NSIA: Modernizing IT Infrastructure from Data Center to AWS Cloud
Industry: Financial Services / Sovereign Wealth
Challenge
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) sought to overcome data center inefficiencies — from scalability limits and high maintenance costs to compliance challenges. The goal: migrate seamlessly to AWS while preserving existing workloads to avoid business disruption.
Solution
Descasio delivered a secure, compliant, and scalable AWS environment mirroring NSIA’s infrastructure using:
- Amazon EC2 for workload hosting
- Amazon RDS for SQL for high-availability databases
- Amazon S3 + Veeam Backup for secure storage and data protection
- Amazon VPC for isolated networking
- AWS Application Migration Service for lift-and-shift operations
- AWS WAF, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch for governance, security, and monitoring
Results
- Zero downtime during production migration
- Secured a 1-year post-POC contract after proving resilience and cost efficiency
- Improved compliance with NDPR and governance regulations
- Optimized operational costs with right-sized EC2 and tiered S3
- Eliminated hardware refresh and CapEx costs
Lessons Learned
Customer-centric migration — maintaining NSIA’s architecture during transition — was key to building trust and achieving long-term adoption.
