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Executive Summary

Security Benefit was founded in 1892 and has a nearly 129-year track record of delivering successful insurance services. To modernize its database infrastructure and improve operational efficiency, the company partnered with ITTStar for AWS managed database services for SQL Server. The engagement helped optimize database licensing, improve performance, strengthen security, and reduce operational costs while ensuring enterprise-grade database reliability.

Customer Challenge

The organization faced rising infrastructure costs, complex licensing requirements, and increasing maintenance overhead with its on-premises SQL Server environment. ITTStar addressed these challenges through SQL Server migration to AWS services, enabling lower infrastructure costs, simplified administration, improved scalability, and enhanced operational efficiency.

Partner Solution

ITTStar implemented database licensing optimization on AWS by migrating production SQL Server workloads to AWS AMI-based instances while right-sizing licensing for each environment. This approach reduced software licensing costs, improved database performance, and enabled more efficient cloud resource utilization without impacting business operations.

Why AWS?

AWS provides cloud database security and management services through continuous monitoring, automated scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, encryption, and multi-region support. These capabilities help organizations improve database reliability, strengthen security, and simplify ongoing database administration for mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Why Security Benefit chose ITTStar?

To solve this business challenge, ITTStar engaged with Security Benefit in a workshop to walk them through the process we were going to follow and the benefits the client will receive on migrating their database to the AWS cloud environment. ITTStar has worked on many similar migrations/rehosting in the past and this is combined with our strong skill set around the MS-SQL DBA team. Security Benefit chose ITTStar because of our experience, robust processes, and strong customer service ethos.

Results & Benefits:

• Accessibility - AWS has a resizable capacity to automate time-consuming administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
• Scalability - Cloud technologies offer greater flexibility as these can be scaled up on demand as per the company's requirements.
• Affordability - Pay only for the tools and services you use. AWS offers pay-as-you-go pricing. This means that the business only needs to pay for the services they need has used for a period. These AWS services are unique and cheaper than traditional computing methods.
• Security - AWS provides a highly secure infrastructure to ensure your data is protected. This is an end-to-end approach, so companies don't have to worry about their confidentiality and can focus on business development.
• Deployment - Cloud Database can be deployed over the internet without the need for a physical server and can be deployed in hours or days.