Since migrating to the AWS Cloud, Peraton’s IT infrastructure costs have decreased by 17 percent while increasing performance. More than 100 servers were retired, and Peraton was able to see significant cost savings.
AWS
Sep 18, 2024
Peraton is a mission capability integrator and delivers enterprise IT around the world. They are also an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner with competencies in government, DevOps, and migration. Peraton’s IT infrastructure and technology strategy are designed to support the delivery of mission-critical services and solutions to its customers at a global scale.
Reducing cost through consolidation
After a series of merger and acquisition activities, Peraton had multiple data centers with leases that were ending by the end of 2022. Having already been integrated with AWS, Peraton found AWS suited their needs with greater agility for cloud migration, the lowest cost per gigabyte for the performance, and ease of management (operational efficiency). The challenge was not only in the timeline but also in that these data centers were from once disparate companies, which made it difficult to manage or move at scale.
Despite the challenges and complexity, leadership sponsored the initiative with a focus on cost savings. They were looking to reduce their capital expense investment and have greater control over their operational expense outlay. On the business side, financial planning shifted from managing long-term contracts to building around a pay-as-you-go financial model.
The timeline dictated strong organization, both in execution and planning. Following AWS guidance for accelerating cloud adoption, Peraton identified an executive sponsor in their chief information officer (CIO) at the time and put together the team that would actually execute the migration. Then, they got to work assessing what was needed.
