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“ After that success of moving terabytes of data overnight , we were no longer cloud-shy .” cloud , to host API services for its web portal and app and to run other mission-critical applications .
By the end of 2021 , JPS had increased its cloud presence by over 90 % as a result of its newfound confidence in AWS .
Improving elasticity and reducing costs on AWS
JPS uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ), a web service that provides secure , resizable compute capacity in the
Running applications in the cloud has resulted in massive cost savings because it has virtually eliminated the need to reinvest in on-premises infrastructure and to pay licensing costs .
JPS also migrated its database to Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ) – a managed service that makes it easy to set up , operate and scale a relational database in the cloud – to run one of seven relational database engines .
One of the company ’ s largest collections of data is its PDF bills archive . On AWS , it could cost-effectively store bills from as early as 2005 .
“ Managing on-premises databases proved to be cumbersome and , at times , expensive ,” said Hamilton . “ Migrating to AWS has minimized time spent on maintenance and reduced costs by more than 40 % compared to our customer-based solutions .”
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