organization needed to improve enrollment, attendance, parent engagement, compliance and operational efficiency across its nationwide operations while maintaining strong child data protection and privacy standards. 

Accion Labs partnered with the organization to build a secure, cloud-native platform on AWS that unified core operational processes, streamlined parent interactions and supported scalable, data-driven operations across its network of childcare centers. 

Key improvements

• Streamlined enrollment, attendance, billing, and parent communication through a unified digital platform
• Reduced enrollment processing time through automated and digitized workflows
• Increased parent engagement with real-time communication, activity reporting, milestone tracking and mobile access
• Streamlined attendance and check-in/check-out processes
• Strengthened security, identity and access controls for child data and digital assets
• Improved compliance monitoring and reporting through automation
• Increased platform reliability and availability for business-critical operations
• Supported seasonal enrollment demand through elastic cloud infrastructure
• Accelerated delivery of new digital capabilities through a cloud-native microservices architecture
  
  

Technology Stack

Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Core Services:

• Amazon ECS (AWS Fargate)
• Amazon RDS Aurora MySQL
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon S3
• Amazon CloudFront
• Amazon Cognito
• AWS Lambda
• AWS WAF
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS IAM
• AWS KMS

Download the full case study to see how Accion Labs helped modernize early childhood education operations with AWS, streamline critical processes and build a secure, scalable foundation for continued growth.