“The acquisition of — and transition to — modern IT infrastructure is an important way the U.S. Digital Service can make a big impact for government agencies. This post is Part Two in a two-part series that explains how the Digital Services team at Veterans Affairs (DSVA) helped the agency become one of the earliest Federal government adopters of modern, cloud-based IT infrastructure….”
“…Through Vets.gov and Caseflow, the Digital Service team at VA (DSVA) became one of the earliest adopters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) within the agency. This experience meant that the Digital Service engineers were asked to review the VA’s Initial Cloud Reference Architecture for AWS. In the process of our review, we spotted an opportunity to streamline the architecture in such a way that VA could potentially save an estimated $100 million over the next 10 years…”
“Considering the magnitude and interconnectivity of these critical systems, VA needs a cloud architecture that ensures reliable and high bandwidth connectivity to the on-premise network. The cloud architecture also needs the flexibility and scalability to accommodate the variety of application frameworks found across VA’s applications.”
“…To meet its scalability requirement, VA is deploying the Transit Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) solution with AWS Direct Connect. This architecture follows the current industry best practice…” Read the full article here.
Source: Saving VA $100 Million Dollars – By Alan Ning, April 20, 2018. U.S. Digital Service.
