Higher-ed institution cuts infra costs 25% via Azure containerization.

# EdTech Customer Story — 25% cost reduction

**Industry:** EdTech
**Cloud:** Azure
**Outcome:** 25% cost reduction

## Summary
Azure DevOps CI/CD and cloud containerization delivered horizontal scalability and on-demand environments for an education provider.

## The Challenge
A higher-education institution was running up against rising infrastructure costs and legacy systems badly in need of modernization. They wanted to move databases to the cloud, stand up real continuous integration and deployment, and stop hand-administering VMs.They also needed dynamic scaling to handle peak demand periods — but internal expertise on Azure DevOps and .NET Core was thin, and semester traffic spikes were already straining the legacy setup.

## The Solution
CloudHedge Cruize set up CI/CD workflows on Azure DevOps pipelines, enabling continuous release deployment with real-time monitoring. Automated pipelines served UAT and demo environments, letting the team deploy any version on demand instead of scheduling deployment windows.Cloud containerization and Linux-based deployments gave the platform horizontal scalability for demand spikes. The whole automation surface slotted into the client's existing build and release processes, freeing developers from deployment concerns and making the infrastructure self-serve.

## The Outcome
A 25% cost reduction from right-sizing the containerized footprint, with automated deployments that no longer depend on specialized administrators. The team's .NET Core migration completed in weeks through a semi-automated approach.Monitoring is now unified behind one interface, horizontal scaling absorbs traffic surges, and developers push code instead of raising tickets — a meaningfully modern DevOps posture for an institution that started the project without Azure depth.


## Stack
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- .NET Core
- Linux
- Containers
- CI/CD



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