PeopleSoft on AWS

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses as web services—now commonly known as cloud computing.

AWS has been at the forefront when it comes to providing a technologically advanced and stable cloud services.

One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace upfront capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.

Today, AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

PeopleSoft has traditionally been an on-premise application but lately, a lot of businesses have already moved their PeopleSoft application to or are planning to move their PeopleSoft application to Cloud with AWS in particular. Some of the large organizations running PeopleSoft on AWS include California State University, Arizona State University, University of Michigan etc.

Running PeopleSoft application offers several advantages. For example:

• Eliminate long procurement cycles: The bigger an organization is, the longer it takes even to add capacity or get a new server. In AWS, it takes just a few minutes. Similarly, if you don't need those many resources, you can also scale down in a matter of minutes.
  
• Adjust capacity according to software development cycle: With AWS, you can adjust capacity to match your current needs with ease. You can additional servers only during the QA testing phase or implementation phase.
• AWS offers built-in disaster recovery solutions to execute your business data continuity plans at lower comparative costs, which allows you to benefit from an on-demand model while always having the optimal amount of data redundancy.
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto Recovery for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) capabilities reduce the impact of hardware failure impact and helps build a highly tolerant and resilient system with the highest service level agreement (SLA) available.
  
• High availability - With AWS you can achieve a 99.95% uptime by placing your data and your applications in multiple Availability Zones (locations)