Modernizing Digital Learning Operations for Scale, Reliability, and Student Experience

A leading higher education institution offering operating large-scale online degree and work-integrated learning programs needed to strengthen its digital learning environment as student enrollment and academic requirements grew. The institution needed greater infrastructure capacity, platform reliability, operational efficiency and security while maintaining reliable access to academic and student-facing applications.

Accion Labs partnered with the institution to modernize and optimize its AWS environment through cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, operational monitoring, security governance and platform optimization.

Key improvements

• Improved availability and reliability of academic and student-facing applications
• Greater infrastructure capacity to support enrollment growth and peak academic workloads
• Automated monitoring, alerting, and incident response to reduce operational risk
• Improved security, governance and compliance controls
• Better AWS resource utilization and cost management
• Reduced operational overhead through automation and standardized deployment processes
• Improved disaster recovery readiness and business continuity
• Greater visibility into infrastructure health, application performance and operational metrics
  
  

Technology Stack

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ
• Amazon S3
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Direct Connect
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudTrail
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Backup

Download the full case study to see how Accion Labs helped the institution modernize its AWS environment, strengthen digital learning operations and build a stronger foundation for continued growth.