Regional Health System Cuts Infrastructure Costs by 42% on AWS
A 12-hospital health system migrated 380+ workloads to AWS GovCloud with a HIPAA-compliant data lake — slashing spend while improving reliability.
A 12-hospital regional health system was operating on aging on-premises infrastructure with rising maintenance costs, repeated audit findings, and limited capacity to support growing data volumes from EHR, imaging, and IoMT devices. Leadership needed to modernize without disrupting clinical operations or putting HIPAA compliance at risk.
Apptad designed and executed a phased migration to AWS GovCloud, wave-planning workloads using AWS Migration Hub and the well-architected framework. We built a HIPAA-compliant data lake on Amazon S3 + Lake Formation, implemented automated compliance monitoring with AWS Config and Security Hub, and stood up a managed services model with 24/7 SOC and FinOps governance.
380+ workloads migrated over 18 months with zero unplanned downtime. Annual infrastructure spend dropped 42%, audit findings related to infrastructure were cleared, and clinical analytics workloads that previously took hours now run in minutes — supporting a new sepsis-prediction program clinical leaders had been waiting two years to enable.
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“Apptad ran the migration end-to-end. They embedded with our team, owned the hard decisions, and gave us a cloud foundation we now build everything on.”
