GoGuardian empowers K-12 leaders with effective tools for creating safe and engaging online learning environments
This leading provider of K-12 safety solutions multiplied its growth potential using AWS to provide more schools with critical safety insights based on student internet use.
Industry
Education
Challenge
GoGuardian wanted to reach millions of students to help keep them safe online, but didn’t have the scalability needed to support its growth goals.
Solutions Cloud Platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS)Our customer
GoGuardian is the leading provider of solutions to create engaging and safe K-12 learning environments. Its award-winning system of educational tools is purpose-built for school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while empowering educators to help keep students safe.
The obstacles they faced
For GoGuardian, student online data is the key to delivering safer learning environments. Its applications analyze billions of data points related to how students use the internet and how to prevent dangerous content from reaching students’ computers. Its solutions provide detailed analytic insights to teachers, administrators and IT, so they can identify and act on identified risks and improvement areas. GoGuardian wanted to expand its reach to millions of students but lacked the architecture to support scalability.
GoGuardian can now scale 100x without worrying about server overload.
How we helped
GoGuardian was able to move quickly to AWS thanks to a combination of AWS services, like Amazon Kinesis and Elastic Load Balancing, and Rackspace Technology cloud expertise. AWS's cloud-based infrastructure offers unparalleled availability, ease and convenience, delivering significant benefits to GoGuardian. Here are the core advantages AWS provides:
- Focus: Handing over the complexities of infrastructure management allows GoGuardian to avoid the heavy lifting involved with managing physical hardware, enabling a clearer focus on their core mission.
- Convenience: There's no need for GoGuardian to develop scalable systems from scratch. AWS offers pre-built, thoroughly tested solutions like Amazon Kinesis and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), ensuring reliability without the initial development overhead.
- Growth potential: With AWS, GoGuardian can effortlessly scale its operations by up to 100 times without the concerns of physical server capacity expansion. The idea of increasing a physical server farm by such a magnitude is no longer a daunting prospect.
- Speed: AWS's flexibility allows developers to quickly provision resources, with the capability to deploy up to 100 virtual machines (VMs) in as little as 30 seconds.
What we achieved together
AWS helps GoGuardian consistently and effectively surface the data schools need. As the company grows and its data volume increases, AWS has scaled alongside, keeping its data accessible and useful.
About Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology is a hybrid, multicloud solutions expert. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across AI, applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.
As a global hybrid, multicloud technology services pioneer, we deliver innovative capabilities to help customers build new revenue streams, increase efficiency and create incredible experiences. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent to deliver the best expertise to our customers. Everything we do is wrapped in Fanatical Experience® — our obsession with customer success that drives us to help each customer work faster, smarter and stay ahead of what’s next.
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