Using AWS, MiHIN can scale without limit to support increasing volumes of patient information from healthcare providers and payers. “We’re that we can process the 12 million patient health information messages we receive every week, and accommodate a growing number of messages, because we can use AWS to easily scale our network to support higher data volumes,” says Pletcher.

MiHIN saves money by no longer paying to maintain collocated hardware in data centers. “We had money trapped in hardware and maintaining that hardware, as well as software licenses for virtual machines and management tools,” Pletcher says. “Those costs are now greatly reduced in the AWS Cloud. We have adapted our business model to reflect our move to the cloud, which gives us much more control over our costs.”

Because the organization’s IT staff no longer spends time managing and maintaining hardware in a data center, they can concentrate more on business growth. “We have freed up our internal teams from traditional data-center management so they can focus more on value-creating activities,” says Seggie. “As a result, we can keep up with the growth in demand for new services we’re seeing from our customers. We’ve been able to capture many new opportunities, due in great part to the time savings and cost savings we have experienced by moving to AWS.”

Previously, when MiHIN wanted to create and test a new service, it had to spend time and money acquiring the needed resources. “We have a new level of flexibility in the cloud. Before, we always had to procure servers and storage to add more capacity for new services,” says Pletcher. “That whole process would take a month or longer.

Using AWS, we can spin up a new service the same day it’s requested. And we can shut it down quickly if it’s not the right idea. Using the AWS Cloud, we don’t have to pay for overengineering an environment to get the flexibility we need. Our business can ebb and flow as demand dictates. We’re a much more responsive and agile organization using AWS, and that helps us grow our organization.”