Maduka University Ekegbe – Cloud Migration and Infrastructure Optimization on AWS
Maduka University Ekegbe
About Maduka University Ekegbe
Maduka University Ekegbe is a new private university in Enugu, Nigeria, offering a growing range of academic programs to a rapidly expanding student population.
Industry
Education
Location
Nigeria
Use Cases
Cloud Migration, Infrastructure Optimization, Governance, DevOps
Overview
Transnet Cloud partnered with Maduka University Ekegbe, a new private university in Enugu, Nigeria, to migrate its infrastructure from Microsoft Azure to AWS, optimizing resource utilization, reliability, and scalability to support a growing student population.
The Challenge
As a new private university experiencing rapid enrollment growth, Maduka University Ekegbe's Azure-based infrastructure suffered from inefficient resource utilization and limited scalability, putting the reliability of academic portals and administrative systems at risk during peak registration and traffic periods.
Proposed Solution & Architecture
Transnet Cloud designed a right-sized, well-governed AWS architecture to replace the university's Azure environment.
Compute & Migration
Amazon EC2
Dedicated-tenancy, Linux, t3.medium instances powering the university portal, right-sized for predictable academic workloads
Storage, DNS & Monitoring
Amazon S3
Durable storage for academic records, application assets, and backups
Amazon Route 53
DNS management for the university portal with health-checked routing
Amazon CloudWatch
Infrastructure and application monitoring with alarms across the environment
Governance & Cost Control
AWS Control Tower
Multi-account governance guardrails established early to prevent configuration drift as the environment scales
Outcomes & Success Metrics
Measurable performance, scalability, and cost gains for a fast-growing university.
Portal performance improved 65% following migration from Azure to right-sized AWS compute
Infrastructure scaled to support 4x user growth with zero interruption during peak enrollment periods
Monthly cloud costs decreased 35% through resource optimization
Zero configuration drift incidents since implementing AWS Control Tower governance guardrails
Lessons Learned
Migrating a live academic portal from Azure to AWS mid-session risked disrupting student and staff access during peak registration windows.
Transnet Cloud established governance guardrails via AWS Control Tower from day one, preventing configuration drift as new accounts and services were provisioned during the migration.
This early-governance-first approach is now applied to every new Transnet Cloud migration engagement, keeping multi-account environments consistent as they scale.
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