Service NSW's AWS Cloud transformation story
summary
Service NSW moves 200+ AWS accounts to a standardized platform and cuts spend by 40% in 18 months using cost visibility dashboards (QuickSight), right‑sizing, savings plans and RI management, plus automations that remove zombies and enforce guardrails via SCPs and Config rules. Network rework replaces many VGWs with a Transit Gateway with inspection VPC, claiming ~98% cost drop on on‑prem connectivity. Security centralizes findings in Security Hub, integrates GuardDuty and Shield Advanced, and automates restores of 100+ DBs in 3–4 hours.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Service NSW
- 1:48Service NSW overview and challenges
- 3:35Key challenges faced at scale
- 4:38Transformation strategy in six steps
- 6:23Cost optimization in action
- 8:28Security modernization journey
- 10:13Network transformation process
- 13:25Transformation results and outcomes
- 14:31Six key lessons learned
- 24:25Summary and toolkit resources
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