ISC migration to AWS

Summary

Integrity Systems Company (ISC) have embarked on a journey to migrate Meat and Livestock Australia's workloads into Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of an ongoing strategy of digital transformation. 

Objectives

The purpose of this project was to:

• complete a migration of all ISC Production and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environments to the AWS platform
• plan and build of all production and UAT related environments, accounts and infrastructure including:
  • National Livestock Identification System (NLIS)
  • Electronic National Vendor Declaration (eNVD)
  • Livestock Data Link (LDL)
  • Single Sign On (SSO)
• deliver configuration and access documentation for the AWS infrastructure and account structure
• set up and configuration of CloudWatch activations and alerts as defined during design
• network and infrastructure optimization to support performance requirements.

Key findings

The ISC data was succesfully transfered to the AWS platform, which has resulted in:

• better and faster response time
• a system that is scalable for future growth
• a significantly higher security standard.

Benefits to industry

The AWS platform provides:

• better and faster response time
  • positive user feedback from ISC business and customer service calls
  • large data processing jobs once taking 6-8 hours, now down to 20 minutes or less
• a significantly higher security standard
• more reliatbility with High Availability Architecture
  • this is a technology design which allows our applications and databases to be replicated across multiple data centres so that we can survive a total loss of any one data centre without user impact.
• Scalable for future growth
  • now no longer relying on any large capital assets, we can almost instantly scale up and down based upon capacity or performance needs, with much more granular control over cost.

Further information

For further information, visit the ISC infrastructure upgrade support page.