Successful Peoplesoft Campus Solutions Migration to AWS

Our PeopleSoft Campus Solutions environment was migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the cloud over the weekend of June 7th. This migration also involved moving the Peoplesoft Gateway services that handle all of the communication between all three PeopleSoft systems, and with all of the 3rd party groups and outside entities these systems talk to. This project has spanned multiple years from its inception to this successful implementation and took an immense effort from many groups on campus. 

Key Benefits: Having the Student Administration system alongside the Finance and HR systems in the cloud will allow us to be more responsive in adjusting service levels for surges at key times of the year like advanced registration, as well as ensuring a very high level of reliability and resiliency that we have achieved with the previous migrations. 

Participants: The Middleware and Application Infrastructure group led this effort, along with those in Enterprise Systems, Networking, System Administration, Business Systems, Project Management, Business Intelligence, and all of the functional units across campus that helped with coordination and testing to help ensure as smooth a migration as possible. Coordinating this effort between new student orientations, final grade submissions, commencements, advanced registration, the new FAFSA, and more was a monumental effort that required functional users in many areas to complete testing over the weekend, for which we are thankful for their help and support.

Remarkably, the system was back up and functional in under 24 hours from the start of the migration on Friday evening. This is a tremendous and almost unheard-of success for such a major set of changes, typically requiring a large amount of outside consulting assistance.  

Please join us in thanking everyone who has spent a good portion of not only the past few months, but the past year and more on this initiative. 

Should you experience any issues with PeopleSoft following this move, please click here to submit a ticket to the team.