CASE STUDY

An online education company migrates to AWS

Client: Stride

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For-profit education company

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Employees

At a glance

Challenge

How can an online education company efficiently scale and migrate its data infrastructure?

Result

Pariveda designed an innovative, multi-phased plan to move Stride’s entire infrastructure to AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Impact

Stride migrated its data tier away from expensive licensed-based solutions and took advantage of AWS’s native solutions to save money and improve reliability.

Stride, Inc., is a $2B for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curricula. It is designed as an alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar education for kindergarten through 12th grade. The company is also moving into adult education to expand its presence.

Pariveda helped an online education company migrate its data and emerge successfully from the pandemic.

Stride was spending millions of dollars on their own data centers and licensing while suffering from periodic outages, IT burnout, and costly monitoring of on-prem hardware. With Pariveda’s help, Stride saw an opportunity to improve performance, scalability, productivity, and reduce costs by migrating its infrastructure to AWS.

How Pariveda helped implement a multi-phased plan to move Stride’s entire infrastructure to AWS:

Pariveda advised Stride over the approach and leveraged the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, AWS landing zones, Pariveda’s Pain/Gain Assessment Framework, and maturity models to prioritize workloads.
These workloads would exist as a hybrid on-prem/AWS solution until the migration was complete. Pariveda designed the network infrastructure to support this goal.
Pariveda took a combination of approaches ranging from re-platforming solutions to refactoring them to take advantage of cloud native performance. In addition to the migration, Pariveda advised Stride leadership and provided management support to help with the coordination, prioritization, architecture, and planning for the AWS migration.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented demand for online education platforms.

Due to early investments in a scalable solution, Stride has been able to adapt and meet a spike in demand. Stride is now able to migrate its data tier away from expensive licensed-based solutions and take advantage of AWS native solutions to save money and improve reliability. In addition, Stride now experiences far fewer outages and risks by relying on AWS automation and disposable infrastructure, so that their end user is rarely impacted by service disruptions.