Mission Category: Citizen Services

Business Challenge

MoW’s legacy NAS storage reached 180% utilization across ~32TB, affecting 600–700 users. Problems included:

• No encryption (data at rest / in transit)
• Unreliable legacy backup (Networker)
• Failover limitations and replication issues
• Severe performance degradation during peak load
• No downtime window for upgrades
• Annual data growth of 5–10%

MoW required a secure, scalable, cloud-native storage modernization.

AWS-Based Solution

Migration to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with:

• Multi-AZ high-availability architecture
• AD integration for unified access control
• AES-256 encryption
• CloudSync supporting zero downtime migration
• Automated snapshots, AWS Backup
• Intelligent tiering to reduce costs

Outcomes

• Sub-millisecond latency
• 99.99% availability
• 35% cost reduction
• Zero downtime migration
• Standardized SMB access
• Architecture ready for multi-year data growth

AWS Services

FSx ONTAP, IAM, AD, KMS, CloudSync, AWS Backup, CloudWatch, DataSync, BlueXP